"The University of Pennsylvania will continue to advocate passionately for comprehensive immigration reform," the email said. It said that Gutmann, as Penn's president and past president of the Association of American Universities, "has repeatedly communicated to our nation's leaders her support for undocumented students, the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act, and the continuation and expansion of DACA," President Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy. It said the university "will continue to forcefully speak out in support of these critical issues."