Federal immigration enforcement activity near North Carolina campuses has prompted campus leaders to issue guidance to anxious students and staff, highlighting immediate safety and legal support needs. Institutions are scrambling to provide know-your-rights resources and counseling as local enforcement activity raises enrollment and community-trust questions. Separately, student-voter advocates report that 2025’s political turbulence—new voter-suppression laws and heightened partisanship—created “trepidation” among underrepresented student voters, dampening outreach and turnout efforts. Organizers say legal uncertainty and fear of repercussions have made voter-engagement work more difficult on some campuses. College leaders and student-affairs offices now face parallel operational demands: bolster legal and mental-health resources for impacted students, and design voter-engagement approaches that account for heightened legal and political sensitivities.