The Undergraduate Student Government senate passed senate bill 144-21, which incorporates the Undocumented Trojan Success Assembly, with 11 ayes Tuesday night at a special senate meeting over Zoom. Due to being absent from the meeting and not submitting a proxy vote, senator Ali Bhatti abstained.

$5,000 of executive funding is currently allocated to UTSA for the spring semester, president Brianna Sánchez said in a statement to the Daily Trojan.

UTSA previously passed the programming assembly vote of confidence with 32 out of 33 directors voting yes, chief programming officer Hunter Black said at the Dec. 3 senate meeting. During discussion on SB 144-21, Black said UTSA did “an amazing job” during its trial period, which began Aug. 26.

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“They fully have been passionate, driven and have a clear [vision] about what they want to see coming out of their assembly and what passions they really want to enact to support the Undocu+ community here on campus,” Black said.

Alexa Hernandez-Diaz, a co-executive director of UTSA, said it is currently a “crucial time” politically because policies that President-elect Donald Trump has campaigned on “directly affect” the UTSA community.

“Through our advocacy efforts, we want to make sure that our students feel as safe as ever and feel like they have a community,” Hernandez-Diaz said. “Having a platform, I think, is the first start for representation and for support, and just to centralize a lot of the resources that we aim to give to our students as well.”

Another goal of UTSA now that it has been incorporated is the creation of an Undocumented Trojan Resource Center, according to UTSA assistant director Melissa Paz-Flores.

Disclaimer: Melissa Paz-Flores is a former photographer for the Daily Trojan. Paz-Flores is no longer involved in the organization.