Hasta la vista, baby
Via Campus Reform:
University of California, Berkeley officials are scrambling to assist an illegal immigrant student who was recently detained by U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
A spokeswoman for UC Berkeley told Campus Reform that the university is aware that Luis Mora has been detained, and is “seeking to confirm all the facts of this distressing news.”
“We are looking into the matter to determine everything we can do to support and assist the student during this difficult time,” she wrote. Declining to provide any further details, she indicated that Berkeley has “processes in place,” including attorney services, to support students “managing immigration issues.”
According to a Facebook post by Mora’s girlfriend, Jaleen Udarbe, San Diego Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) agents stopped the pair at an immigration checkpoint while they were walking home on the night of December 30. Udarbe reported that Mora was “honest with border patrols about his situation and told them that he is an undocumented student at UC Berkeley.”
According to Udarbe’s account, the agents then took Mora into custody and brought him to Brown Field Border Patrol Station, which sits just across the border from Tijuana, Mexico, later holding him at a nearby park before transferring him to a detention center.