Rising Immigrant Scholars through Education

The ASUC COVID-19 Financial Relief Committee met Saturday to discuss updates on the allocation of the COVID-19 Financial Relief Fund to various campus organizations.

Rising Immigrant Scholars through Education at Berkeley began an online fundraiser to raise money for its RISE Relief Fund to support undocumented students during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Undocumented Luis Mora was held in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody and detained at Otay Mesa Detention Center for two weeks and is now being featured in a documentary that will chronicle his experiences during and after detention.

After being released from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, custody Jan. 17, formerly detained UC Berkeley junior Luis Mora recently donated $8,500 in bond payments for the release of three other immigrant detainees from the same detention center.

As an immigration attorney for UC Berkeley's Undocumented Student Program, or USP, for more than two years, Lal provides legal services for hundreds of undocumented students at UC Berkeley and their families.

Campus junior Luis Mora was released Wednesday from Otay Mesa Detention Center after being held for more than two weeks by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE.

Following the detention of two UC students by Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, the California Latino Legislative Caucus wrote to ICE to request their release, according to a tweet published on Tuesday by Assemblymember Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher.

On Monday, several activists who were not affiliated with UC Berkeley or the Berkeley College Republicans built a wall out of cardboard bricks on Sproul Plaza, inciting a protest led by undocumented students.

Undocumented students asked Chancellor Nicholas Dirks for more financial support and advocacy during his ninth fireside chat Monday evening.