Lordsburg Liberation, a grassroots organization on campus aiming to unify the University through anti-imperialist activism, organized a walk out from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Wednesday.
The student-run grassroots organization Lordsburg Liberation urges the University to reform its inadequate ICE policy in response to escalating aggression of immigration enforcement in the surrounding areas.
After nearly two years serving as interim president, Risa Dickson was officially named 20th president of the University of La Verne earlier this month.
Assembly member Matt Haney, D-San Francisco, recently introduced Assembly Bill 1633, which would impose a 50% tax on the for-profit corporations that run U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, detention facilities in California.