Students at the University of California, Berkeley are furious after finding out that their on-campus bank may have financial holdings in prisons associated with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, better known as ICE.
According to an editorial in The Daily Californian, students are calling on Berkeley to completely sever all ties with “Bank of the West,” the official on-campus bank whose parent company is BNP Paribas, the world’s 8th largest bank with holdings in 75 countries.
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