Rundown Brahma Blotter

These incidents were reported between Feb. 23 - March 4

Reported by: Vanessa Arredondo Randi

Love, Jose Herrera

02/27

•Student Incident

Two male students were fighting in the Industrial Tech room 3805 at 8:10 p.m.

Marc Dionne/ Roundup

Healthcare professionals answered student questions at the healthcare job fair in The Great Hall on March 1 said.

02/28

The Pierce College sheriff’s deputies said that the student population need not worry about having their immigration status questioned.

“They don't need to be concerned about that,” Sheriff’s Deputy Al Guerrero said. “I don't care where you are from or what you do; if you need help, we will help you.”

In 1979, Los Angeles Police Chief Daryl Gates signed Special Order 40 which prohibited the Los Angeles Police Department from stopping

This order was implemented to reduce the hesitation and fear immigrant people might have when reporting crimes or acting as witnesses.

With this order, Los Angeles became a sanctuary city.

According to the Migration Policy Institute, 1 million illegal immigrants live in Los Angeles. For decades, the county has imposed “sanctuary” laws that show tolerance and leniency to the immigrant community.

However, President Trump has announced his intentions to cut federal funding to cities and states

The end of the three-year LAH3C grant term does not necessarily mean the added courses will go away.

“I’m not sure about Pierce, but all these other colleges are going to continue to offer those courses,” Calpito said. “I know Pierce is trying to do that, but they just need to figure out where it’s going to fit in with the health-science curriculum.”

Calpito said that some things to consider are how much the courses that refuse to assist Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. However, Oleas said, these threats will not deter Pierce’s efforts to protect its students.

“Los Angeles is a sanctuary city. Pierce is in the middle of that,” Oleas said. “We are here to protect our students because they are here to change their lives, to improve their living conditions, to attain knowledge, to get a profession, to better themselves so that they can become important members of our society.”

Maria Bates, co-chair of the Diversity Committee at Pierce, began circulating a letter in late November impacted the student population and how effective the courses were.

“The decisions have to be made if it does have validity. Does it have the necessity to serve the student population here,” Mellinger said. “If it does, then we’ll probably take it on. If it doesn’t, then it may have to be a nice experiment.” Pierce will continue to host events like this last one; however, those will be funded by the school, Turcotte imploring LACCD to “define our nine Los Angeles Community Colleges as sanctuaries, as safe places for the continued education of all students.”

The Pierce College website recently launched a webpage that provides links and information to offcampus and on-campus resources for undocumented students.

Since the election, LAPD, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, Gov. Jerry Brown, the CSU Chancellor and the LACCD Chancellor, have come forward to show their support for immigrants and immigrant students.

“They are coming here to get an education and the students shouldn't be afraid,” Oleas said. “The only