GoFundMe<\/a> has been created in addition to the fundraiser, which occurred from 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Oct. 4, with all proceeds going directly to support Barajas. The event was hosted only 10 minutes away from campus.<\/p>\nOrange County has a lengthy history of deportation cases, housing a sanctuary city \u2014 Santa Ana \u2014 with a relatively slow-moving court. As of July 2026, California ranked third in the nation for the highest number of migrants detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at 6,412.\u00a0<\/p>\n
30-year-old Barajas has lived in the U.S. for 22 years, having immigrated at the age of 8. In 2022, Barajas submitted a petition to the immigration court, which he was then notified that it was canceled.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was another administration back then. So now with this administration, they are going through everyone’s paperwork, as such as anyone who had any type of paperwork that’s been canceled,\u201d Barajas said. \u201cIt’s been processed from petitions to asylums through literally anything, and they’re like picking at it. So I spoke to different lawyers, and they told me \u2018your paperwork is one of the \u2014 you know, the bottom of the barrel and they found it.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Barajas, among other volunteers hosting the event, voiced concern over lack of direct action from campus administration.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI don’t see much when it comes to the president, you know. I don’t see much from (President Ronald) Rochon or things like that, speaking about these actual issues that are happening,\u201d Barajas said. \u201cI feel like there is no support.\u201d<\/p>\n
In April of 2025, the president\u2019s office released a statement to campus via email amid student visas being unexpectedly revoked at a rapid pace.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want to reaffirm Cal State Fullerton\u2019s commitment to supporting our immigrant and international Titans: you matter\u2026 Please be assured that Cal State Fullerton does not share information related to a student\u2019s immigration status or other confidential records unless legally required to do so,\u201d it reads.\u00a0<\/p>\n
After contacting the on-campus resource centers, Barajas and fellow Titans turned to the community. Volunteers made and sold an array of authentic foods and clothing while running pay-to-enter games. Friends of Barajas and campus peers organized the event in just five days.<\/p>\n
\u201cSeeing so many students come in and participate in the event and also be volunteers just shows me that there’s a really big community on campus who cares about this issue because, like we’ve mentioned, Jesus is not the only one going through these troubles,\u201d said Alexa Herrera, a fifth-year civil engineering center and community engagement student assistant for the Latinx resource center. \u201cWith the current administration, this is a reality for both students as well as people in our community, but not everybody has access to people who can help fundraise and people who can help support them.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The CSU hosts the largest undocumented student population of any university system in the country, at an estimated 10,000. As the county faces ongoing, growing action in immigration court, volunteers at the event echoed a shared advocacy for the myriad community members affected, calling for any level of action.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cMaking events like this help bridge the gap between people who may not know that their activism can be as simple as coming to an event, enjoying an activity that they already like to do with their friends, and then that money going directly towards mutual aid,\u201d said Nina Ho, who organized the activities and communications for this event.\u00a0<\/p>\n
CSUF students can seek support through Counseling and Psychological Services and Titans Dreams Resource Center<\/a> on campus. Employees and staff can find support at MyLifeMatters Care Center.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jesus Barajas, a fourth-year psychology major at CSUF and Mexican immigrant, recently received a letter stating he would…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,3005,190439,18248,14,190438],"class_list":["post-487538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-csuf","tag-csuf-students","tag-gofundme","tag-immigration","tag-jesus-barajas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}