Stonegarden

From CalMatters: ...Operation Stonegarden, a grant managed by the Department of Homeland Security, allocates an average of $11 million each year for California law enforcement agencies to work with U.S. Customs and Border Protection and its subagency Border Patrol on border security missions. Dozens of police forces throughout the state receive the grant, including campus police at UC San Diego, a recipient since around 2012.

On Feb. 10, a CalMatters article explained how UC San Diego police used the grant to patrol sections of the coastline near campus, which quickly set off an uproar among students who felt it placed undocumented and international students at risk. By Feb. 26, after students emailed complaints and threatened to hold a public rally, student Aryan Dixit said the campus police chief, Lamine Secka, agreed to leave the grant program in a one-on-one meeting. 

...University vice chancellor, Niraj Dangoria, stated in [an] email that university police have not participated in Stonegarden activities since 2024, which the university’s Communications team affirmed. The 2024 funding agreement states operations would last from April 2025 to February 2027...

Full story at https://calmatters.org/education/2026/07/uc-san-diego-homeland-security-border-patrol-students-protest/.