'This money is tied ... to the abhorrent practice of separating families at the border': The University of California, Berkeley has provoked an investigation into a bank with loose ties to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement after the publication of a student op-ed calling for the end of the partnership. French bank BNP Paribas owns Bank of the West, a Berkeley bank with which UC Berkeley has a 10-year contract, according to Campus Reform.