Because immigration and customs agents are fanning throughout the country to carry out noisy arrests of migrants, for which President Donald Trump called for, local and state officials are developing their own directives for support-or perhaps confirmed potential ice visits in public schools.
Trump administration Was announced last month that it will reverse conductivity In place from 2011, which restricted the arrests of migrants in “sensitive locations”, including schools, hospitals and places of worship.
In 2022, the latest numbers available, there were about 850,000 children in the country, it was illegal, According to Pew Research Center. Long -term federal policy from the US Education Department – supported by US Supreme Court – He says that all children, regardless of their or their parents’ immigration status, have the right to public primary and middle education.
Nevertheless, conservative countries signaled their readiness to cooperate with ice.
“Schools in Florida will cooperate with all law enforcement agencies, working on enforcing national provisions on illegal immigration and ensuring the safety of our schools,” said Sydney Booker, spokesman for the Florida Education Department, said The Florida Department of Education Democrat Tallahasee.
In Alabama, the state superintendent Eric Mackey released on Thursday statement This called the districts to “simply run school”, while reminding them that law enforcement agencies “should always be welcome on our campus”, after confirming their identity. The statement did not say that officers needed an order.
And the Oklahoma Education Council last week he voted Addencies a proposal that would require parents to report the immigration status of their and their child or provide evidence of citizenship while enrolling them in public schools. Profession first broken He is now going to the legislator through the Republican Superintendent Ryan Walters.
IN statement Published last week, Walters said that “schools are mutilated” by illegal immigration. According to Oklahoma’s statement, he would allow ice agents to schools: “Because we want to make sure that the deported parents will be combined with children again and supported families together.”
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Meanwhile, in democratic states, officials try to remind school leaders with the limits of ice authority.
New York Governor Kathy Hochul and prosecutor general – both Democrats – together with the state education for state education note Saying “they confirm that schools should remain a safe marinade, in which all students are welcome and provided free public education.” In general, the note says that law enforcement officers cannot question or remove a student from school real estate without parental consent, unless they have a court order or other legal order.
Published state of education illinois conductivity Calling local districts to develop the processes of handling all ICE requests. Oregon Education Council Tips issued In detail the state law of the sanctuary and the manner in which school leaders can answer the visit or questions of law enforcement agencies.
At the local level, some schools have already started to create their own rules. A group of public charter schools in Denver and Aurora in Colorado, he said “It would avoid the release of each student to ice without a clear legal requirement.”
Several state and local jurisdictions, including Chicago, explained to parents that ICE agents must have a court order signed by a judge to be admitted to school. The system “does not grant ICE agents to our schools on the basis of an administrative order, ice detention or other document issued by an agency enforcing immigration law”, district he said in a letter to families.
The unified school district of Los Angeles disseminated “Find out your rights” cards To support families know what they are required and not obliged to inform immigration officials. The Department of the School Police in Los Angeles also has I swear that he will not be involved or support in immigration.
Thomas Homan, duties of the director of ICE, said CNN Last week, his agency would not routinely invade schools, churches and hospitals, but “that” there is no protected marina for public security threats and national security threats. “
US Internal Security Department, which includes ICE, he said Federal legislators that billions of financing, resources and beds necessary to carry out a mass deportation campaign are lacking.
Among the uncertainty, some parents pulled their children out of school, said Viridiana Carrizales, founder and general director of Texas Immschols, a non-profit organization, which cooperates with school districts in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Texas to make them more welcome immigrant students.
“We saw and heard from districts that we cooperate with this, yes, they saw a decrease in presence and that they also saw families who are starting to withdraw their children from school,” said Carrizales.
“We want to make sure that children are still going to school. And if families do not perceive schools as safe places, it will definitely affect it. “
Adriana Rivera, communication director at Florida Immigrant Coalition, an organization of immigration, repeated these fears.
“Having children for such a possibility – regardless of their immigration status – that they can be racially or targeted, sends chills in parents’ spikes and rightly.”
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