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Lily Eskelsen García: Children are fearful to go to school as a result of immigration raids
National Education Association ^ | February 10, 2017 | NEA President Lily Eskelsen García

Posted on 02/11/2017 1:31:59 PM PST by mdittmar

NEA President: immigration raids send shock waves among students and families


WASHINGTON - February 10, 2017 -

Reports from news media and immigrant rights advocates indicate new Trump administration immigration enforcement raids are underway in several states, including Arizona, California, Texas, North Carolina, and Georgia. Advocates and media outlets are reporting chaos in schools and communities affected by the raids. In a North Carolina community, students witnessed arrests. Other communities are reporting that immigration agents are following schools buses.

The following joint statement can be attributed to NEA President Lily Eskelsen García and Texas State Teachers Association President Noel Candelaría:

"Children are fearful to go to school. Parents are desperately trying to find guardians for their children in the event they are detained or deported. We've seen this before. And it's happening again. This time, it is happening in the middle of the night or as students load up buses and head to school. This time it is happening without any oversight, review, or due process.

"The current raids are beyond reprehensible, they are inhumane, and they are a deliberate and coordinated attack on those who come to America seeking safety, freedom, and opportunity, and, in the process, make America a better country.

"These shocked and frightened families are our friends and our neighbors. Our students are collateral damage as a result of these raids. The heightened environment of intimidation and fear in immigrant neighborhoods is carried into classrooms by traumatized students.

"As the Trump administration threatens our students, their families, and our way of life, we will not stay silent. As families turn to their childrens educators for solace and advice, we are going accelerate ongoing efforts to create and implement commonsense policies like our public school safe zones where all students are welcome. Public school safe zones allow school boards to go on the record to that they won't allow immigration enforcement agents into their schools without a proper review process and that they are committed to the protection of student privacy via practices ensuring that no data is being collected with respect to students immigration status or place of birth.

"We call on the Trump administration and Immigration and Customs Enforcement to put an immediate stop to these abhorrent immigration raids in our communities."

For more information about NEA's Public School Safe Zones, please click here.
To learn more about our partners Know Your Rights campaign, please click here.

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Keep up with the conversation at #EducationNotDeportation #StopTheRaids

The National Education Association is the nations largest professional employee organization, representing more than 3 million elementary and secondary teachers, higher education faculty, education support professionals, school administrators, retired educators and students preparing to become teachers. Learn more at www.nea.org.


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To: VRWCarea51

Guess the parents could homeschool until they get deported.

Oh, wait, most of the illegals are illiterate in their own language.


21 posted on 02/11/2017 1:45:53 PM PST by angry elephant (My MAGA cap is from a rally in Washingon state in May 2016)
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To: mdittmar

Next the NEA will be seeking “Sanctuary status” for all public schools!


22 posted on 02/11/2017 1:46:46 PM PST by Brandonmark (Made America Great Again! 11.08.2016 - A DAY OF RENEWAL)
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To: mdittmar

Man, once all the illegals are purged from our schools, I’ll bet we’ll save a bundle on taxes. Don’t schools get paid by the student?


23 posted on 02/11/2017 1:46:47 PM PST by Mr. Douglas (Best. Election. EVER!)
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To: Paladin2

I hadn’t thought of that.


24 posted on 02/11/2017 1:46:57 PM PST by mdittmar
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To: mdittmar

So even the kids know that they’re here illegally and could be deported.Nice.


25 posted on 02/11/2017 1:47:40 PM PST by Farmer Dean (168 grains of instant conflict resolution)
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To: mdittmar

good...... fear and lamentations and knashing of teeth...... just great!


26 posted on 02/11/2017 1:48:26 PM PST by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... Macroagression melts snowflakes)
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To: mdittmar

Awesome! They are now HomeSchooled and smarter.

Winning!


27 posted on 02/11/2017 1:48:54 PM PST by TheNext (REPEAL requires simple 50% Majority, not 60%)
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To: mdittmar

             

Just another reason for madre and padre to get on the bus and haul all their invader asses back where they came from before we do it for 'em.
28 posted on 02/11/2017 1:49:04 PM PST by tomkat
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To: mdittmar

GOOD

They shouldnt be here in the first place

And we sure as hell shouldn’t have to pay to try to “educate” (indoctrinate) them

Send them home where they belong . .


29 posted on 02/11/2017 1:49:55 PM PST by A_Former_Democrat ("Liberalism is a mental disorder" On FULL Display NOW BOYCOTT Mexico NFL PepsiCO Kellogg's)
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To: mdittmar

If you are illegal, go home and get a visa.

That is the law.

Get arrested, it may not happen. Life is choices and Barry Soerto lied to you.


30 posted on 02/11/2017 1:50:13 PM PST by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: mdittmar

I blame the teachers and the parents. Two weeks ago I spotted a Beverly Hillbilly style stacked truck heading to the boarder. I respect them for knowing that times are changing and for taking charge of their situation before it was decided for them.

They have had 3 months to prepare. The family in the truck was wiser than their fellow immigrants and will probably have an easier time of what is a difficult situation I’m sure


31 posted on 02/11/2017 1:51:58 PM PST by Suz in AZ
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To: Paladin2

Mexico is obviously incapable of normal governance.

They have all the resources in the world but maintain a peasant class that is encouraged to leave.

F Mexico.


32 posted on 02/11/2017 1:54:00 PM PST by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: mdittmar

Any honest reporter could ask the enabler how many legal immigrants have been raided. We know the answer so there won’t be any questions along that line from the Democratic Media.


33 posted on 02/11/2017 1:56:11 PM PST by Kudsman (Trump or bust 2016!)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

There’s a guy from Mexico who sells cheese door to door. He dresses very neatly until he is done selling the cheese and then changes into rags for returning to Mexico. When asked why he said the Federales will take everything you have on you if you look prosperous.


34 posted on 02/11/2017 1:58:41 PM PST by tiki
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To: mdittmar

There are many schools in Japan where, if your parents are immigrants, you are technically NOT legally required to go to school.

I’m not saying that’s good, ok?

My point is that Japan distinguishes between people who REALLY BELONG THERE and those who do not.

And THERE ***IS*** SUCH A THING.


35 posted on 02/11/2017 2:02:14 PM PST by gaijin
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To: eyedigress
Their mother country (Mexico) that they love sooooooo much, should take them in, feed them, clothe them, educate them and ensure they are in good health.

Then, when these needs are met and they get jobs in Mexico, they can send money back to the USA to repay their dept to us.

36 posted on 02/11/2017 2:02:54 PM PST by KittenClaws ( Normalcy Bias. Do you have it?)
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To: mdittmar
Better make a run for the border before the Iceman gets em'!


37 posted on 02/11/2017 2:03:02 PM PST by Iron Munro (If Illegals voted Rebublican 66 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall!")
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To: mdittmar

All out of sympathy.


38 posted on 02/11/2017 2:03:44 PM PST by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

If they are illegal they should not be in school. Time to self deport.


39 posted on 02/11/2017 2:04:32 PM PST by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative.)
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To: mdittmar

It’s become difficult to do things in the legal and right way. obama spent 8 years in lawlessness and those who benefited want it to stay that way.


40 posted on 02/11/2017 2:04:47 PM PST by frnewsjunkie
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