Posted on 04/16/2025 5:18:48 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The Santa Clara County Office of Education and the Santa Clara County Board of Education are co-sponsoring a California bill that would establish school campuses as safe havens from immigration enforcement activity, as fears around deportations and arrests ramp up in Bay Area communities amid the Trump administration’s crackdown on noncitizens.
Introduced by Assemblymember Al Muratsuchi, a Democrat who represents Torrance, AB 49 — the California Safe Haven Schools Act — would prohibit school employees from allowing immigration officers on campuses without a warrant or approval from school officials. The bill would also require immigration officers who are allowed on school campuses to be restricted to areas where students are not present.
While rumors have circulated about immigration officers’ presence on college and K-12 campuses, there have been no confirmed reports in the Bay Area or California.
“All children have a constitutional right to attend public schools, regardless of immigration status,” said Assemblymember Muratsuchi, chair of the assembly education committee, in a statement. “Unfortunately, the threat of federal immigration officials coming onto school grounds to detain undocumented students or family members casts a shadow of fear over all California students. Students cannot learn if they are living in fear of being deported or separated from their family members. This bill is necessary because children should not be afraid to come to school and parents should not be afraid to send their children to school.”
The bill comes as President Donald Trump has promised mass deportations of immigrants in the country without permission.
The administration has also targeted people living in the country legally. Trump officials have canceled hundreds of international students’ visas for reasons ranging from traffic violations to political activities. The Department of Homeland Security and the IRS also agreed to share immigrants’
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Supremacy clause in the Constitution. State law cannot be above federal law.
So...tax dollars to protect illegals...
Just cut the Federal dollars to any school that educate illegals. If a school has 50% illegal students cut 50% of Federal funding.
Close the public schools. They do far more harm than good.
Protecting the borders and purging illegal aliens is one of the Constitutionally enumerated powers of the federal government.
It’s their job, not the states.’
Outrageous!
I couldn’t agree more!
Yes! California is heading to zero fed funds it seems
Since schools are a “safe haven”, I assume there will be a huge increase in 26-year-old “students”.
And they have only themselves to blame, the voters in Commiefornia.
Illinois thinks they’re above the law too.
You have to be kidding. How many issues today do we see that that clause is the opposite of reality. Take drugs, for example.
Good point. But the billionaires would fund even worse indoctrination “free schools.”
What a tough spot for a teacher- Violate state law or violate federal law. Pick your poison.
EC
Al just made that up.
“Supremacy clause in the Constitution. State law cannot be above federal law.”
Blue states don’t recognize that.
These people worked so hard under Obama to establish the principle that States cannot have an immigration policy and that immigration law enforcement is the exclusive responsibility of the Executive Branch. Multiple Supreme Court rulings have nailed the door shut on this one.
What goes around, comes around.
These people worked so hard under Obama to establish the principle that States cannot have an immigration policy and that immigration law enforcement is the exclusive responsibility of the Executive Branch. Multiple Supreme Court rulings have nailed the door shut on this one.
What goes around, comes around.
That would be a federal crime, but please, go ahead and make Homan’s day.
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