Posted on 02/10/2026 8:34:32 AM PST by artichokegrower
Days after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested a Watsonville resident last month, social media circles in the Pajaro Valley erupted in outrage over a pro-ICE Facebook comment by a teacher intern at a Watsonville elementary school.
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political discrimination- aint that agin the law?
Watsonville is that shanty of a town housing all the illegal mexican strawberry and artichoke pickers that you pass on the way to Monterey.
wonder what would happen IF Florida were to start firing any teachers that espouse ‘Ice Out’?
Here we go...
That is Castroville, a tad south.
Watsonville is Gentrifying like Los Banos, Salinas to a Certain Degree, Tracy and Patterson due to everyone having to live an hour-1.5 hours away from where they work in San Jose, just to survive.
Gilroy and Hollister were the first targets of that back 15 years ago or so and are just as bad as San Jose
Love America? Don’t admit it or you’re through
I grew up in Monterey, I wouldn’t have been caught dead in Salinas, even back then.
Thanks for the correction. Its been almost 10 years since escaping the Bay Area. I dont miss it.
Not normally, illegal, no.
But it is illegal for a state actor like a school, which cannot censor political speech pursuant to the First Amendment.
...the 2026 COVID-style authoritarianism. To hell with that!
From a recent Watsonville Pajaro Valley Unified School District board meeting:
Trustee Joy Flynn, for example, assured the Jewish community that there was no hint of antisemitism in CRE’s work while simultaneously claiming that the Jewish community has economic power and white privilege that they are not using to benefit the wider community. Trustee Gabriel Medina went further, addressing Jewish community members in the audience: “You only show up to meetings when it’s beneficial for you, so you can tell brown people who they are…the lies that you spewed here tonight were insane … if you want to continue to be segregationists like you have in the past …”
A teacher in PVUSD said, in regard to antisemitism in the CRE curriculum, “It would be disrespectful to me, to every teacher who has been in this training, to every student, if you were to say ‘We don’t believe you, we believe this one minority’ and maybe the fact they gave money to certain campaigns helps.”
But don’t publicly support ICE or you will be cancelled
Even when I was stationed at the tiny little port of Moss Landing that whole valley was Norte Mexicano. That was over 30 years ago. I doubt there is a single white person anywhere in that valley. All the stores are Mexican, all the signs are in Spanish. But that was also the time when Mexicans use to come legally on temp work visas to pick the strawberries and other crops and leave. Now. I won’t be surprised if he is lynched and fed to the sharks. And most likely the teacher is “ Latino. “
They are going to make her rich.
Thanks- I figured beign state run they can’t discriminate based on constitutional rights, ie 1’st amendment, religion, orientation etc-
article says “Political affiliation is NOT a protected class”
I had run into that before - but it seems cali left themselves an out in order to be able to fire someone for political beliefs inthat they say an employee may not use their job to espouse political beliefs (IF I’m reading that right?)
And you are correct.
It also appears (from posts above) that CA has its own protections that apply to private employers.
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