Posted on 02/11/2017 1:31:59 PM PST by mdittmar
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."
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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.
Guess the parents could homeschool until they get deported.
Oh, wait, most of the illegals are illiterate in their own language.
Next the NEA will be seeking “Sanctuary status” for all public schools!
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?
I hadn’t thought of that.
So even the kids know that they’re here illegally and could be deported.Nice.
good...... fear and lamentations and knashing of teeth...... just great!
Awesome! They are now HomeSchooled and smarter.
Winning!
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 . .
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
All out of sympathy.
If they are illegal they should not be in school. Time to self deport.
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.
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