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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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1 posted on 02/11/2017 1:31:59 PM PST by mdittmar
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Tell them , its OK not to go to school today
It's SATURDAY !
2 posted on 02/11/2017 1:34:18 PM PST by Tilted Irish Kilt (Muslim & Spanish migrants are like Kudzu--> designed to overload the system= Cloward-Piven)
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To: mdittmar

That’s ok. Trump supporters are afraid to go to school too.


3 posted on 02/11/2017 1:34:31 PM PST by rey
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Put their butts in school in Mexico and they won’t have to be scared....


4 posted on 02/11/2017 1:36:38 PM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: mdittmar

they can go to school in their home countries without fear!


5 posted on 02/11/2017 1:36:44 PM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (Make America Great Again !)
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To: rey

Why are they fearful? Because they know that they are illegal. Time to pack and go back to Mexico. The gravy train has left the station.


6 posted on 02/11/2017 1:36:53 PM PST by Kozy (new age haruspex)
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To: mdittmar
NEA - the same educational association that reprinted Saul Alynski's books,
and told teachers to implement Alynski's tactics in the classroom.
7 posted on 02/11/2017 1:37:06 PM PST by Tilted Irish Kilt (Muslim & Spanish migrants are like Kudzu--> designed to overload the system= Cloward-Piven)
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Stop by their website and tell them to fo guck themselves.


8 posted on 02/11/2017 1:37:17 PM PST by stillfree? (Sooooo Deplorable, but more irredeemable.)
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To: mdittmar

Lesson learned: Don’t expose your children to situations where their parents are in a foreign nation illegally.


9 posted on 02/11/2017 1:37:38 PM PST by DoughtyOne (NeverTrump, a movement that was revealed to be a movement. Thank heaven we flushed!)
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The NEA has destroyed our youth for decades. It must be defunded and removed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Education_Association

[From 1989 through the 2014 election cycle, the NEA spent over $92 million on political campaign contributions, 97% of which went to Democrats.]
10 posted on 02/11/2017 1:37:41 PM PST by SaveFerris (Hebrews 13:2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for ... some have unwittingly entertained angels)
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The Stupid N.E.A. would never consider the reason their Teachers are overly stressed and without funding needed in the classrooms is because the School System is flooded with Spawn of Criminal invaders that don’t pay taxes, don’t speak english.


11 posted on 02/11/2017 1:37:49 PM PST by VRWCarea51 (The Original 1998 Version)
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Lets save them a visit to the know your rights web page.

if you are here without a legal visa or citizenship of the USA you have the following rights:

1. A free ride back to your country of origin


12 posted on 02/11/2017 1:38:11 PM PST by bigtoona (Make America Great Again! America First!)
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kill the rooster, scare the monkey...
13 posted on 02/11/2017 1:38:44 PM PST by Chode (may the RATS all die of dehydration from crying)
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And the tax payers are expected to pay to feed them 3 squares a day...Including during the Summer.


14 posted on 02/11/2017 1:39:27 PM PST by VRWCarea51 (The Original 1998 Version)
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so what?

Not our job to educate illegal aliens


15 posted on 02/11/2017 1:39:51 PM PST by Chickensoup (Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives.)
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Good, let them return to their own countries.

Living in fear because your illegally in someone else’s country is no way to live.

Leave now.


16 posted on 02/11/2017 1:41:33 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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"Lily Eskelsen García: Children are fearful to go to school as a result of immigration raids"

If they're legal, what's to fear?

Oh, wait. Now it's clear. You want to be a criminal and not have to fear punishment.

17 posted on 02/11/2017 1:41:52 PM PST by Carl Vehse
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Just tell them that their parents are CRIMINALS!!


18 posted on 02/11/2017 1:43:01 PM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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They can go to school in Mexico.

Or we could take over the Border States of Mexico as a colony for a couple of generations and move The Wall south.

19 posted on 02/11/2017 1:43:22 PM PST by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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>>>Children are fearful to go to school as a result of immigration raids<<<

That’s a bad thing?


20 posted on 02/11/2017 1:43:29 PM PST by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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