Posted on 10/10/2025 8:45:49 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
CHICAGO (Reuters) -On a chilly morning outside Nash Elementary School in a working-class Chicago neighborhood, teachers greeted students with the usual high-fives and hugs, while handing out sheets with red-bolded words proclaiming in capital letters: “Defend your rights under the threat of occupation.”
Four weeks into President Donald Trump's "Operation Midway Blitz" deportation drive, mass arrests across the city - which have swept up parents on their way to school and entire families - have induced fear in immigrant communities and protectiveness from educators, according to city leaders, the teachers' union, parents and immigration advocates.
"My Latino students, they're fearing everything," said Yaritza Santana, a science teacher at Nash Elementary. “They fear that they're going to just be taken."
Some of the teachers Reuters spoke to said they had seen students hug each other, promising that they wouldn’t be separated by immigration officers; a teary-eyed high schooler asking her teacher what happened to a missing relative believed to be in an ICE detention center; and a classroom of anxious faces during “know your rights” training.
“I’m not going to lie, I’m afraid. But I’m also very angry, and that anger fuels me,” said Anna Lane, who teaches social studies at Thomas Kelly Preparatory, a high school where most students are Latino.
The number of English language learners dropped to 86,172 students from 88,807 the previous year, a decrease of 2.7%, according to Chicago Public Schools enrollment data, although English learners still make up about one-quarter of all CPS students.
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Great news for a Friday morning! Thanks for posting it!
"And I'm doing everything that I can to make sure that this fear is constant and being spread as much as possible. Terrorism against children is the Democrat Way!"
Fear they are going to get caught
“They fear they’re just going to be taken”
They’re not wrong. If they’re illegal they should be scared.
Under occupation?
Did we engage in a war with Chicago? Will there be US, British, French and Soviet zones?
What a weird choice of words.
CC
It’s important to remember that the public schools get paid for every student they have regardless if the student is legally in the U.S. So, it’s in the school’s interest to have as many illegals as possible, even though it isn’t in the local and state taxpayers’. Average cost per student in Chicago is $24 K per year.
“Defend your rights under the threat of occupation.” Interesting that the ‘occupation’ refers to American LEOs enforcing the law and not the illegal invaders.
Liars (I mean dimocraps) have to lie.
The left excels in hyberbole
“English learners still make up about one-quarter of all CPS students.”
Infuriating. All going to be welfare leeches their entire lives and live better than tax paying Americans.
Good!! Hope they're quaking in their shoes.
Chicago ‘Know your rights’ let’s count the murdered bodies.
Kingpin leaders mum.
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