Schools Aren’t Off-Limits For ICE Raids, Trump DHS Says
The Trump administration on Tuesday said that schools were no longer off-limits for immigration enforcement agents, withdrawing a Biden administration guideline on “sensitive” areas.
“Criminals will no longer be able to hide in America’s schools and churches to avoid arrest,” Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Benjamine Huffman said in a Tuesday statement.
“This action empowers the brave men and women in CBP and ICE to enforce our immigration laws and catch criminal aliens—including murderers and rapists—who have illegally come into our country,” the statement continued. “The Trump Administration will not tie the hands of our brave law enforcement, and instead trusts them to use common sense.”
School systems immediately pledged to make ICE’s job as hard as possible, and an Obama-linked progressive group urged them to do so because the more illegal immigrants a school has, the more taxpayer money it gets.
The Century Foundation, a progressive nonprofit that school systems lean on for policy advice, said that principals should meet federal law enforcement at the door and tell them that “district protocols” prohibited them from entering before the principal called the district’s lawyer. Then, the principal should call the child’s parents. Denver, whose enrollment has risen thanks to immigrant children after several years of declining enrollment, was one of several districts that said they would follow a similar procedure. (Read more from “Schools Aren’t Off-Limits For ICE Raids, Trump DHS Says” HERE)
