Official Press Release
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
WASHINGTON – After media force-feeding the public stories about parents and children being scared to return to school, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is setting the record straight: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) does NOT raid or target schools.
“The media is sadly attempting to create a climate of fear and smear law enforcement. These smears are contributing to our ICE law enforcement officers facing 1,000% increase in assaults against them,” said Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin.
“ICE is not conducting enforcement operations at, or ‘raiding,’ schools. ICE is not going to schools to make arrests of children. Criminals are no longer be able to hide in America’s schools to avoid arrest. The Trump Administration will not tie the hands of our brave law enforcement and instead trusts them to use common sense. If a dangerous illegal alien felon were to flee into a school, or a child sex offender is working as an employee, there may be a situation where an arrest is made to protect public safety. But this has not happened.”
The facts are DHS’s directive allowing ICE to go into schools gives our law enforcement the ability to do their jobs. Our agents use discretion. Officers would need secondary supervisor approval before any action can be taken in locations such as a school. We expect these to be extremely rare.
Illegal is illegal. Our tax dollars are being wasted on educating, actually indoctrinating, ILLEGAL aliens.
Target away. If you are here illegally, you don’t get a free education on my dime.
Thank God the Supreme Court recognizes reality that when looking for illegal aliens, who mainly come from Mexico or other Central and South America countries, bringing limited job skills, and speaking the Spanish language, that it is PERFECTLY LEGAL to suspect Mexican or other Central American looking men, who speak Spanish, and congregate at places where day labor is hired, of being illegal aliens. And that it is ok to use race, language, and job status to suspect they might be illegal. And once again shutting down an illegal injunction or restraining order from a lower court preventing ICE from… Read more »
AND so what if they did target illegals in schools? ……….and they should.
Illegal is illegal, they broke FEDERAL LAW entering our country and taking benefits never earned. Every other country protects their borders like we should, and removes those that broke those laws. The left here actually protects and hides them, gives them free housing, free medical, free education at the cost of our citizens being helped
Not only are children not being targeted,
School Busses actually make stops at the Border to take them to and from school.