School police in Los Angeles announced new measures to prevent federal agents from enforcing immigration law near public schools in California, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times.
Critics of the Trump administration have pointed to some incidents where agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement sought to gain entry to schools in order to detain illegal aliens in deportation proceedings.
‘Our families are now forced to live in fear, looking over their shoulders on the way to school or their child’s graduation. This is just simply wrong.’
Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent Alberto Carvalho said the school police would be deployed to ensure that the families of students were safe from federal enforcement at graduation ceremonies.
“We stand strongly on the right side of law,” said
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