Washington (AP) – unions that represent millions of educators and school workers sue President Donald Trump’s administration because of their approach to immigration and legends to terrorize arrests near the school premises, terrorize children and their teachers and lead to some students to switch off.
At the beginning of Trump’s second term, his Republican government said that it would enable arrests of immigration in schools – long as limits. This has violated the law, argues the lawsuit by the two largest US teacher unions, the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers.
In addition, educators from a preschool in Oregon, in which masked agents broke a car window and the father of a student from his car was broken out of Oregon shortly after the child was deposed. The arrival of the police caused the school to go into a blocking, and teachers played music so that the students could not hear the excitement outside.
The teacher Lauren Fong, who teaches the child, whose father was arrested that day, said she was concerned about the decision to face the father in the school’s parking lot.
“Why a school? Why else does any place?” Fong said in an interview. “It was in the parking lot where it could be observed by so many small children.”
The educators joined a lawsuit that was submitted in April by a farm worker Union in Oregon and a group of churches and the decision of the Trump government to also open the enrollment houses for the enforcement of immigration. The changed lawsuit was submitted on Tuesday before a federal court in Eugene, Oregon.
A request for comment was sent to the Ministry of Homeland Security.
For almost three decades, immigration agents were instructed to clear themselves from “sensitive places” such as schools, hospitals and worship, except in exceptional circumstances. According to a memo of 2021, the homeland protection authority could “meet the enforcement mission (your) enforcement mission without refusing or limiting the access of the individual to the necessary medical care, children access to their schools, the displaced access to food and accommodation, people with faith access to their worship locations”.
One day after Trump’s taking office, the department raised the memo and instead asked the agents to exploit “common sense” if they operate near schools and churches. In an explanation, civil servants outlined their argument behind the move: “Criminals will no longer be able to hide in the American schools and churches to avoid arrest.”
The lawsuit describes several cases of masked agents from immigration and customs authorities that make arrests in and around school and in the church. In Los Angeles, masked border patrol officers descended on a car that was parked next to a high school, and ordered a 15-year-old boy with disabilities with a gun held up while looking for a man with gang tying. They captivated him with handcuffs and only released him when they discovered that they had the wrong person.
The lawsuit contains testimonials from unnamed teachers who report that the participation and participation of students who are either immigrants or children of immigrants report increased fear and reduced participation and the number of visitors.
High school teachers in Pennsylvania and Virginia said that some students appeared in the spring on campus. A language pathologist at a Californian elementary school said that parents with a migration background would not register their children for special debt services, as this would mean giving more information about the school. A Texas High School teacher for schoolchildren who learns English said that the enrollment in her classes had dropped steeply.
“America’s classroom must be safe and inviting learning and discovery places,” said Randi Weingarten, President of the AFT.
Managers in the bulky immigration churches, the sued, also described increased fear and a decline in mass visit.
Lawyers argue that Trump’s decision to open churches to enforce immigration violates the rights of the community members of the first change because it makes them too anxious to visit the church. Completion of the memo of the sensitive locations violates the lawsuit of the administrative procedure law, the agencies of the implementation of guidelines that “arbitrarily, moody, a discretion abuse or in other ways are not in accordance with the law”.
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