“Prepared for everything”: Los Angeles School Police ordered the protection of students from ice

The Los Angeles School Police will create the safety perimeter throughout the campus and graduation places to deter federal immigration agents, according to a report From Los Angeles Times.

This step comes amid a wave of immigration raids throughout Los Angeles, including one next to Huntington Park Secondary School. The region’s supervisor, Alberto Carvalho, said that policy aims to ensure that students and families can celebrate graduation without fear.

“We are standing strongly on the right side of the law,” Carvalho said at a press conference on Monday. “Every student in our society, every student throughout the country, has a constitutional right to high -quality free public education, without threat.”

After several days of protests against ice raids in Los Angeles, President Donald Trump has fill out 700 naval infantry to the city. His administration previously released 2000 National Guard soldiers in California to Los Angeles, in a move by the governor of California, “inflammation”. White House He has He said that the decisions were necessary because the state leaders “completely disturbed their responsibility for protecting their citizens.”

While federal agents have not yet tried to enter schools during the current series of raids, Carvalho said they were “ready for everything” during the weekend. Such a scenario called “unhelpful”, but it cannot be visible given the recent procedures by the Trump administration.

The Times says that there are 100 planned graduation event for the first days of this week, with more events on the weekend.

“Our families are obliged to live in fear, and look at their shoulders on the way to school or their child graduates,” the school’s board member, Rockyo Rivas, told the Times newspaper.

“I spoke with the parents who told me that their daughter will be the first in their families graduating from high school, and they will not be there to see that, because they are afraid of the graduation place that is being targeted,” she said, noting that they will provide an option to apparent graduation if necessary. “Which nation has become?”