'Nothing is off limits': Public school communities brace for ICE raids
Source: ABC News
January 24, 2025, 5:27 PM
Latino and immigrant lawmakers are sounding the alarm as their school districts brace for deportations in the second Trump administration.
"Think about that -- that nothing is off limits, that raids could go and happen in our public schools," New York Rep. Nydia Velazquez said. "You know, that is the point: cruelty. You got to be heartless to say publicly that we are going to send ICE to our schools -- heartless."
In its first press conference of the 119th Congress, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus condemned President Donald Trump's immigration executive orders and the Department of Homeland Security revoking long-standing restrictions that thwarted Immigration and Customs Enforcement from conducting raids on schools and other sensitive areas.
"[Trump] says he's targeting criminals, but he just removed the restrictions that stopped ICE from conducting raids on schools, on hospitals and in churches," Texas Rep. Joaquin Castro said at the more-than-hourlong presser. "I would ask you who he believes among those kids is a criminal sitting in a first grade class. Who are the criminals that he's going after in the Catholic Church, in the Presbyterian Church, in the nondenominational churches? Who are those criminals?"
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