The Trump administration announced on Tuesday that officials implementing federal immigration laws can now arrest at sensitive places, schools in Arora region tried to make arrests on their facilities by immigration and customs and customs and border security. Has started planning in the situation.
The ICE guidance that banned the authorities from entering sensitive places like schools and churches is 2011. A similar customs and border security guidance was made in 2013.
But now, as soon as that guidance ends, local schools districts are determining how they will react to potential ICE encounters.
On Wednesday, the Illinois State Education Board released “non-regulatory guidance” for schools across the state when federal agencies attempts to implement federal immigration laws on school property.
State Superintendent of Education Tony Sanders said in a press release on Thursday, “It is our legal and moral obligation to protect our students’ rights within our buildings, as leaders of public schools.” “ISBE firmly believes that the school should be a safe hideout for all students, where students should be able to learn without any fear. We can do everything within our power to protect our students and their right to learn while in our care.
The state guidance explained what types of documents can be given to federal immigration officers and how schools should respond, and the next step can be offered. These include, for example, establishing points of contact in schools for ICE personnel and those who can review record requests or summons, ensure that school staff and faculty get training on school policies, Encouraging parents to their children’s emergency contacts. If the parents of a student are detained or deported, updates and plans are available.
East Aurora School District 131 sent a letter to the parents on Thursday evening to update their emergency contact information on the file with the district.
“It is also recommended that you have an emergency plan that you share with your family,” a letter from East Aurora School District Superintendent Jennifer Norel said.
A spokesman for the West Aurora School District 129 said that its school administrators are well aware of the procedures of responding to any government agency, including protecting the privacy of students and parents in compliance with the current laws. ”
Superintendent of Indian Property School District 204, Adrian Tally, said the District School is offering resources from the Illinois alliance for the US Immigration Council, immigrant legal resource center and Illinois for immigrant and refugee rights.
And Arora University said that it has developed a list of resources including legal resources for immigrant students.
Other schools in the Chicago region are also preparing for an encounter with federal immigration agencies.
For example, the University of Chicago Illinois said that it has recently sent a message to the employees in which they have been directed to not accept the documents submitted by the federal immigration officers and instead to direct the UIC Police. Chicago Public School said it would not share private student-level information with ICE until the court order or parents or parents agreed.
On Thursday, Illinois Attorney General Quame Raul issued updated guidance for state, county and local law enforcement in the case of implementing the federal immigration law.
Raul said in a press release on Thursday, “The state law does not give local law enforcement the right to implement federal civil immigration laws.” “This involves participating in any capacity, supporting or assisting federal immigration enforcement actions, unless federal agents have criminal warrants or are particularly needed by federal law.”
According to the latest census data, out of about 180,000 inhabitants of the city of Aurora are Hispanic, while Illinois is 19% in Chicago and less than 30% in Chicago. And by 2019-2023, the population of Aurora was born over 25% abroad, while Illinois was about 14% in Chicago and more than 20% in Chicago.
However, while the school officials in the area said that a lot of remained remained uncertain, he said that they are preparing as the best as possible.
“Although the implications of this recent announcement in relation to the access of ICE to schools and churches to schools and churches are not yet completely clear, we are actively preparing for any possible impact,” Tally said in a statement on Thursday. Are doing it. ”
And, despite the uncertainty of the uncertainty of when and what can be encountered with ICE, East Aurora School District – whose school community, according to district data, is about 90% of the Hispanic – their rights to public education to local families. Reminded about about
“(A) All children in the United States are entitled to equal access to basic public elementary and secondary education, whether their real or projected immigration status, or their parents/parents are the position – supported by the US Supreme Court In a standard peller vs. do, even in such examples when a student cannot be documented, “Norel said in a letter to the district families on Thursday.” We will continue to support our EASD 131 students and successful them Help will do everything in their power so that they can reach their full potential and this involves giving them a safe place and resource for their families. “