Amidst community apprehensions of potential raids by American immigration and customs enforcement agents, Guadalup Gutirez felt more anarchy when his cousin came home crying from Dixmur’s Roja Park Middle School.
Gutirez said on Tuesday, “He said to me,” I am afraid of going out. ”
Gutirez said that his cousin and other students said that his teacher caught a newspaper with a story about possible collective exile under President Donald Trump and came to the classroom and said, ‘I can’t wait to do so. ‘
“Students, they go to school to learn,” Gutirez said. “They do not go to school to get scared and wonder if they are going to pull by snow officials.”
The teacher said on Thursday that “all these false allegations,” declined to detailed further.
The roads in Chicago have calmed down after the target operations by ice agents starting on Sunday, saying a nationwide effort. Federal officials say 1,000 arrests were made. But in some south and south -west suburban cities, villages and school districts, large Hispanic population is also scattered for possible arrests in their communities.
After the Trump administration announced that it would allow federal immigration agencies to arrest in schools, churches and hospitals, ending a policy that prevents ice agents from “sensitive places” since 2011, some mothers -The father is questioning whether to send her children or not. School officials are looking for school and guidance.
Gutirez said that West Harvey Dixmur Elementary District 147 officials dismissed or ignored the complaints about the teacher’s rhetoric, but on Thursday sent a statement to the parents on Thursday “while addressing the concerns … immigration and the enforcement and About the safety of our students and families. ”
The statement signed by District 147 Interim Superintendent Craig Williams and Jerry Jordan was sent to a superintendent Raginald Lawrence in Harvey Elementary District 152, including four primary schools as well as Brooks Middle Schools.
The districts ensured that all children have the right to participate in school and the state is that the district is committed to providing a safe, reception and supporting environment for all students and families regardless of the “real or alleged immigration status. ”
The statement said, “We understand that recent news and events may have created fear and uncertainty, but please know that your child’s education, security and welfare are our top priorities.”
District 147 did not respond to the requests of the daily Southtown for comment about the teacher’s comment.
Gutirez posted on Facebook for parents and community members, who would worry about worrying about the comment in the next district 147 board meeting, at 7 pm on Monday, 191 W 155th, Harvey Is.
“Schools should work as a safe haveon for children – a place where they feel safe, supported and strong to develop in the best version of their own,” she wrote. “Such comments produce unnecessary fear and add significant stress to students, especially those who can already feel insecure due to current events.”
Blue Island officials issued a statement. On 21 January, the federal immigration will not participate in enforcement activities, announcing the police force of the city.
“Blue Island’s greatest strength is the city’s diversity,” read in the statement. “We will work to protect the price and every family and child in our community.”
According to the statement of the Blue Island Police Department, it works with limited resources, and its focus will be “on community security.”
The statement said, “We will continue to maintain all families that protect all the families living, working and contributing in the rich clothes of Illinois.”
Last month, President Trump’s border Czar, Tom Homan, had named Chicago as ground zero for their plan to score the migrants living illegally in the country on an unprecedented scale.
In the last week, rumors have been broadcast on social media platforms in the suburbs, as the ICE started a targeted arrest in the Chicago region, claiming the darshan by the commentators.
While there is no known arrest in the south suburbs, agents are seen going to the suburban areas after the agents were removed from a house from a house in North -West Suburban Elgin on Tuesday. Elgin officials told the tribune that the police department of the city would not be involved in any federal immigration enforcement activities.
Despite the situation of immigration, Blue Island officials advised that the residents make an emergency plan in terms of showing federal agents at their door.
City officials shared a packet that provides guidance about how to prepare a plan, recommending that families organize emergency contacts and remember them, helping their matters, important documents Make a list of people for and, if necessary, plan for short -term patrons. Parents are taken into custody.
They also recommend keeping a file of important documents that can detect children, family members and an emergency careist.