Two Los Angeles Unified School District primary schools prevented Department of Homeland Security officials from entering campus and performing welfare checks. Five The immigrant children reportedly joined the United States themselves.
On April 7, agents arrived at Lillian Street Elementary School and Russell Elementary School to check on the child, but were turned away by the school’s principal.
“DHS is making major efforts to implement welfare checks on these children to ensure that these children are safe, exploited, abused, and sex trafficking.”
Coach Alberto Carvalho praised the principal for putting a federal officer on his shoulder.
“What interest should a homeland security agent be with first-year students?” Carvalho It is listed During a press conference. “They wanted to access students to determine their well-being based on the fact that when they entered the country they entered as unaccompanied minors,” according to the agents.
“It is well known that these students are caring for relatives,” Carvalho declared.
He admitted that the agents confirmed they were not immigrants or customs enforcement, but he noted that they arrived in unmarked vehicles and were wearing casual clothes.
“When the principals tried to write down the details of their ID, they immediately hid the ID,” Carvalho claimed.
The agent allegedly allowed legal parents to check their children at school, according to the superintendent. Carvalho argued that it was “absolutely, blatantly, not true.”
Send by Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif) and 17 other Democrats letter “We have stopped immigration enforcement activities targeting children who do not pose a threat to public safety.”
The letter stated that officers arrived at the school without a warrant and “turned back correctly.”
“LAUSD staff members informed us that four students from Russell Elementary School are not actually unaccompanied minors,” the letter allegedly. “We therefore require that your (sic) provide a briefing to our office to prove your claims regarding the operation of the agency.”
DHS Deputy Director Tricia McLaughlin spoke to the incident on Sunday. post x.
She wrote, “[Homeland Security Investigations] Officers were at these schools and were doing wellness checks on unaccompanied children at the border. This had nothing to do with immigration enforcement. ”
“DHS is making major efforts to implement welfare checks on these children to ensure that they are safe, exploited, abused and sex trafficking,” McLaughlin continued. “Unlike the previous administration, the president [Donald] Trump and Secretary Nome are responsible for serious protection for children and will continue to work with federal law enforcement to reunite them with their families. ”
McLaughlin said Noem and Health and Welfare Director Robert F. Kennedy Jr. have already reunited with relative or safe parents and nearly 5,000 unaccompanied children after former President Joe Biden’s administration lost the trajectory of immigrant children with 320,000 accompanimental children.
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