{"id":172445,"date":"2026-02-10T21:47:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T21:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/172445\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T21:47:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T21:47:10","slug":"northern-california-teacher-placed-on-leave-after-endorsing-ice-in-her-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/172445\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern California teacher placed on leave after endorsing ICE in her area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Northern California school placed a teaching intern on leave for celebrating ICE in a Facebook comment as a mob of angry locals threatened to damage her property.<\/p>\n<p>Sarai Jimenez, a special education teaching intern at MacQuiddy Elementary in Watsonville, endorsed the presence of ICE officers in her town in a comment on the social network last month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYay!!! We need ICE in Watsonville!! It\u2019s been getting out of hand,\u201d Jimenez wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The backlash intensified after ICE agents arrested a Watsonville resident last month, <a href=\"https:\/\/lookout.co\/watsonville-teacher-placed-on-leave-after-making-pro-ice-comment-on-social-media\/story\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">according to Lookout Santa Cruz<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sarai Jimenez, aka Sarai Jimenez-Robertson, was placed on leave from MacQuiddy Elementary in Pajaro Valley School District for allegedly posting pro-ice comments on her now-deleted Facebook page.<br \/>\n\u2013<br \/>\nFacebook\/Sarai Jimenez-Robertson Facebook\/Sarai Jimenez-Robertson<\/p>\n<p>Parents in the Pajaro Valley Unified School District, where 84% of students are Latino, expressed outrage at Jimenez\u2019s support for ICE.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can\u2019t just tell the world how you feel and not expect repercussions from people because of how they feel about ICE,\u201d local father Jorge Guerrero told the Lookout. <\/p>\n<p>Headshot of Sarai Jimenez-Robertson wearing glasses and smiling. Facebook\/Sarai Jimenez-Robertson<\/p>\n<p>T. S. MacQuiddy Elementary School<br \/>\n\u2013<br \/>\n330 Martinelli St, Watsonville, CA 95076<br \/>\n\u2013<br \/>\nGoogle Maps Google Maps<\/p>\n<p>Jimenez she received hostile social media comments and messages after the comment, including one threatening to pop her tires.<\/p>\n<p>Another person who threatened to file a complaint with the school told her, \u201cwho knows what you\u2019ll do behind closed doors to the kids of parents that are immigrants,\u201d calling her a \u201cshameful disgraceful disgusting woman.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m sorry that the comment was taken out of context,\u201d Jimenez told the Lookout. \u201cBut my actions speak so much louder than all those hateful bullies\u2019 words.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>MacQuiddy Elementary principal Sara Pearman said Jimenez\u2019s comment \u201cdoes not reflect the values\u201d of the school or district. <\/p>\n<p>She told families that the school is looking for a long-term substitute for Jimenez.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Northern California school placed a teaching intern on leave for celebrating ICE in a Facebook comment as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,2871,6168,3586],"class_list":{"0":"post-172445","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-california","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-california-headlines","10":"tag-california-news","11":"tag-ice","12":"tag-illegal-immigrants","13":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}