Droves of community members expressed anger on Tuesday to Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District leaders at a resolution that would have stated the school district supports immigration enforcement.<\/p>\n
After hearing public comments from outraged community members, the school district decided against moving ahead with the resolution. However, a motion that states school staff would not interfere with immigration actions on campuses remains on the table.<\/p>\n
More than 50 speakers signed up to address the board, with the majority of them against the motion.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are responsible for these children, and without the safety net that we have within this school district, these children are not going to feel safe,\u201d said Heaven Casey, a PYLUSD parent.<\/p>\n
Some parents took to the podium to speak in support of the measure.<\/p>\n
\u201cParents deserve to know our district will not pick and choose which laws or officers it respects,\u201d said Vance Stubbs, another PYLUSD parent.<\/p>\n
The motion was supported by trustee Leandra Blades, who was strongly criticized by parents at the meeting.<\/p>\n
\u201cMs. Blades, if you cannot uphold your duty to protect all students and follow the law, you should resign immediately,\u201d said immigration attorney Bethany Anderson.<\/p>\n
Blades said her intention was to show support for local, state and federal law enforcement. She said the motion\u2019s language about staff not interfering with immigration actions was part of another new policy that\u2019s mandated by state law, and includes requirements that district staff check immigration agents for warrants or subpoenas.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re not going to have employees that are going to impede or block or cause an even bigger situation,\u201d she said. \u201cWe want law enforcement to be on our campuses to keep our students safe.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ultimately, the board voted to issue a statement in support of all law enforcement. The school board also gave first approval to the language about staff not interfering with immigration actions, but that policy won\u2019t be official until it\u2019s voted on again in a meeting next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Droves of community members expressed anger on Tuesday to Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District leaders at a resolution…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49,611,2463],"class_list":{"0":"post-173136","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-la","9":"tag-la-headlines","10":"tag-la-news","11":"tag-los-angeles","12":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","13":"tag-los-angeles-news","14":"tag-orange-county","15":"tag-placentia"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173136","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=173136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}