(The Center Square) – California officials are pushing back against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement under new guidance aimed at protecting students on campus, while ICE insists it does not raid schools.<\/p>\n
This past week, California Attorney General Rob Bonta updated guidance for students and educators on what to do when ICE agents approach them.<\/p>\n
Students and faculty \u201cmay not provide personally identifiable information of a student to immigration authorities unless provided with a judicial subpoena, judicial warrant, or court order,\u201d the guidance booklet stated.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cI know many California teachers and administrators are wondering how best to protect their students amid the Trump Administration\u2019s indiscriminate, callous mass deportation campaign,\u201d\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0Bonta. \u201cCalifornia cannot interfere with federal immigration enforcement, but we can and have chosen not to assist with the President\u2019s inhumane agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n As the Trump administration expands deportation efforts nationwide, concerns about immigration continue to rise across California schools.<\/p>\n With this growing public concern, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security pushed back on reports of ICE activity in schools.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said<\/a> the media attempts to \u201ccreate a climate of fear and smear law enforcement,\u201d arguing that such criticism has contributed to a \u201c1,000% increase in assaults\u201d on ICE officers. She emphasized that \u201cICE is not conducting enforcement operations at, or \u2018raiding,\u2019 schools. ICE is not going to schools to make arrests of children.\u201d<\/p>\n While ICE may act in rare cases involving threats to public safety like dangerous criminals fleeing onto a campus or a child sex offender working at a school, \u201cthis has not happened,\u201d McLaughlin added.<\/p>\n At a news conference on Wednesday, Bonta announced a new online portal,\u00a0oag.ca.gov\/ReportMisconduct,<\/a> for California residents to submit videos,\u00a0 photos and information to the California Department of Justice regarding potentially unlawful activity by federal agents and officers across the state. Bonta’s remarks at the conference were previously reported by The Center Square<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cThis new portal gives Californians an easy and safe way to speak up, share what they see, and help us hold people accountable. No one is above the law,\u201d Newsom said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(The Center Square) – California officials are pushing back against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement under new guidance…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9778,7,9,8,575,10817],"class_list":["post-80682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-attorney-general-rob-bonta","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-u-s-immigration-and-customs-enforcement","tag-united-states-department-of-homeland-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80682","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=80682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}