{"id":118548,"date":"2026-01-31T19:10:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T19:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/118548\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T19:10:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T19:10:14","slug":"opinion-dear-ice-letters-from-students-living-in-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/118548\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | Dear ICE: Letters From Students Living in Fear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-8hvvyd\">Dear ICE agents \u2014\u2014 Dear Immigration and Customs Enforcement \u2014\u2014 Dear ICE \u2014\u2014 Hey, ICE \u2014\u2014 Dear ICE agents \u2014\u2014 [MUSIC PLAYING] Dear ICE agents, I hope you\u2019re respectful to everyone and show kindness. I also hope you respect all people from all different countries and around the world. [MUSIC PLAYING] I think as a community, we should respect people\u2019s homes and the people themselves. These people are important to us and others. We should treat everyone the same, even if we don\u2019t know them. [MUSIC PLAYING] I think, after losing someone I love, this kind of makes me sad. But I hope everyone can still have their loved ones next to them. [MUSIC PLAYING] You are scaring schools, people and the world. You should be kind, helpful and caring, like normal police, not dangerous, scary, and stealing people. I think you should make friends with the world. Love, a Valley View student. Keep walking, guys. Keep walking here. You, right now, you\u2019re making people get really sad because you\u2019re just taking them away without them doing anything. I chose to draw this because it helps you realize that if you were getting taken by ICE, you would feel miserable. [MUSIC PLAYING] Keep going, guys. My teacher said to keep this kind, so I\u2019m going to write a poem. I know you\u2019re following orders. Please don\u2019t send them out the borders. The world has already fired up the mortars of hate. But I believe there are birds whose songs of love aren\u2019t heard By people who need to care. You want me to talk about Liam? Yeah. Would you mind sharing some stories about him? Liam was a pre-K-er from Valley View, and he was taken by the ICE agents. And he was also wearing a bunny hat, and his name was Conejo, which means \u201cbunny\u201d in Spanish. So that\u2019s what the bunnies represent: him. I would say to Liam that I hope he is safe. How would you feel if he came back to class? Happy because he was taken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dear ICE agents \u2014\u2014 Dear Immigration and Customs Enforcement \u2014\u2014 Dear ICE \u2014\u2014 Hey, ICE \u2014\u2014 Dear ICE&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8165,9,11,10],"class_list":["post-118548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-immigration-and-customs-enforcementice","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}