The Department of Homeland Security released a memo Tuesday morning clarifying that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) does not raid or target schools.
“ICE is not conducting enforcement operations at, or ‘raiding,’ schools,” DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin wrote in a statement. “ICE is not going to schools to make arrests of children.”
However, if there are criminals “hiding” in schools, the Trump deportation force will intervene, she added with a caveat — emphasizing that while ICE agents are not stationed at schools, they retain discretion to act if public safety is at risk.
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