Democrat senators are calling on the U.S. Department of Education to pressure immigration authorities to keep enforcement actions from being carried out within 1,000 feet of any school property after recent incidents in the Chicago area.
Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., and about a half dozen other senators have sent a letter, provided to NBC News, to Education Secretary Linda McMahon to ask her to step in and ask that the Department of Homeland Security reinstate restrictions on enforcement actions, the network reported Friday.
“Federal agents continue to use unwarranted, excessive levels of force around Chicago, demonstrating an alarming lack of care or regard for the health and well-being of children, particularly by conducting unfocused, inflammatory operations within close proximity of school grounds,” the senators wrote in the letter.
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