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(159,319 posts) Wed Sep 3, 2025, 09:46 AM Wednesday

California bill requires schools to alert families of immigration agents on campuses

Source: The Guardian

Tue 2 Sep 2025 22.04 EDT
Last modified on Wed 3 Sep 2025 07.08 EDT

California lawmakers have passed a bill requiring schools to alert families and teachers when immigration enforcement authorities are on campuses as the Trump administration continues its aggressive mass deportation campaign.

Under the bill, K-12 schools, state universities and community colleges must notify students, faculty and staff, “similar to early warning systems in place for other campus emergencies”, according to a statement from state senator Sasha Renée Pérez, who authored the legislation.

It now heads to Gavin Newsom, who has until 12 October to sign it into law. The legislation would take effect immediately if signed and remain in effect until 2031.

“With students returning to school, this legislation is more important than ever,” Pérez, the chair of the senate education committee, said in a statement. “In the face of mass deportations, raids and immigration enforcement authorities showing up at schools, the Safe Act can help inform and empower school communities to make the best decisions about their safety and their family’s safety,” she said.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/02/california-immigration-enforcement-schools-families

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California bill requires schools to alert families of immigration agents on campuses (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Wednesday OP

ICE might like this; use kids as de facto hostages to lure parent into an ICE trap. . . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Wednesday #1

I'm sure Sen. Prez or someone in committee considered that Oeditpus Rex Wednesday #3

I think they are already doing that for some of the unaccompanied minors BumRushDaShow Wednesday #4

Do it, Garvin, just sign it. republianmushroom Wednesday #2

Gavin Hekate Wednesday #6

Good. This, too, is resistance. Hekate Wednesday #5

Bernardo de La Paz

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1. ICE might like this; use kids as de facto hostages to lure parent into an ICE trap. . . . . nt

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Wed Sep 3, 2025, 09:55 AM

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Oeditpus Rex

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3. I'm sure Sen. Prez or someone in committee considered that

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Wed Sep 3, 2025, 11:52 AM

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and included a way of protecting them, perhaps posting school staff a safe distance from the ICEsturhm to keep parents at that distance.

BumRushDaShow

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4. I think they are already doing that for some of the unaccompanied minors

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Wed Sep 3, 2025, 01:48 PM

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who they were told to NOT deport until they had hearings.

Trump administration requiring ICE interviews for parents hoping to reunite with children who entered U.S. alone

By —
Valerie Gonzalez,
Associated Press

Politics Sep 2, 2025 1:56 PM EDT

McALLEN, Texas (AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration has started requiring parents looking to reunite with their children who crossed into the U.S. alone to show up for interviews where immigration officers may question them, according to a policy memo obtained by The Associated Press.

Legal advocacy groups say the shift has led to the arrest of some parents, while their children remain in U.S. custody. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security did not confirm that or answer questions about the July 9 directive, instead referring in a statement to the Biden administration’s struggles to properly vet and monitor homes where children were placed.

The Office of Refugee Resettlement, which is part of the U.S. Health and Human Services Department and which takes custody of children who cross the border without a parent or legal guardian, issued the directive. The agency said the goal is to ensure that sponsors — usually a parent or guardian — are properly vetted.

The memo is among several steps the Trump administration has taken involving children who came to the U.S. alone. Over the Labor Day weekend it attempted to remove Guatemalan children who were living in shelters or with foster care families.

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