California bill would require parents be notified when immigration enforcement is at school

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KABC) -- California schools would person to make plans for notifying parents and teachers erstwhile migration enforcement is connected field nether a measure passed Tuesday by the authorities Legislature.

The measure would besides necessitate California State universities and assemblage colleges, and petition University of California campuses, to nonstop alerts to students, module and unit erstwhile migration enforcement is present. It present heads to Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, who has until Oct. 12 to motion it into law. The authorities would stay successful effect until 2031.

"Students cannot larn unless they consciousness safe," Democratic Assemblymember Al Muratsuchi said. "For decades we had a bipartisan statement to support acquisition institutions, schools, campuses, escaped from migration enforcement activities."

The measure was portion of a slate of proposals lawmakers passed Tuesday successful an effort to support families from the Trump administration's migration crackdown.

"No 1 should ever beryllium acrophobic to spell to school," California Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond said. "But that's what's been created successful this climate."

Others expressed enactment for Trump's migration policies.

"I don't deliberation they should beryllium alerting parents astir ICE being successful the area, due to the fact that they're interfering with the law," Rialto nonmigratory Horatio Gonzalez said. "If you're an amerciable present successful America, I don't deliberation you should beryllium here."

The Legislature besides precocious bills banning migration enforcement from entering nonpublic areas of schoolhouse oregon infirmary grounds without a warrant.

"The beingness of migration enforcement officers tin person detrimental effects connected students -- particularly those who whitethorn beryllium undocumented oregon different without imperishable status," said authorities Sen. Sasha Renee Perez of Pasadena, who authored the California bill.

Other Democratic-led states introduced authorities this twelvemonth aimed astatine protecting immigrants successful their homes, astatine enactment and during constabulary encounters amid Trump's wide deportation plans.

"We parents are the ones protecting our children," Hindera Angel of Riverside said successful a Spanish-language interview. "With these kinds of alerts, we tin dispersed the connection astir what is happening."

At Los Angeles Unified, officials urged migration authorities arsenic the schoolhouse twelvemonth kicked disconnected past period not to behaviour enforcement enactment adjacent campuses during the schoolhouse day. The schoolhouse district, which is the nation's second-largest, includes immoderate 30,000 migrant students, an estimated 4th of whom are without ineligible status, according to the teachers' union.

"We each merit the accidental to prosecute our acquisition escaped from fear, panic and intimidation," said Esther Mejia, enforcement serviceman of the UC Student Association.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.