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FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Central Unified School Board Trustee Nabil Kherfan said it's not astir migration status; it's astir creating a harmless abstraction wherever students consciousness comfy learning.
"So, I don't attraction whether a pupil is simply a U.S. Citizen, oregon whether they're undocumented, oregon what their parents are," Kherfan said. "It is conscionable important to maine to marque definite they get a bully acquisition and that they are harmless successful our schoolhouse careless of wherever they are."
This is wherefore Kherfan said helium and 2 different trustees, Naindeep Singh and Yesenia Carillo, presented an updated "Safe Learning For All" argumentation during their latest committee of trustees meeting.
"So, backmost successful January, erstwhile determination were a batch of ICE sweeps successful Kern and Fresno counties, determination was a existent fearfulness and anxiousness with our migrant neighbors," Kherfan said.
He said the fearfulness that parents and students were feeling became noticeable.
"We saw a alteration successful worker attendance astatine farms, factories and different workplaces," Kherfan said.
During the March meeting, the updated argumentation was passed unanimously and included respective cardinal points.
"One would beryllium that if ICE were to travel to a Central Unified School, we wouldn't conscionable fto anybody conscionable locomotion into campus," helium said. "We would request a warrant signed by a judge, and from determination we would determination them toward the territory bureau truthful we tin spell done the due channels."
Kherfan said accelerated effect messages would beryllium sent to students via the schools' Parent Square app.
"We would nonstop retired a notification to each the parents successful our territory precise soon aft truthful that they tin beryllium alert of what's going connected successful our assemblage and marque plans accordingly," helium said.
Kherfan said their extremity is that each students wrong their territory consciousness protected.
