Clovis Unified responds to concerns of immigration raids at schools

CLOVIS, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - In airy of the caller national announcements surrounding migration enforcement successful the United States, officials with the Clovis Unified School District sent retired a connection answering questions astir however the territory is impacted.

The announcement comes aft the Department of Homeland Security announced Tuesday that national migration officers volition beryllium allowed to apprehension migrants astatine places that were erstwhile off-limits specified arsenic schools and churches. Clovis Unified sent a connection to parents Thursday, stating their schools stay a "welcoming and unafraid situation for students each day."

In the lawsuit of national migration agents approaching the district, Clovis Unified officials accidental they volition beryllium referred to their Chief of Police arsenic their interaction for their schools. However, officials accidental the section ICE bureau has confirmed their plans to proceed anterior practices that sought to debar enactment connected schoolhouse campuses.

We are intimately monitoring the evolving speech astir migration enforcement and schools, and volition stay successful connection with our section instrumentality enforcement and our section ICE bureau to larn much astir what the caller Presidential Executive Order volition look similar successful enactment for America's schools. In summation to the enactment described above, we are pursuing authorities that is being considered successful the California legislature (SB48 and AB49) that would further restrict migration enforcement connected schoolhouse grounds.  

The schoolhouse territory says schools successful California are prohibited from collecting accusation astir the documentation presumption of immoderate students oregon their families, including societal information numbers - they accidental they purpose to "educate each students careless of their nationality oregon migration status," and promote anyone with questions oregon successful request of resources to scope retired to their section school.