JAMUL, Calif. (FOX 5/KUSI) — Two schoolhouse autobus routes wrong the Jamul-Dulzura Union School District person been concisely interrupted implicit the past 2 days aft migrants attempted to committee them, according to territory officials.
In an emailed announcement to families obtained by NewsNation affiliate KSWB, Superintendent Liz Bystedt said a radical of migrants attempted to committee on the district's A and B schoolhouse autobus routes.
The archetypal incidental occurred on the Route A way adjacent the intersection of Highway 94 and Cochera Via Tuesday afternoon. According to Bystedt, a radical of 3 men were walking successful the mediate of the road trying to halt 1 of the buses, prompting it to "go around" the group.
A Route B schoolhouse autobus Wednesday greeting came upon a radical of astir 20 radical arsenic it was picking students up from the aforesaid stop, Bystedt said. Parents contiguous astatine the tract helped the autobus operator guarantee students were harmless and that nary 1 boarded the bus.
At this time, it is unclear whether the 2 groups are connected. No injuries to students, territory unit oregon progressive migrants were reported. Additional details astir the incidents were not instantly available.
According to Bystedt, the territory reported the incidents to U.S. Border Patrol, California Highway Patrol and San Diego County Sheriff's Department.
"The San Diego Sheriff’s Office was made alert of this incidental today. We are conducting a travel up probe to find if a transgression enactment has occurred. The Sheriff's Office takes issues regarding pupil information precise earnestly and are moving with the schoolhouse territory successful bid to support the students and our assemblage safe," Kimberly King with the Sheriff's Department responded to KSWB successful a statement.
As the probe proceeds, Bystedt added that "for the information of students and autobus drivers" buses volition thrust past stops with migrants nearby, heading straight to the adjacent 1 connected the route.
"Please enactment [vigilant] and if the autobus drives by, delight travel the autobus to prime up your kid astatine the adjacent stop," she told families successful the emailed notice.
This afternoon, the superintendent said the district's manager of attraction and operations followed the buses to "ensure that everything was quiet."