NPR interviews Alberto Carvhalo, Superintendent of the second-largest school district in the nation, about two recent incidents where ICE agents showed up at elementary schools in L.A. to perform “wellness checks” on undocumented students. Carvhalo reports that there is no precedent for such an action by ICE agents, and reports that ICE agents lied to the principals of the schools in order to try to obtain access to the students. The schools’ principals, following district guidance, refused the agents entry or access to the students.
Asked directly “how far” he was willing to go to protect undocumented students in the face of repercussions from the Trump administration, Carvhalo says, “To the very end,” adding that he is perfectly willing “to incur and sustain personal consequence in my efforts to advocate and support hundreds of thousands of kids.”
(Taken from an email sent to me by Never Again Action.)
Let’s hope he actually means it, and that white parents won’t sell out undocumented children of others.
LA liberals are some of the most vicious and dehumanizing. See their approach towards homeless people.
I see your LA liberals and raise you Orange County Liberals.
People legitimately would rather hunt down and shoot hordes of homeless people then seize vacant housing units to shelter them. The concept of attacking another person’s “private property” which isn’t even being used mind you (there’s about a million vacant housing units in CA, and 200k homelessness) is seen as unjust compared to killing desperate human beings.
I somehow look like the crazy person for suggesting that anyone profiting off of homeless is a form of social malfeasance. There’s definitely fertile ground for agitation here, but trying to convince people to understand that basic empathy is in their self interest is nauseating.
There’s this massive attitude of “I had to suffer cuz of whatever reason, so it’s unfair if others don’t” but from people who really aren’t suffering the same amount today. It’s like the definition of a crab bucket where people will drag you down even if you attempt to pull them up.