ICE raids will amid immigrant children on schools and homes
The Department of Homeland Security, authorized by the Donald Trump administration, raids children schools and homes.
Department of Homeland Security is being authorized by the Donald Trump's administration to proceed on raids to schools, homes, and shelters across the country for “interviewing” immigrant children. However, a report from The New York Times reveals that these visits, conducted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents without prior notice, may have other intentions.
Testimonies indicate that this approach forms part of the president’s strategy of deportation, which emphasizes “welfare checks” to confirm that migrant children are attending school and living in safe environments. This situation put minors at risk due to the visits are without a previous notify.
Why is the DHS visiting immigrant children in their schools?
The New York Times reports that Trump's administration defends these raids as measures to protect minors who entered the country without their parents. The officials carrying out these interventions are not social workers or child welfare specialists..
Last month, two elementary schools in Los Angeles denied entry to federal agents. Alberto Carvalho, superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District, questioned, “Why would a Homeland Security agent need to engage with first, second, third, or fourth graders?”
A prior concern is the cooperation between ICE and the Office of Refugee Resettlement, an agency of the Department of Health and Human Services that has traditionally operated by themselves. Their primary role is to protect migrant children’s welfare, not to intervene in their immigration status as Trump wants.
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Elementary Schools are now the new target on the ICE's interventions according to Trump's administration. Photo: GLR News Composition / AFP News
Donald Trump’s administration support those visits
This monitoring coincides with ICE’s efforts to locate illegal immigrants, confirmed by DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin. When no authorized adult caregiver is available, children have been placed under federal custody.
McLaughlin explained that these raids, aim to prevent minors that do not have their parents in the country from becoming victims of crimes. She talked about a case involving a Guatemalan man accused of attempted murder who had sponsored a 14-year-old girl.
