Priorities!
After days of violent riots, including people looting stores and destroying property, the Los Angeles Police Department decided to protect schools and graduations.
But not from violent people.
The LAPD will set up safe zones around schools and graduations to protect people from ICE raids after the agency raided a Home Depot near Huntington Park High School.
The schools have been celebrating graduations this week and will continue through June 16.
I kid you not. From The Los Angeles Times:
“We stand strongly on the right side of law,” [Supt. Alberto] Carvalho said. “Every student in our community, every student across the country, has a constitutional right to a free public education of high quality, without threat. Every one of our students, independently of their immigration status, has a right to a free meal in our schools. Every one of our children, no questions asked, has a right to counseling, social emotional support, mental support.”President Trump reversed a Biden administration policy that largely exempted schools and other potentially sensitive areas such as churches from immigration enforcement. In recent days, federal agents also have not targeted local schools. But in April federal agents were turned away by staff at two elementary schools.
California is a sanctuary state, and Los Angeles is a sanctuary city.
California Senate Bill 54 “prohibits local law enforcement from using resources for immigration enforcement.”
The state is pushing its luck. This part made me twitch:
Carvalho did not rule out the potential for a standoff involving school police if federal officers attempted to enter a school or an off-campus school event — such as a graduation ceremony — without a judicial warrant.“I think that would be a preposterous condition,” Carvalho said. “But then again, we have seen preposterous actions taken recently by this administration. We are prepared for everything,” Carvalho said, adding that he’s in consultation on contingency plans with L.A. Mayor Karen Bass.“I have a professional, moral responsibility to protect our kids, protect our workforce, ensure the sanctity, the protection of our buildings and their extension,” Carvalho said. “That means the school buses, the transportation of kids to school and graduation ceremonies. Nothing should interfere with that, and I will put my job on the line to protect a 5-year-old, an 11-year-old, an 11th grader or a soon-to-be graduate.”
Do you want a confrontation?
The Los Angeles Times included quotes from people, expressing fear for their lives and families.
I have an idea. How about you not be here illegally? Just a thought.
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