Anonymous wrote:ICE is all over Columbia Heights right now. The ICE Block app is a sea of red, including near schools.

Are folks doing OK? How was this morning?

Pretty messed up if they are explicitly camping out near bilingual schools.

DC graduated from DCI last year. Due to all the Spanish speaking bilingual feeder schools, DCI has a disproportionate Hispanic student body. I wonder if the older students just chose to not return.

They’re in all of the Latino neighborhoods as they have been daily. I heard one report of a father being detained commuting to or from school, but didn’t see video to confirm it.

ICE is all over Columbia Heights right now. The ICE Block app is a sea of red, including near schools.

Are folks doing OK? How was this morning?

Pretty messed up if they are explicitly camping out near bilingual schools.

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Anonymous wrote:ICE has put out a statement they will not be at schools on Monday. You all can calm down

Will they be on families’ route to school?

Do not trust ICE. This announcement is a trap.

Anonymous wrote:ICE was at our Virginia elementary school with a large hispanic population several times last spring. Parents would arrange to take other kids to school if their parents were afraid of being targeted (even if they are legal). The harassment risk, and in front of kids, is real.

JD Vance’s comment in response to Union Station protestors about “how scared my children were when protesters yelled”. No doubt his kids were scared. I feel for his kids. Any politician is aware of this risk when entering office. …. But it is also SO incredibly tone deaf when there are I don’t know how many children who are seeing their parents - without due process - get dragged away by masked guards waits weapons.

Anonymous wrote:ICE has put out a statement they will not be at schools on Monday. You all can calm down

That’s a pathetic statement for ICE to have to make!!

It is bad, I am at a school that has many Hispanic students and many have dropped out of school. It’s so sad and as a teacher I am unsure what I could realistically do.

Anonymous wrote:They have been in all of the Hispanic neighborhoods every single day by 7am since this all started. They are in unmarked cars, and they profile people and pull them over and arrest them. This will absolutely continue to happen on Monday. If vulnerable families are taking their kids to school in cars, then they are very likely to get caught up in the detentions.

The head of ICE said they are not stopping people just walking down the street. And yet we all know that they are. The power of quotas.

They have been in all of the Hispanic neighborhoods every single day by 7am since this all started. They are in unmarked cars, and they profile people and pull them over and arrest them. This will absolutely continue to happen on Monday. If vulnerable families are taking their kids to school in cars, then they are very likely to get caught up in the detentions.

Anonymous wrote:ICE has put out a statement they will not be at schools on Monday. You all can calm down

He further said they would be at schools as they saw useful. So not Monday, but after that is fair game. So you can qualify your bossy imperative to "You can all calm down for Monday only."

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Anonymous wrote:ICE has put out a statement they will not be at schools on Monday. You all can calm down

Pretty irrelevant if they are a block away from schools.

This is why our PTA has a Whatsapp group where white parents will volunteer to walk to school the children of anyone who is concerned about being racially targeted. We don't want kids to miss school because their parents are afraid to take them.

Anonymous wrote:ICE has put out a statement they will not be at schools on Monday. You all can calm down

Pretty irrelevant if they are a block away from schools.

Anonymous wrote:ICE has put out a statement they will not be at schools on Monday. You all can calm down

Who would believe that?

Anonymous wrote:Why you racist OP?

Op isn’t being racist, they are being realistic. My husband would love to speak up against what’s happening but he isn’t white and isn’t a citizen. I would also love to speak up. I’m white but I would like my husband to not be deported. So we can’t speak up. Free speech no longer applies to some people.

Racist? Just figure that people with privilege should try to be allies. These dumb ICE people harass anyone who isn’t white.