Los Angeles schools superintendent says that he’ll protect undocumented students ‘to the very end’

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.)