EXCLUSIVE: Portland School
Teachers Now Obligated To Help Illegal Alien Students Evade I.C.E. Agents. 17/19.
Portland Public Schools spends about
$13,000 per year, per student.
That’s the second highest spending-per-student rate in the area.
What to do if you’re a teacher in
Portland Public Schools, you suspect that one or more of your students are
“undocumented,” and you see federal I.C.E. agents around the school?
Well, thanks to this handy guide
from the school district, you
are now obligated to help the students evade the I.C.E. agents.
The
guide, labeled “Responding to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE),”
instructs teachers to not bring the students that the
agents are asking for, do not tell the ICE agents anything, contact
the families of the students, do not comply with warrants, bring
the students into the building to provide them with a hideout spot, contact
principals and other administrators, and contact the pro illegal alien non
profits “to assist families who may be reluctant to pick up children.”
The guide also states that “An
attorney from the General Counsel’s office will also determine whether to
comply with ICE subpoenas for records. The District will refuse to comply with
administrative subpoenas, citing FERPA.”
In order to better to aid the
illegal alien communities, the school district will “have conversations with
potentially impacted families to help them identify family members or friends
as emergency contacts” and “Contact community partners el Program Hispano,
Impact NW, Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization to work with families
in identifying persons to pick up the children.”
This is
part of a renewed and emboldened effort to a aid and abet illegal aliens, for
which the Portland Public Schools superintendent, Guadalupe Guerrero, recently testified to the school
board on.
Note
that this video is set to “unlisted”, which means it doesn’t
come up in any search and does not appear in the video list on the PPS YouTube channel. We have downloaded the video just in
case Guerrero decides to remove it.
Guerrero
put up his scripted speech as its own post on
the PPS webpage: I
want to address a topic that is of both personal and professional importance to
me, both as Superintendent of the Portland Public Schools and as a son of
immigrants to this country, as someone for whom public education opened doors,
as someone who entered school not knowing English…who went on to obtain
graduate degrees and now has the privilege of serving in this role.
In recent days, we have heard reports that
Immigration and Custom Enforcement, also known as ICE, has conducted targeted
efforts to arrest individuals within our community. I am horrified and angered
that one of these detainees is a PPS parent, who like so many other families,
was on their way to drop off their children–our students–at school. This is
unforgivable and inhumane. Like so many of us, our immigrant parents have the
same hopes and dreams for their children. And like all of us, they sacrifice to
provide all we can for their children.
So while we watch the six o’clock news and see the
horrific images of children being torn from their families and put into cages
at the border, we know that our families right here in Portland, right here in
our communities, are being torn apart. This is unacceptable. Students shouldn’t
come to school anxious that their mama or papa won’t be at home after school.
Parents shouldn’t fear not being able to pick up their kids from school because
of the potential to be detained.
And so, while it is not within my purview to
control immigration issues beyond our campus boundaries, I want to publicly
reaffirm our commitment that our school will serve as beacons of learning for
every student, regardless of their immigration status or that of their
families. No one will be turned away and every student will be guaranteed, as
best we can, a rich education experience. We will continue to do everything
possible to ensure that our schools are sanctuaries for our students.
I know I sit here at the dais with seven board
members committed to the same. I want to once again thank them for passing
Resolution No. 5363, Rights of Undocumented Students and Protocols for INS and
ICE Access to Schools, last year, where they firmly expressed our collective
values on this issue.
We will continue to work with our community-based
partners to provide adequate supports to help our students and families heal
from this horrific trauma. I have also directed our staff to deploy resources
and counseling to impacted schools. As I did last night, I will continue to
personally reach out to affected families.
In moments like this, our community and our school
district will be remembered for our humanity, by how we reach out and support
those who are really suffering a trauma that many of us can’t begin to
understand.
And so to our families: We have your back. We have
a moral responsibility to provide you and yours a rich education and a safe
place to come to school every day.
In
fact, Guerrero gave a version of that speech in Spanish, as well, starting at
the 1:17:12 mark of the full videofrom the school board meeting.
The
resolution they were referring to, 5363 can be found on Scribd: Immigration Resolution 3 FINAL by on Scribd.
According
to their recent budget, Portland Public Schools is receiving
about $53 Million in federal funds for
the 2018-19 school year, out of a total of $1.5 Billion. This is after
receiving $62 Million in the last budget cycle. They’ve also recently received a $10.6 Million federal
grant for a
college preparedness program.
An
audit by the Secretary Of State released earlier this year exposed several flaws in
PPS, including failing to help students of
color, massive wasteful
spending, and high teacher absences.
Portland
Public Schools has one of the lowest graduation rates in the
country, with only 79%
of the students graduating on time.
This
is in addition to a swath of scandals that have plagued
the district for years,
including covering for sex abusers, racist harassment, superintendents
resigning in shame, hiring attorneys who haven’t passed the bar. And don’t
forget the “Social Justice” guides that were
distributed to teachers,
which praise Che Guevara and islam.
You
can reach PPS superintendent Guadalupe Guerrero at (503) 916-3200. You can
reach Oregon Deputy Superintendent of
Public Instruction Colt Gill at
(503) 373-0036. You can reach federal Department Of Education secretary
Betsy DeVos at
1-800-USA-LEARN.
Perhaps
this falls under “fraud, waste, and abuse” in which case you reach the
Inspector General at 1-800-MIS-USED.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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