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Parents, students urge Union County Board of Education to declare schools safe from ICE; criticize board response
Summary
Public commenters at the Union County Board of Education meeting pressed the board to declare schools safe from ICE, asked for policy changes requiring judge-signed warrants and parental notification, and criticized board members for limited engagement with student protesters.
MONROE, N.C. — Parents, students and residents urged the Union County Board of Education on Wednesday to adopt clearer protections for students against immigration enforcement and to respond more directly to recent student protests.
Speakers described March and April walkouts at Monroe High School and said they want a formal board statement that ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) is not welcome on school grounds and clearer local policy to protect students.
Those comments matter because speakers said the district’s silence has left immigrant students and families fearful and because community members tied local concerns to national incidents they said illustrate the stakes.
At the meeting, Luna Portillo Delgado, a resident, said board members dismissed student concerns as “rumors” and said that dismissal “plainly illustrates the weaponized incompetence and ignorance involving UCPS’s education on the topic of immigration.” She asked the board to take students’ demands seriously.
Skyler Breeder, a sixth grader…
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