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District 57 board hears pleas for protection from ICE, votes to ask counsel to draft resolution templates
Summary
After multiple community speakers urged the board to adopt a resolution and signage to bar immigration enforcement operations from school grounds, trustees debated legal enforceability and safety risks and directed counsel to draft resolution templates and publish internal policy clarifications for discussion in February.
Community members and school board members spent the bulk of the meeting debating whether District 57 should adopt a public ban on immigration‑enforcement operations on district property.
Several speakers during the community‑comment period described seeing federal immigration agents and tactical deployments near Mount Prospect businesses and urged the board to make a public statement and post signage to protect students and families. "Please just please take some very clear action," said Jamie Richey Clark, a parent and neighbor.
Board members divided sharply. Some argued a public resolution…
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