In 2016, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement entered a West Facet house and put a 27-year-old mom in handcuffs.
The lady, who requested to not be named for her security, was sleeping at 6 a.m. when brokers knocked on the door, in search of family.
She didn’t reply questions, and was detained.
“They didn’t care if I had papers or not. All they needed was, whoever seems to be Hispanic or whoever they consider is illegitimate they’ll arrest them,” she stated over the telephone on Monday.
It’s now practically 9 years later, however she nonetheless feels “trauma” from that have.
On Monday, she went to Lorenzo De Zavala Elementary Faculty within the metropolis’s Internal West Facet to report an inappropriate remark allegedly made by a trainer on social media about ICE deportations over the weekend.
She noticed the touch upon Friday whereas scrolling via TikTok, when a video got here up on her For You Web page.
The publish is a photograph of the ICE emblem with NSYNC’s music “Bye Bye Bye” enjoying within the background. Added textual content partly reads, “Raid each faculty. Arrange store in ER’s.”
The remark allegedly written by a bilingual Pre-Ok trainer on a now-deleted account reads, “Come to San Antonio TX please.”
San Antonio Unbiased Faculty District confirmed that the matter is beneath investigation.
“It made me so uncomfortable for the security of the kids. He ought to be defending our youngsters, he shouldn’t be making these remarks particularly with what’s happening right now,” the guardian stated. “As guardians, we anticipate our youngsters to be in school protected and sound, they usually’re elementary college students. What hurt did they do? They didn’t do something.”
On Friday earlier than discovering the remark, she had printed 200 Know Your Rights “crimson playing cards” for $20 and spent the varsity day passing them out to Hispanic companies and native barber outlets, some owned by Latinos in San Antonio together with Hondurans and Cubans, she stated.
Dad and mom on Monday afternoon bought a letter from the varsity principal concerning the incident.
“It has been reported to us {that a} employees member created social media posts over the weekend, and these posts are producing questions and considerations from our households. Please know we’re addressing this case in order that our focus stays on educating and studying,” the letter from SAISD said.
