The school district in Pleasanton, California, sent out a memo to every school with guidance on how to stall Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents who show up with the intention of apprehending a school-age illegal immigrant, the Washington Examiner reported Thursday.
The Pleasanton Unified School District (PUSD) issued the district-wide memo, titled "Immigration & Customs Enforcement Response Summary," this week, according to the report.
The memo instructs staffers to meet ICE agents outside, pepper them with information requests long enough to "obtain guidance from district administration under legal counsel," according to the Examiner. Administrators are also ordered to contact the legal guardians of the student(s) being targeted by ICE, according to the report.
The memo goes on to advise that staffers should not take any action until they "obtain clear instructions from district administration," but adds, do not "physically attempt to interfere" if the ICE officer "fails to comply with your instructions," the Examiner reported. Staffers are told to request that ICE agents remain outside of the building.
"I felt like it was a lot to ask," a PUSD staff member told the Examiner. "I'm not necessarily willing to get in between ICE and their ability to do their job. They are there to do their job, and I'm there to do mine."
Border czar Tom Homan defended school visits, saying Sunday, "How many MS-13 members are the age 14 to 17? Many of them."
"So look, if it's a national security threat, public safety threat and what, what you need to understand is that it's case by case. Name another agency, another law enforcement agency, that has those type of requirements, that they can't walk into a school or doctor's office or a medical campus. No other agency is held to those standards. These are well-trained officers with a lot of discretion, and when it comes to a sensitive location, there's still gonna be supervisory review," Homan told ABC News' "This Week" Sunday program.
Pleasanton is a suburb in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area.
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