California bill calls for family alerts on school campus Immigration agents | California

California lawmakers pass a bill that requires schools to remind families and teachers when immigration law enforcement is on campus Trump administration Continue its active mass expulsion campaign.

Under the bill, K-12 schools, state universities and community colleges must notify students, faculty, “a warning system similar to other campus emergencies,” according to a statement by state Senator Sasha Renée Pérez, who wrote the law.

It’s going now Gavin Newsomit will not be signed into law until October 12. The legislation will be signed immediately and remain in effect until 2031.

“This legislation is more important than ever as students return to school,” Senate Education Committee Chairman Perez said in a statement.

“In the face of mass deportation, raids and immigration enforcement authorities appearing at schools, the Security Act can help and empower the school community to make the best decisions about their safety and family safety,” she said.

The bill was because the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown puts communities into turmoil, while immigration agents arrest people outside schools and shopping malls. State lawmakers have passed a series of proposals to deal with Tuesday’s crackdown and ban immigration authorities from entering non-public areas of schools or hospitals without a warrant.

“Unless students feel safe, they cannot learn.” “For decades, we have reached bipartisan agreements to keep educational institutions, schools, campuses, and no immigration enforcement activities.”

The legislation was supported by Tony Thurmond, the state principal who oversees public teaching in the California public school system.

“Our immigrant families live in fear and we have limited time to move. The school year has begun, and it is time to make a decisive effort to protect our communities and use schools as a safe place to learn,” Thurmond said.

Other Democratic-led countries have introduced legislation this year to protect immigrants in their homes, encounters by police at work and in Trump’s massive deportation program.

As the unified school year in Los Angeles began last month, officials urged immigration authorities not to conduct law enforcement activities near campus during school hours. According to the Teachers Union, the country’s second university district includes about 30,000 immigrant students, with an estimated one-quarter of them not having legal status.

In August, federal immigration agent Detained A 15-year-old boy was at the gun outside Los Angeles High School, a case that has caused widespread anger in the city.