According to Union del Barrio, Association of Raza Educators about 80- 100 San Diego teachers have gone through their training.
SAN DIEGO — Teachers and community members are now patrolling campuses across San Diego, on the lookout for ICE agents.
Last week, ICE agents agents arrested a father waiting to pick up his child, a block from Linda Vista Elementary.
“We’ve talked to parents, and parents are like, ‘I don’t want to send my child to school like that. I’m fearful.’ They’re they’re asking neighbors to cook, to grab their groceries for them. They don’t want to step outside because they don’t know, if something is going to be a threat to them,” said teacher Erendira Ramirez, a member of Union Del Barrio and Association of Raza Educators, two of the organizations training teachers and community members.
Tuesday morning, the group held one of its kick offs at Lincoln High School.
Ramirez said the training actually started months ago and so far, they have trained 80-100 teachers across the county.
Teacher patrols will begin in the morning before school starts. The group has vehicles with decals that read ‘Community Patrol’ in Spanish.
Ramirez said one of the things they want to see happen is if ICE agents are spotted, the school goes into lockdown mode.
“Because we don’t know what their intentions are, who they’re coming for, and we don’t need to expose the students to any unnecessary trauma,” she said.
“We urge the community to be vigilant and aware of what is normal, what is what they’re used to seeing in their community, so that when something is out of place, right, when you see somebody, a car that you don’t recognize, a car that’s looking like, you know, with very dark tinted windows, or they’ve been there, you know. And so it just kind of brings that alertness,” she added.
CBS 8 reached out to San Diego Unified to find out if they support what this group is doing. We will update this story when we hear back.