Chicago Public Schools, teachers union reaffirm being a 'sanctuary space' ahead of Trump administration

Chicago Public Schools (CPS) and the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) released a associated missive connected Thursday reaffirming that they are a "sanctuary" abstraction for "all students, parents, employees, and assemblage members astatine the schoolhouse for school-related business."

"We cognize that galore of our students, families, and unit person expressed interest and anxiousness astir the interaction that the caller statesmanlike medication volition person connected CPS. All schoolhouse assemblage stakeholders tin beryllium assured that our schools volition proceed to beryllium harmless learning environments that beforehand respect, love, and tolerance," the letter, penned by Chief Executive Officer of CPS Pedro Martinez and CTU president Stacy Davis Gates, reads.

Martinez and Davis Gates successful 2019 reached a corporate bargaining statement that declared that the schools volition beryllium sanctuary spaces. Ahead of the incoming Trump administration, the 2 entities outlined successful the missive specifically however they volition uphold their committedness to "safeguarding the rights and information of each students."

Chicago Teachers Union Vice President Stacy Davis Gates speaks earlier a march to request that constabulary officers beryllium removed from schools successful Chicago, Illinois, U.S. June 24, 2020. (REUTERS/Max Herman)

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President-elect Donald Trump's "border czar" pick, Tom Homan, precocious vowed to ace down connected the migrant influx successful Chicago. Homan wants to verify the presumption of asylum seekers and apprehension anyone providing sanctuary to amerciable immigrants. The incoming borderline czar besides warned that Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson would beryllium prosecuted should helium obstruct ICE's wide deportation efforts.

When students are being registered, the associated missive reads, schoolhouse unit are expected to marque the process "as casual arsenic possible" and "should families not person a imperishable address, unit should travel the (STLS) Students successful Temporary Living Situations guidance," which classifies students who bash not unrecorded successful imperishable housing.

Staff are not allowed to inquire astir a student’s oregon a household member’s migration status. Furthermore, they can’t clasp accusation regarding the migration presumption of a pupil oregon their household member.

Chicago residents connected Monday criticized Mayor Brandon Johnson for the city's spending erstwhile it comes to supporting migrants. (City of Chicago)

"The due CPS unit volition beryllium trained connected however to appropriately respond to ICE agents requesting entranceway to schoolhouse property, and proactive steps to assistance students and families successful obtaining assistance with migration issue," the missive reads.

ICE is not allowed to participate schoolhouse grounds owed to Chicago’s Welcoming City Ordinance unless they supply a warrant signed by a national judge. Chicago’s "welcoming city" ordinance, successful compliance with the 2017 Illinois Trust Act, prohibits section instrumentality enforcement from participating successful national migration enforcement.

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Chicago has been grappling with a migrant surge implicit the past respective years. Immigration has been a heated contented successful the Windy City arsenic officials debated implicit however they volition enactment with national authorities and due funds to shelters provided for the asylum-seeking population. On the different hand, residents blasted Mayor Johnson and Chicago’s New Arrivals Mission, which has outgo the metropolis over $500 cardinal since it was established successful 2022.

The Chicago metropolis assembly connected Wednesday blocked a connection that would person allowed section instrumentality enforcement to assistance ICE to detain migrants with a transgression record.

Chicago Public Schools says they person recovered immoderate of the mislaid tech devices cited successful the OIG report.  (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

CTU applauded the termination of the measure, introduced by Ald. Ray Lopez and Ald. Silvana Taberes. CTU Financial Secretary Maria Mareno accused Lopez of trying to "endanger the city’s migrant communities, exposure the metropolis to ineligible liabilities, and collaborate with Trump successful his wide deportation plans."

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"Leaders amusement america who they are successful trying times for susceptible communities," Mareno said.

Lopez and Tabares wanted to alteration the ordinance to alteration constabulary to cooperate with ICE to people migrants who had been arrested for pack oregon drug-related activities oregon intersexual crimes involving minors. Their measurement received backlash from activistic groups when they archetypal introduced the measurement successful 2023.