Federal officials from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) attempted to conduct wellness checks at two elementary schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District, focusing on unaccompanied minors. However, Superintendent Alberto Carvalho stated that such actions are unprecedented in the district's recent history. The school principals denied DHS entry, adhering to established protocols trained to staff to prepare for potential interventions. Carvalho, who himself arrived in the U.S. undocumented, expressed the school district's duty to protect all students, particularly those without legal status, amid the backdrop of heightened immigration enforcement.
I have no evidence, nor do I have information of a wellness check conducted by the Department of Homeland Security having taken place in Los Angeles, not only this year, last year, or going back a number of years.
I'm a proud American by choice, not by chance. I arrived here as a poor, young teenager. I was once homeless in this country.
I know what the fear of your life circumstance can be and the impact it can have on a young person. I still feel it today, I taste, I remember it.
We, in fact, anticipated this type of action would occur in Los Angeles, considering the demographic profile of our community and of our student body.
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