At an urgent virtual town hall meeting Jan. 30, AFT President Randi Weingarten gathered legal experts and immigration advocates to provide sorely needed information to members worried over immigration policy changes that are instilling fear and trauma in their schools and healthcare facilities since President Trump took office. While immigration threats are numerous, the meeting focused on the new access Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers have to schools, hospitals and churches—places formerly considered “sensitive locations” and off-limits for ICE raids.
Our President and CEO, Gaby Pacheco, was one of the panelists, and she shared:
“Now more than ever, our immigrant children need defenders. … As teachers, as educators and as human beings, we have a moral obligation, a sacred duty, to protect each other, but especially children,” said Gaby Pacheco, president and CEO of TheDream.US. “This is not the moment for our hearts to be timid.”
Watch the townhall here: https://www.aft.org/news/town-hall-provides-tools-keep-immigrant-communities-safe