California teachers are using taxpayer-funded time to patrol schools and warn illegal immigrants about federal immigration enforcement, sparking outrage as the Los Angeles Unified School District faces potential bankruptcy by 2027.
Teachers Drive Patrols During School Hours
Lupe Carrasco Cardona, an ethics teacher at Los Angeles Unified School District, revealed she drives around schools with the activist group Union del Barrio searching for Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. During a CBS ride-along outside Edward R. Roybal Learning Center in downtown Los Angeles, Cardona spotted a Ford Explorer with tinted windows and instructed her colleague to photograph the vehicle. The car turned out to belong to a private citizen. No ICE agents were found despite multiple false alarms.
Cardona explained her patrol methods focus on vehicles with tinted windows or those double-parked near schools. She claimed the group receives tips from community members about possible federal agent activity. The teacher insisted her team does not engage with agents directly, only alerts the community to their presence. United Teachers Los Angeles chapter chair Jon Paul Arciniega defended the operation, calling it beautiful to witness teachers devoting personal time to watching neighborhoods.
Public Backlash Grows Online
Social media erupted with criticism over teachers using their positions to help illegal immigrants evade federal law enforcement. Conservative commentator Libs of TikTok questioned why taxpayer-funded educators would protect people in the country illegally, suggesting the patrols prove Los Angeles schools enroll illegal immigrant students. Multiple users contrasted the teacher patrols with the absence of similar efforts to combat crime, drug dealing, or prostitution in city parks.
Critics pointed out the troubling priorities as Los Angeles Unified School District returns to school this week facing severe budget cuts and layoffs. The nation’s second-largest school district could exhaust its cash reserves by 2027. On July 2, Los Angeles County Superintendent Debra Duardo issued a rare Lack of Going Concern determination, warning the district may fail to meet financial obligations during the 2027-28 and 2028-29 school years.
Federal Enforcement Continues Despite Resistance
The teacher patrols come as ICE maintains operations in California despite local resistance. Earlier this week, federal agents arrested Charles Peter Billone, a 64-year-old Canadian fugitive who lived in California for 30 years while wanted for sexually assaulting a child in his home country. The arrest demonstrated ICE’s continued effectiveness despite organized efforts to interfere with enforcement operations targeting illegal immigrants and fugitives from justice across the state.
lock them up and fire them from teaching
AMEN and do not let them receive any unemployment or welfare benefits
Love your comment Mr. Cook. I totally agree.
Teachers should be FIRED.
That activity could land them in Jail with the Illegals!
I believe it’s obvious what needs to be done. These teachers should pay back what they illegally took by doing this on the Taxpayer dime, along with lose their retirement, be fired, etc… This is unexceptable behavior.
Yes
Teachers do not teach any more, they indoctrinate our children into their hatred of ordinary American citizens who pay taxex.They are led by socialists leaders of their unio.
Amen!
Brainwashed in college and then passing it on to students with their breaking the laws of our country.
What are they “teaching” our kids about law enforcement and about borders?
Don’t get in the way of something that is none of your business. You WILL be arrested for interfering with Federal Officers, and there’s nothing that your union or your laughing stock of a school can or will do for you. Idiots.
They may have graduated with degrees in teaching, but they’re still a bunch of airheads. They’re the poster children for promoting home schooling.
Is it any wonder that children leave school illiterate/semi-illiiterate when their so-called teachers steal from taxpayers to fund activities that are not a part of their mandate.
I do not support public educ/indoctrination. In any way shape or form.I can’t figure out what they do teach, certainly not Plato or Aristotle’, Da Vinci or Einstein!
Teachers only to help illegals because more kids legal or not gives more teacher jobs.
Teachers have no morals!
If they got that much free time while working then they can look for another job.
If they are worrying about the illegals that don’t even pay taxes or their pay th we n they need to go to Mexico and take a few with them.
I taught for 40 years, but am glad I am retired These teachers are violating laws and should be fired and locked up. Not all teachers feel the way they do.
Maybe ICE will take the stupid teachers along with the illegals and deport them all if they love illegals so much. I am sick of having to support illegals here in Communist Colorado.
They are against ICE which is legal but are for allowing children to be taken from school by complete stranger without parental consent or knowledge? California is being run by a satanic cabal.
Your tax dollars hard at work
Sorry, but those aren’t “teachers”……They’re activists!
Southern California schools are going bankrupt. It takes 12 to 15k in taxes per year for every student. How many illegal parents pay that in taxes each year to simply cover the cost of their childs education. Not to mention all the other services paid for by the taxpayer. Medical and hospitals. It isn’t any wonder citizens want these people out. If the Dems want illegals so bad why don’t they take them into their own homes and cover their expenses. I for one am sick of illegals and don’t try and tell me they don’t get gov help. Why these teachers insist on carrying on this way escapes me, rather than doing their job. How can a student graduate from high school and can’t read and write??
Here I used to pull for teachers and what they go through but hell with that.
Get rid of em if possible