Clinton/Obama Event Cut Short by Teachers Demanding Release of their Students

Jul

Teachers Interrupt Clinton/Obama Event in State Where High Schoolers Were Raided

Tags: clinton, north carolina, obama, raids, students, teachers

The same day that the New York Times released an editorial naming the release of raided students as an urgent item for the President to take up, students of those teachers interrupted a campaign event of Candidate Clinton and President Obama in North Carolina, a state hit hard by recent ICE raids, calling for their release. Below is their statement.

President Obama & Former Sec. of State Clinton: Stop Deporting Our Students. Release Them Now.
#FreeWildin and Free all 12+ NC & GA youth jailed by ICE

We come here today as teachers, students and community members to demand that President Obama and former Secretary of State Clinton release all detained refugee youth back to their classrooms and communities.

Immigration enforcement agents are operating unchecked: raiding refugee families, snatching kids at bus stops, deporting youth back to gang violence, and holding students in detention centers and deportation proceedings for nearly 6 months. ICE is denying our students their right to an education and preventing many from graduating. Read more

May

Teachers of Raided Students Interrupt DHS Secretary at Commencement Speech

Tags: graduation, jeh johnson, north carolina, teachers, teens

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In the wake of the reports that the Department of Homeland Security is gearing up for a 30 day offensive targeting refugee mothers and children, the teachers of 9 high schoolers who have been held in detention since early 2016 interrupted Sec. Johnson at a commencement speech in Nashville, TN.

“We want to see our students graduate but that’s impossible when ICE agents stalk them outside their houses and DHS refuses to release them from detention,” explains Holly Hardin, a teacher who traveled from Durham, North Carolina, to confront Johnson. “Johnson has no business addressing high schoolers about their future when he’s thrown the future of refugee teens into jeopardy.”

Teachers and Students Tell Johnson to Stop the Raids

Sec. Johnson reacts to interrupters.

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