Protecting their students from ICE, the other job for some teachers in the US: ‘They can’t take any of our children’

One hour before classes start at hundreds of Los Angeles schools, elementary teachers Ingrid Villeda and Olga drive through the southside neighborhoods of the city, where Hispanic residents are the majority. It is 6.58 am and many in this neighborhood are still asleep. As they approach two black pickup trucks, they slow down and watch them closely. They suspect the vehicles could belong to agents from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), possibly stationed there awaiting the start of a raid. Ingrid takes out her cellphone and photographs the license plates of one of the vehicles. A few blocks later, Ingrid sums up the purpose of their volunteer work in one sentence: ‘They can’t take any of our children.’

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