(14 Aug 2025)
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Los Angeles, CA – 14 August 2025
1. Mid of children walking to school with backpacks
2. Mid of parents and children arriving at the 93rd Street Elementary School of the Los Angeles Unified School District and volunteers greeting them
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Ingrid Villeda, Community Coordinator :
"Today we began our community patrols at 6:45 a.m. making sure that we didn’t see any ICE agents or ICE activity, any vehicles parked. We patrolled the whole entire community."
4. Mid of of Villeda giving instructions to other volunteers patrolling around the school
5. Wide of volunteers walking towards a corner to help welcome the kids to the school
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Ingrid Villeda, Community Coordinator :
“We also had volunteers come and help us from the Community for Self Defense coalition. I’m a member of Union del Barrio as well, and we had staff members too. We wanted to ensure that our families saw that it was safe for them to walk to school and walk back home, and for them to be able to do their drop-off for the first day of school safely.”
7. Mid of children and parents feet walking to school
8. Mid of a man holding a "Stands with Immigrants" sign outside the school gate
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Alma Medina, parent representative:
“They feel nervous because of the situation about immigration. That’s why the kids don’t want to be on the streets or at school. The problem right now is they don’t want to be around the neighbors, around the schools, around the grocery stores. That’s why we’re here and help them.”
10. Mid of children walking to school
11. Mid of volunteers at the entrance of the school
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Ingrid Villeda, Community Coordinator :
“The orange vest folks are staff members who have been reassigned to interact with the community. Their primary role, they parent representatives, they are supposed to bridge the relationship between the school and the community. For us, it felt that was great fit for them to be outside welcoming the community and also walking the neighborhood."
13. Wide of a "Welcome Jaguars" banner at entrance gate of the school
14. Wide of sign announcing the first day of school
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Alma Medina, parent representative:
“The goal is for the kids to come to school safely, without any problems, with security”
16. Mid of children and their parents entering
STORYLINE:
Los Angeles students and teachers return to class for the new academic year on Thursday under a cloud of apprehension after a summer filled with immigration raids and amid worries that schools could become targets in the Trump administration’s aggressive crackdown.
At 93rd Street Elementary School, teachers, staff and other volunteers patrolled the neighborhood early before school started to see if there were any signs of federal immigration enforcement or agents in the area.
Later, they stepped outside wearing bright orange vests, welcoming students as they arrived and reassuring parents that their children would be safe.
“We wanted to ensure that our families saw that it was safe for them to walk to school and walk back home, and for them to be able to do their drop-off for the first day of school safely,” said Ingrid Villeda, a community coordinator.
The sprawling district, which covers more than two dozen cities, is the nation’s second largest, with more than 500,000 students. Some 30,000 students are immigrants, and an estimated quarter of them are without legal status, according to the teachers’ union.
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