(14 Aug 2025)
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Los Angeles – 14 August 2025
1. Mid of children walking to school with backpacks
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Ingrid Villeda, Community Coordinator :
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"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."
3. Mid of parents and children arriving at the 93rd Street Elementary School of the Los Angeles Unified School District and volunteers greeting them.
4. Mid of of Villeda giving instructions to other volunteers patrolling around the school
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Ingrid Villeda, Community Coordinator :
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“We also had volunteers come and help us. 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.”
6. Wide of volunteers walking towards a corner to help welcome the kids to the school
7. Wide of volunteers walking towards a corner to help welcome the kids to the school
8. Mid of children and parents feet walking to school
9. Wide of sign announcing the first day of school
10. Mid of a man holding a "Stands with Immigrants" sign outside the school gate
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Alma Medina, Parent Representative:
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“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.”
12. Mid of children walking to school
13. Mid of Villada speaking in a walkie-talkie
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Ingrid Villeda, Community Coordinator :
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“We had a couple students that were walking along that could not be accompanied by a parent. But they were greeted by our staff members in the orange vests. And they told us they felt comfortable coming to school."
15. Mid of volunteers at the entrance of the school
16. Wide of a "Welcome Jaguars" banner at entrance gate of the school
17. Mid of children and their parents entering the school
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.
Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent Alberto Carvalho has urged immigration authorities not to conduct enforcement activity within a two-block radius of schools, starting an hour before the school day begins and until one hour after classes let out.
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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