Largest Teachers Union In U.S. Promotes Student Anti-ICE Walkouts

The National Education Association (NEA), the largest teachers’ union in the United States, has been promoting student walkouts in opposition to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activities.

The union has openly sent emails and distributed materials encouraging student participation in nationwide anti-ICE disruptions. According to an NEA email titled “Hold ICE Accountable and Prioritize Student, Community Safety,” the union stated that ICE “will bring their brutality to other states unless we act.”

The email urges recipients to contact members of Congress using a provided form letter that demands limitations on ICE’s authority.

In addition, the NEA’s website features signup options for alerts on the issue and includes fundraising appeals. Additionally, the site contains statements calling for the removal of ICE from “communities.”

Distributed materials suggest that ICE routinely enters schools to detain students, though reports indicate that ICE has not conducted raids in schools across the country.