Cal State La Lets Professors Move Classes Online Due To Student Fears Over Ice Immigration Enforcement

California State University, Los Angeles, is giving professors nan action of moving their classes online owed to students' fears astir Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). 

Heather Lattimer, assemblage provost and vice president for world affairs, said successful a letter to module this week, according to nan Los Angeles Times, that she had heard students are "scared to return nationalist transit and fearful of driving to campus."

Lattimer said faculty person "the action of moving remotely for a constricted clip owed to bonzer circumstances they are facing."

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Aerial position of Simpson Tower and Salazar Hall connected nan Cal State LA field connected May 27, 2024 successful Los Angeles, California.  (Photo by Kirby Lee/Getty Images)

The move comes arsenic LA has go a hotbed of protestation complete President Donald Trump’s migration enforcement successful nan city. 

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass Tuesday said nan metropolis would join nan class-action lawsuit to extremity what she called "the unconstitutional reckless raids successful nan LA region."

The class-action suit "Vasquez Perdomo v. Noem," led by The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of California and Public Counsel, a nonprofit, was revenge against nan Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and demands an contiguous extremity to nan migration raids successful nan Los Angeles area. 

Lattimer referenced nan Monday raid near MacArthur Park, an area known to pull crime.  

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 Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has called nan Trump migration raids unconstitutional.  (Getty Images)

"Recent events successful nan LA area — including nan beingness of heavy equipped migration agents successful MacArthur Park earlier this week — person near galore successful our organization concerned for their safety," Lattimer said. 

"This week besides marks nan 6-month day of nan wildfires that disrupted nan lives of galore successful our community," she added. "As a field we admit nan important harm that has resulted from these events and reaffirm our committedness to supporting our students, faculty, and unit and prioritizing your information and well-being."

She said nan assemblage wants to attack nan concerns successful a thoughtful way. 

"While we do not want to spell backmost to nan online people schedule we knowledgeable successful 2021 and 2022, location whitethorn beryllium circumstances wherever module take to connection students facing bonzer circumstances nan action of joining an on-campus people remotely via a zoom nexus aliases turning successful assignments remotely," Lattimer wrote.

Federal agents thrust connected horseback successful Los Angeles' MacArthur Park. (AP)

In a connection to Fox News Digital, assemblage spokesperson Erik Frost Hollins said module could make adjustments for peculiar students.

"Faculty are being supported successful making case-by-case adjustments for students successful bonzer circumstances," Hollins said. "Similarly, deans and section leads are supported successful making case-by-case adjustments for module and staff. These are each individual adjustments we tin make wrong existent policy. Importantly, we do intend to person a afloat and engaging on-campus student acquisition successful nan fall."

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