Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools added a new section on Immigration and Customs Enforcement to its law enforcement regulations earlier this month amid scrutiny of its approach to handling immigration enforcement.
The new guidelines, Section IV of O-ELX/R, provide the most detailed public outline yet of the district’s procedures for responding to ICE operations. It comes as school districts across the country scramble to respond to uneasy communities after the Trump administration allowed ICE to conduct operations on schools last year.
Among other things, it instructs principals to ask ICE agents to leave campus if they don’t have a valid warrant or subpoena — and to call the CMS Police Department if agents refuse…