Students at Roosevelt High School captured audio of a longtime Fresno Unified teacher making racist and insulting comments about Mexicans and undocumented immigrants while questioning students about their legal status during class.
The teacher’s racist remarks came days during a week of heightened tension in Fresno’s largest school district over immigrants’ rights.
Tens of thousands of students in Fresno Unified, including about half of students at Roosevelt High, skipped school on Monday to protest President Donald Trump’s immigration policies . Hundreds more students at McLane High School walked out of school Friday afternoon in protest of potential mass deportations in the Central Valley…