As reports of suspected ICE activity in East Nashville spread last week, families, educators and community members mobilized to protect students.
They gathered at bus stops in the afternoon, keeping a watchful eye in case immigration authorities showed up. Some drove home students who did not feel comfortable walking or taking the bus. Teachers called families with immigrant backgrounds one by one to inform them that ICE was in the neighborhood, and that their children were safe at school. (Activity had been reported at Sip Cafe, about a block from Dan Mills Elementary.)
While Christine Pulle and other parents monitored the bus stop at her daughter’s middle school, her husband drove around Inglewood, on the lookout for ICE vehicles. She returned to the bus stop the next morning during drop-off…