Normally, Andy Bunting spends the hour or so before his class begins at Hillsboro’s Eastwood Elementary School prepping for the day and chatting with colleagues.
On Friday, instead of his usual routine between 7 a.m. and the start of class at 8 a.m., Bunting and nearly a dozen other teachers and volunteers were posted at various points in the neighborhood around the school, watching out for their students — and for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Four days earlier, ICE reportedly detained a parent about 100 feet from the school shortly after drop-off. Federal agents have also been seen patrolling the neighborhood in the morning.
Immigration officers have hit the city of Hillsboro hard in the past two weeks. Between Oct. 14 and 23, ICE made at least eight arrests in Hillsboro, and four last Thursday alone…