Overview

• An amended complaint was filed Sept. 10 in federal court in Eugene, Oregon, with the NEA and AFT joining an April suit brought by an Oregon farmworker union and several churches.
• The suit challenges DHS’s rescission of its 2021 guidance limiting enforcement at schools and houses of worship under the Administrative Procedure Act, with churches also pressing First Amendment claims.
• Plaintiffs detail incidents including an ICE arrest in a Beaverton preschool parking lot that led to a lockdown and a Los Angeles encounter where a 15-year-old was handcuffed and later released.
• Educators report heightened anxiety, drops in attendance and enrollment, and reluctance to seek services, while reporting notes no known ICE entries into school buildings for enforcement.
• DHS replaced the prior policy early in Trump’s term with a directive to use “common sense,” government comment is pending, and the case before Judge Ann Aiken follows a July motion to dismiss by federal attorneys.