ICE director says agents won't be at D.C. schools on the first day -- but may be going forward

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Source: NBC News

Aug. 22, 2025, 7:01 PM EDT / Updated Aug. 22, 2025, 7:17 PM EDT


BRUNSWICK, Ga. — Acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Todd Lyons said parents in Washington, D.C., should not expect to see ICE officers visiting schools when kids go back to school in the nation’s capital on Monday. But he said there may be circumstances when ICE comes on school campuses in the future.

“Day one, you’re not going to see us,” Lyons told NBC News in an interview on Thursday.

But he did not rule out the possibility of ICE needing to come on school campuses in the future in special circumstances. Lyons said ICE officers may need to make welfare checks on students in the district or anywhere in the U.S. if they were identified as an unaccompanied child when they crossed the southern border.

“We want to use our special agents and our officers to go ahead and locate these individuals. And if [there are] some we haven’t, and the last known address was at a school, we just want to make sure that child is safe,” Lyons said. “If we have the opportunity to reunite that parent with that child, that’s what we want to do.” Lyons also said there could be an “exigent circumstance” that would require ICE to go onto a school campus.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/ice-schools-first-day-washington-dc-immigration-agents-todd-lyons-rcna226516

[orangecrush]

1. "Welfare checks"

To send them to the gulag

[bluedigger]

2. As long as they follow the rules.

Guns and masks are fine, but no phones! Too distracting.

[Magoo48]

3. OK, schools and kids need to devise systems to protect those at risk.

If schools won’t do it, then parents and students must implement warning and prevention protocols, covertly if necessary, to insure all kids are protected during these incursions.

[travelingthrulife]

4. dangerous criminal immigrants in those grade schools.

Another unjustified "emergency" and our useless legal system just nods their heads and goes along with it.

[Blues Heron]

5. "We just want to make sure that child is safe." We are talking ICE here- safety is the VERY last thing on their minds

They are lying like all fascists do when their mouths are flapping open and sounds are coming out.

[bluestarone]

6. This ICE comment "they won't be there on the first day" tells me that

They WILL be there on the first day.

[Bayard]

7. But they will be there on the second day

I think some parents will be keeping their kids home.

[Quanto Magnus]

8. So he's basically saying

don't show up, cause you'll never know when we show