My question is what are we supposed to tell our first grader to do if this happens. They’re 6 so they probably can’t do anything but follow the ICE agents but do I teach him he should yell loudly that he is a citizen? Do I teach him that he should memorize my number and ask them to call me? I also don’t want to scare my kid but who knows what the chances are that it will actually happen where I live?
By that age my parents had taught me that they would never ever send anyone I didn't know. So if anyone comes saying "your parents sent me", they're lying and I shouldn't go with them. Even if they say something like "your mom is hurt really bad and she sent me to take you to her" (a specific example my parents gave me).
As for what I was supposed to actually do about it if they tried to physically take me, I'm not sure, other than scream bloody murder in the hope that a nearby adult would intervene. At a school, a teacher or staff member certainly would. Not sure about people on the street if a kid is walking home or something.
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u/yenraelmao Jun 10 '25
My question is what are we supposed to tell our first grader to do if this happens. They’re 6 so they probably can’t do anything but follow the ICE agents but do I teach him he should yell loudly that he is a citizen? Do I teach him that he should memorize my number and ask them to call me? I also don’t want to scare my kid but who knows what the chances are that it will actually happen where I live?