A Northern California special education teacher has been placed on administrative leave after posting a comment endorsing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Facebook.
Sarai Jimenez, a teaching intern at MacQuiddy Elementary School in Watsonville, made the comment last month with her now-deleted Facebook account.
Responding to news of ICE presence in the area, she wrote simply, “Yay!!! We need ICE in Watsonville!! It’s been getting out of hand.”
The post quickly caught the attention of local activists, and the backlash intensified after recent ICE arrests in the town.
According to a report from the New York Post, Jimenez was threatened by multiple people, with one vowing to “pop her tires.”
Another outraged anti-ICE liberal labeled her a “shameful disgraceful disgusting woman” and suggested she might harm immigrant children in her care.
“Who knows what you’ll do behind closed doors to the kids of parents that are immigrants,” the person wrote.
Of course, liberal activists began rallying to make calls to the school and demand her termination.
A woman named Beth Yvette Limas wrote on a Santa Cruz Community Facebook page, “This piece of trash needs to get fired and away from our children!!!”
The post received nearly 200 comments, mostly in agreement.
“Let all call Pajaro Valley School District. She should not work with our children,” a woman named Penny Kariofillis responded.
A whopping 84 percent of the Pajaro Valley Unified School District’s students are Hispanic.
Jimenez has apologized for the comment, but that has not stopped the mob.
“I’m sorry that the comment was taken out of context,” Jimenez told local paper Lookout Santa Cruz. “But my actions speak so much louder than all those hateful bullies’ words.”
The school is reportedly looking for a “long-term substitute” to take over the class.
The Lookout report added:
Pajaro Valley Federation of Teachers president Brandon Diniz said the union is aware of the online controversy over the comment.
“I have not seen a member be fired for posting a comment on social media, but I also haven’t seen any comments that rise to this level of concern and blatant disrespect for our local community,” he said. “Because in our community, we value our neighbors.”
He said he can’t comment on individual discipline cases and wouldn’t disclose her name, citing privacy concerns, but he said “the employee” has had a social media presence for a while, including past anti-immigrant video posts. Diniz said these perspectives are “unusual” among the district’s teachers and the union’s membership.
All for supporting law enforcement.
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