Border Patrol: Not Targeting Schools, Buses, Churches

U.S. Border Patrol officials are vehemently rejecting claims that they are targeting schools, school buses, and churches as part of the Trump administration’s efforts at mass deportations of illegal immigrants.

The Alice Independent School District in southeastern Texas warned parents in a letter Wednesday that Border Patrol agents might be checking the immigration status of students on school buses traveling for extracurricular activities before retracting the letter, the Texas Tribune reported Friday.

“The United States Border Patrol has a long history of defending our country and our borders,” Border Patrol Chief Michael Banks said in a video posted Friday on his X account. “Let me be very clear: United States Border Patrol agents do not target schools, school buses or churches.”