A prominent local teachers union has expanded the scope of their work. The New York City Federation of Teachers is a union which counts most of the teachers in the five boroughs as members.
A video making the rounds on social media exposes an educator explaining how illegal aliens seeking to avoid deportation can slip a laminated card under the door of their residence to dissuade ICE officers from arresting them.
NEW: New York City teachers' union is coaching illegal immigrant families on how to avoid ICE at home and in public.
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) February 8, 2025
The United Federation of Teachers is telling teachers to print and hand out "red cards" in newly leaked footage obtained by the New York Post.
"If ICE comes to… pic.twitter.com/50SjzE4PEf
For many, the video conjures memories of teachers unions heavy involvement in aspects of the Covid lockdown. Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, was the public face of the teaching profession for much of the pandemic.
Of course, in those heady days, there was a logical reason for teachers to be involved in the situation: whether school should go on as usual was a hotly debated subject. Would children be vectors of the disease? What about the teachers? Masking? Social distancing?
While topical, Weingarten's input was perceived by many to be outsized. She was one in a cast of unelected bureaucrats who steered the fate of millions. Her recommendations turned out to be disastrous. A generation of children with social and emotional deficiencies, and the attendant loss of learning.
In a 2023, Mike Pompeo went so far as to call Weingarten "the most dangerous person in the world". Pompeo claimed that, “If you ask, ‘Who’s the most likely to take this republic down?’ It would be the teachers’ unions, and the filth that they’re teaching our kids, and the fact that they don’t know math and reading or writing.”
After that kind of recent drubbing, one might think the unions would take a back seat concerning an issue so far afield of education as illegal aliens. There is a tertiary connection--children of illegals in our public schools--but that's thin ice for a teachers union, especially considering that having large numbers of alien children in the classroom poses greater risks and challenges to teachers.
Back to helping aliens avoid ICE: the NYC Federation of Teachers has plunged into murky legal waters by offering explicit advice to criminals about evading their lawful arrest.
Regardless of any punitive judgments levied against them, the union has defined itself as an entity willing to jeopardize itself in the furtherance of a crime. This choice will lead many to assume that the union is receiving funds from the international shell game exposed by the Dept. of Government Efficiency (DOGE). If not from USAID specifically, some other entity within the DC dark money empire.
Can anyone confirm that the U.S. Dept of Education @usedgov has OFFICIALLY been shut down?
— DR JANE RUBY™️ (@RealDrJaneRuby) February 10, 2025
If so, this is a win for the American people
The Department of Education's budget for fiscal year 2025 is $82.4 billion, with an average salary of $112,164, 56% higher than the average… pic.twitter.com/aeeJIqxrb2
The NYC Federation of Teachers just put a bullseye on their back, and President Trump is already eyeing the Dept. of Education as a potential budget cut. As reported by Barron's: "Underscoring his intention, the Republican president had earlier directed Linda McMahon, his education secretary nominee, to 'put herself out of a job.'"
While the state of the DOE remains unclear at the time of writing, employees of the mammoth federal agency have been denied entry to their Washington offices. This is a developing story.
