LAUSD will open the new academic year deploying volunteers and staff, including school police, to protect children amid federal immigration enforcement actions.

L.A. Mayor Karen Bass, who is assisting LAUSD, called the situation a “profound” moment in U.S. history.

Trump administration denies targeting local high school in Monday incident.

Los Angeles public schools are opening Thursday for the new academic year confronting an intense and historically unique moment: They will be operating in opposition to the federal government’s immigration raids and have set in motion aggressive moves to protect children and their immigrant parents.

School police and officers from several municipal forces will patrol near some 100 schools, setting up “safe zones” in heavily Latino neighborhoods, wi

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