Blame first
United States Citizenship and Immigration Services fraud investigators recently visited a New York City public school to see if parents of a particular student qualified for benefits. But the student wasn’t enrolled, and the officials left.
Before long, it was being reported that Immigration and Naturalization Services officials had come to the school to pick up the fourth-grader in question but were valiantly turned away by the school.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s press secretary took to Twitter to heap shame on the incident, followed by New York City’s Twitter account, which said “all students, regardless of status, are welcome … Fed imm[igration] enforcement is not. …”
That set off a Twitter storm by outraged liberals, blaming President Donald Trump. One even said, “I am finding it harder & harder to be proud to be an American …”