San Diego college board member agrees migrant youngsters must be deported

A San Diego college board member has enraged the left after saying deporting migrant youngsters made faculties “higher.”

“The extra unlawful aliens with youngsters are deported from Ramona, the higher the student-to-teacher ratio,” Maya Phillips, a Ramona Unified Faculty District board member, mentioned at the March 4 assembly.

She went on to clarify the discount within the scholar inhabitants, given their authorized standing, would make “higher the standard of training for our American and authorized immigrant youngsters,” and justified her views “from a sensible perspective.”

In an e-mail to CBS 8 San Diego, the board member mentioned she doesn’t decide one facet over the opposite, however slightly made a sensible commentary.

The California Submit has reached out to Phillips for additional remark.

San Diego County — dwelling to an estimated 150,000+ undocumented immigrants — has been particularly affected by nationwide immigration enforcement.

In 2025, little one detentions rose sharply: Greater than 250 youngsters have been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in San Diego and Imperial counties.

Phillips mentioned households who come to the US illegally make a selection and put their youngsters in environments such because the one at present within the US.

“I wish to reassure American households in our district and immigrant households who’re right here legally that they don’t have any purpose to fret about immigration enforcement and no trigger for his or her youngsters to overlook college,” the trustee mentioned.

“As for households of unlawful aliens, the concern and concern about immigration enforcement is completely acceptable, warranted, well-placed and justified.

“It’s a option to be within the nation illegally, and fogeys select to place their youngsters on this state of affairs of fixed concern of enforcement.”

Phillips herself immigrated from St. Petersburg, Russia in 1999 and have become a US citizen in 2006.

“These feedback have been made by Trustee Phillips within the portion of the assembly designated for board members’ particular person feedback,” Daryn Drum, president of the Ramona Unified Faculty District Board of Trustees, instructed CBS 8.

“Our Faculty Board, academics, workers and District work extremely exhausting every single day to create an academic surroundings that’s secure, welcoming and non-judgmental for all college students.”

Mother and father and neighborhood members are angered. “I disagree with these feedback,” Talia Maya mentioned.

“I believe as educators, the kids at all times come first, proper? Like their security, them feeling included and them feeling like they belong, ,” one other mum or dad, Jenny Velasco, added.

“So it’s simply unlucky to know that in 2026 we’re nonetheless having these conversations of individuals being known as unlawful or this or that, however they’re not seeing them as people, ? They’re seeing [children] as numbers or statistics,” Velasco mentioned.

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