Officials with a prominent Parent Teacher Association in one of Americas richest school districts recently used a taxpayer-adjacent platform to train parents on how to obstruct federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations.
According to The Post Millennial, the virtual Montgomery County, Maryland, PTA session, held January 20 and led by progressive Councilwoman Kristin Mink, instructed families on creating safe passages for illegal immigrants to get to and from school safely and on how to counter alleged ICE violence, echoing a broader left-wing push to undermine federal immigration enforcement.
The event, titled ICE Response & Organizing Tools for PTAs, Parents & Guardians, was promoted on the Montgomery County Council of PTAs social media, effectively turning a school-related body into an organizing hub against a lawful federal agency.
Minks training included guidance on how schools could arm themselves with tools to slow ICE down and protect each other, language that critics say edges dangerously close to encouraging interference with law enforcement. One slide went so far as to lecture parents on racial politics, declaring, Especially for white allies, whistles can represent a subconscious desire for authority, protection, or control in moments of crisis, and warning, But rapid response is not about assuming authority. ... When we question decisions made by those impacted, we risk centering our own comfort instead of impacted people.
The presentation drew backing from a familiar roster of left-leaning organizations, including the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the Montgomery County Association of Administrators and Principals (MCAAP), the Montgomery County Education Association, the Montgomery County Immigrant Rights Collective, and the Fans of Asylum and Immigration Reform. Their involvement underscores how deeply activist networks have embedded themselves in public education bureaucracies, often prioritizing ideological campaigns over academic excellence or parental choice.
Mink also injected environmental and racial rhetoric into the training, asserting, What feels activating or empowering to some can cause stress to others, and claiming that Black and Brown communities are already overexposed to chronic noise pollution due to racist zoning, redlining, and disinvestment. Rather than focusing on classroom performance or school safety in a traditional sense, the session framed ICE as the threat and positioned political agitation as a parental responsibility.
Her presentation comes amid a wave of anti-ICE agitation in schools nationwide, as activists seek to delegitimize immigration enforcement that President Trump and many conservatives view as essential to national sovereignty and the rule of law. In Utah, for example, middle and high school students recently walked out of class, with videos showing some throwing rocks at vehicles while others stormed through a local Walmart chanting, F*ck ICE! F*ck ICE!
Mink further claimed that ICE officers arrested two men as horrified children, caregivers and school staff watched outside a middle school in September, using the alleged incident to justify her organizing push.
We cannot, must not, and will not normalize an event like this, which leaves marks on the souls of not only those having loved ones violently ripped from them, but on those who witness it, she insisted, even though National Review did not find any documentation of ICE raids on Montgomery County Public Schools' property for the last year, raising serious questions about the factual basis for her alarmist narrative.
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