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Oklahoma superintendent who brawled with CNN over ICE getting into faculties doubles down: ‘Deported collectively’

Oklahoma superintendent who brawled with CNN over ICE getting into faculties doubles down: ‘Deported collectively’


Oklahoma State School Superintendent Ryan Walters pushed again after a conflict on CNN over his openness to permitting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers into faculties – with Walters doubling down and rejecting “sanctuary faculties.”

Walters had advised native media that he wouldn’t rule out permitting federal brokers into faculties to take away unlawful immigrants, amid an ongoing deportation operation since President Donald Trump took workplace.

The Trump administration has lifted a Biden-era “delicate locations” mandate, which prevented brokers from getting into faculties amid considerations that unlawful immigrants might use such locations to cover from enforcement. It has sparked pushback from some native officers.

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Oklahoma State School Superintendent Ryan Walters, left, is pushing again towards left-wing media retailers and Democrats after dealing with criticism for asserting his intention to cooperate with President Donald Trump’s unlawful immigration crackdown. (AP/Getty)

However, Walters, in an interview with Fox News Digital, stated that such strikes may very well be essential to keep away from household separation.

“Are the Democrats and now the left-wing media the party of household separation? If you will have adults which can be going to be deported from this nation, do you not need the Trump administration to know the place their children are, the place they’re enrolled at school, in order that if the household is to be deported, they’re truly deported collectively?” he requested.

It led to a livid back-and-forth with CNN host Brianna Keilar, who requested him if it will be traumatic for teenagers.

“Do you suppose it will be traumatic for college students to witness a raid of their faculty and college students forcibly faraway from their faculty? Do you suppose that might be traumatic?”

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CNN's Brianna Keilar and Ryan Walters

CNN host Brianna Keilar requested Ryan Walters to answer his feedback showing to help ICE raids in faculties. (CNN screenshot)

Walters answered, “I feel what can be traumatic is in the event you didn‘t give President Trump the knowledge essential to hold households collectively. So what you would favor is to simply deport the mother and father and have the children don’t know what occurred to their mother and father? What we‘re—”

“That’s not what I’m asking. I’m asking you….That’s by no means what I’m asking, superintendent,” Keilar interrupted once more.

Many members of the media have additionally taken problem with a current rule change by the Oklahoma State Board of Education, titled “Enhancing Enrollment Transparency,” which requires every faculty district to report the variety of college students enrolled in faculties who’re unable to offer proof of citizenship or authorized standing. According to the rule, the brand new coverage is designed to “present higher transparency” and to “help the wants” of the faculties and college students.

“We’re saying we need to see your driver’s license, we need to see which nation you got here from, in the event you’ve come into the nation illegally. I feel that could be a very commonsense requirement that we’re placing on the market. We need to guarantee that we’re asking for this info in order that we will precisely use sources and personnel within the state to teach our youngsters,” Walters defined. “I feel that our taxpayers or our residents perceive that. And the left tries to gaslight the American folks into performing like that is some type of absurd ask.”

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ICE and DEA migrant raids NYC

ICE and DEA migrant raids New York City. (Drug Enforcement Administration New York)

Speaking to Fox Digital, Walters stood by his stance, noting Trump’s victory on the voting sales space in November.

“We’re speaking about households, we’re speaking about adults, the adults are within the nation illegally. And we’re making an attempt to verify the Trump administration has the knowledge to maneuver ahead with essentially the most aggressive deportation coverage in our nation’s historical past that the American folks clearly help,” he stated.

“The president received an amazing victory along with his election. He received each swing state. He received each county in Oklahoma. So you have a look at this and also you say: ‘CNN, left wing media, Democrats, you do not need to have the actual dialog as a result of it requires you to confess you created this drawback.’ Now the adults are in cost making an attempt to repair it by shutting down the border, deporting unlawful immigrants,” he stated.

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 President Donald Trump indicators govt orders within the Oval Office on Jan. 20, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Walters additionally pointed to the impression of unlawful immigration on faculties in Oklahoma, together with the mandatory diversion of sources.

“While the left continues to exit and defend and champion the reason for unlawful immigrant criminals, we’re trying on the American citizen, Oklahomans, and we’re sitting right here saying, ‘hear, what in regards to the child that is over a 12 months behind in studying who we have now put in a tutoring program? They’re getting caught again up, now abruptly, all of the tutors should be diverted due to unlawful immigrants which have flocked to their metropolis and flocked to their hometown,’” he stated.

“Outlets like CNN and different left-wing retailers refuse to speak in regards to the compassion for the victims’ households who’ve been focused by the crimes dedicated by unlawful immigrants. They refuse to speak about compassion when it is your college students of American residents which have fallen behind at school, are working to get caught again up and but, all of their sources are being moved on the final minute. They refuse to speak about compassion whenever you see the deaths attributable to fentanyl, that oftentimes what a scholar tries it for the primary time and so they drop dead,” he stated. “Americans are uninterested in it.”

He additionally pointed to the move of medicine and criminals into the U.S. by way of the porous southern border.

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Ryan Walters

Oklahoma State School Superintendent Ryan Walters. (Courtesy of Ryan Walters)

“And we all know that over 99% of that fentanyl has come throughout the border. So the left, they’ll cry their crocodile tears. It’s full phony outrage that they act like that,” he stated. “They have compassion for unlawful immigrants. They haven’t any compassion for the American residents, for the American folks, for the American employee. And Americans are uninterested in it.”

Walters additionally stated that different states must be following Oklahoma’s instance and backing the deportation and border safety effort by the Trump administration.

“This nation is a legislation and order nation. We can’t proceed to permit legal exercise, we can’t proceed to permit sanctuary faculties,” he stated. “Listen, you aren’t getting to…harbor another criminals in a faculty system. We shouldn’t be permitting unlawful immigrants to enroll in our faculties, work in our faculties, and never get that info for the president, for the complete nation,” he stated.

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“Americans need to see an America First coverage. They’ve acquired that in President Trump,” he added. “They will see that right here in Oklahoma with our faculties. We will put our college students first. We will put American residents first. And we are going to proceed to work with President Trump and his staff as they’re doing an amazing job in not solely getting our faculties again on monitor however getting our nation again on monitor by bringing legislation and order again.”

Fox News’ Lindsay Kornick and Emma Woodhead contributed to this report.

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