Kenneth Schlupp (Center Square)
For two days in a row, migrants have attempted to board San Diego-area school buses with children on board, in one case having to be steered away by parents and bus drivers, after school districts said buses would not stop when migrants were present.
Jamul-Durzura Unified School District Fox 5 On Tuesday afternoon, a group of three men walked down the middle of a highway and tried to stop a school bus, forcing the bus to take evasive action. On Wednesday morning, a group of 20 migrants tried to board a school bus at a bus stop where elementary school children were waiting with their parents to be picked up. The parents and the driver “intervened and kept the migrants at bay.”
“He was really confused. He said these adults were not children, they had backpacks and they were trying to get on our bus. And there were a lot of them,” Nicole Cardinale, whose 8-year-old son was already on the bus, told the TV station.
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The presence of the backpacks indicates that the individuals had recently crossed the border. Jamul is inland from San Diego, just north of the California-Mexico border.
“Today, I notified transportation parents of two recent incidents involving school buses on Highway 94. Both incidents involved people attempting to stop the bus at the bus stop or attempting to board the bus,” school district Superintendent Liz Bystead wrote in a letter to parents. “I want to thank the bus driver for keeping students safe and the parents who cooperated by not boarding the bus.”
Bystedt Written The school district said it has already contacted law enforcement, including the Border Patrol, about the incident. In an email to parents, Bystead also said buses will not stop at stops where migrants are present, and parents will have to ride the bus to the next stop where there are no migrants to pick up or drop off their children.
Distributed with permission From Centre Square.
