Liam Ramos, 5, isn’t the only child in detention. Teachers and parents describe kids being hunted by federal agents.

School leaders are caught in the middle of this, trying to keep providing kids with a safe space to learn as their friends disappear and children cry about not knowing whether their parents will be home when they get off the bus.

Even Zena Stendvik, the superintendent of the Columbia Heights public school district, often patrols outside with parents and staff.

“I stopped wearing my high heels to work,” Stendvik told HuffPost. “I wear my boots to work, because I have had to run out onto a corner or into the back of the high school.”

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    The other day I there was a request for rapid response by my work. When I got there, several school buses were idling in the street, with parents lined up to meet them, for like 25 minutes. School policy is that kids stay on the bus until ICE has left the area.

    There was an SUV with 3 masked up agents just sitting there, heckling observers. They said, “If you guys would leave us alone, we could do our job.” I said, “Oh yeah? What’s your job?” and they said, “Catching the criminal illegal aliens and pedophile predators. Don’t you want us to protect the kids?” These smug fucks spend their weekday afternoons looming around bus stops, and if they miss a chance to snatch someone, they’ll settle for scaring little kids. The worst of the worst. There were about 50 parents, teachers and neighbors at the intersection by the time they gave up and left.

    They’re not winning the war, but they’re laying siege against our time, money and mental bandwidth. It’s exhausting.

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      I hate to say it, but it’s past time for armed militias to assemble and run these sick fucks out of there. They need to know that the people won’t fire the first shot but if one is fired, they and their dumbass buddies all die.

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      “Catching the criminal illegal aliens and pedophile predators. Don’t you want us to protect the kids?”

      Oh. Ok. So, can you show me the signed warrants that you have that prove you have cause to circle schools? How many pedophile predators have you caught that are white citizens or do you only look for ones with a darker shade? Have you caught the one in the big White House yet? There have been a whole slew of files provided the public on that one! Why can’t you all stop the shooters who hit up schools? Many are reported to the FBI before it even happens…

      How do we know you aren’t pedophiles? What’s your name and badge number so that we can verify that you are who you say you are.

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        Have they looked in the mirror? Because they’re the strangers hanging around the school watching the children and thinking about taking them.