Franklin Park, IL – Illinois Federation of Teachers President Dan Montgomery and West Suburban Teachers Union, AFT/IFT Local 571, President Kyle Stern issued the following statement on today’s fatal ICE shooting of a Franklin Park resident:

“We are heartbroken by today’s fatal incident in which a man was shot and killed by an ICE agent near a Franklin Park school. Violence has no place in our communities, and it should never occur near schools where children learn and families gather. This incident intensifies the fear that immigrant families, and indeed Black and Brown American citizens