LA schools superintendent says he'll protect undocumented students 'to the very end'

LAUSD superintendent Alberto Carvalho says he will continue to advocate for and support the hundreds of thousands of students in his district. Joe Raedle/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Joe Raedle/Getty Images Federal officials with the Department of Homeland Security visited two elementary schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District on April 7. The officials claimed they were conducting a wellness check on children they claim had arrived unaccompanied at the border. But Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent Alberto Carvalho told NPR such actions are not typical. "We have no evidence, nor do I have information of a wellness check conducted by the Department of Homeland Security having taken place in Los Angeles, not only this year, last year, or going back a number of years." In both cases the officials were denied entry by the school's principals. According to Carvalho, the school district has "a fairly rigid set of protocols specific to these types of act...