New York City teachers, students, parents and elected officials rallied in Lower Manhattan on June 4, demanding that the city’s Department of Education write formal protocols for what schools should do if immigration agents show up at their doors. Their central claim, first reported by amNewYork: ICE agents have been spotted near schools during morning drop-off, and no one working inside those schools knows how to respond.

The most specific account came from Julia Garland, an elementary school teacher in Sunset Park. Garland said ICE agents have been repeatedly seen driving past several schools in her neighborhood between 6 a.m. and 8 a.m., the window when parents are walking kids to class.

“It was scary. Parents were walking their children into school, knowing ICE was right there. In some cases, they had to walk right next to the confirmed ICE vehicles with ICE agents sitting in them, and no staff at the schools knew what to do,” Garland said. “They usually target adult men who are alone, so if you are a loving father walking your child to school after you drop them off, you are in real danger.”