Fort Worth ISD investigates post inviting ICE agents to high school to arrest students
The Fort Worth Independent School District is investigating a social media post, purportedly written by a North Side High School substitute teacher, that seems to invite immigration officers to the school to arrest students, officials said.
The post was made in the comment section on X in response to a post by Immigration and Customs Enforcement giving the number of arrests for Jan. 23.
“Yall should come to Fort Worth, TX to Northside High School,” the post reads. “I have many students who don’t even speak English and they are in 10th-11th grade. They have to communicate through their iPhone translator with me. The @usedgov should totally overhaul our school system in Texas too.”
Fort Worth ISD school board member Roxanne Martinez confirmed that district officials are aware of the post.
“Please be assured that we are taking this situation very seriously and are committed to resolving it as quickly as possible,” Martinez said in a text message to the Star-Telegram.
The X account that screenshots show the post was made from, @HookEm232, has since been made private.
District officials said in a statement that they “are conducting a thorough investigation to understand the circumstances and ensure appropriate actions are taken.”
The employee in question won’t be on campus during the investigation per district protocol, officials said.
Fort Worth ISD doesn’t ask students or their families about their immigration status, Interim Superintendent Karen Molinar said in a letter to parents. All student records are kept confidential in accordance with federal law.
“At Fort Worth ISD, we are deeply committed to fostering schools where every student feels accepted, valued, and supported, regardless of their background or immigration status,” Molinar wrote in the letter.
Another Fort Worth ISD teacher was fired after making similar posts on X, then known as Twitter, in 2019. Georgia Clark, then an English teacher at Carter-Riverside High School, tweeted at President Donald Trump, asking for a federal crackdown on undocumented students at her school.
“Mr. President, Fort Worth Independent School District is loaded with illegal students from Mexico,” Clark wrote in one post. “Carter-Riverside High School has been taken over by them.”
“I do not know what to do. Anything you can do to remove the illegals from Fort Worth would be greatly appreciated,” she tweeted. “Georgia Clark is my real name.”
Clark also included two phone numbers where she could be reached. She later told a district investigator that she thought her tweets were private messages to Trump, not public posts viewable by all.
The board voted unanimously to place Clark on leave, then fired her in September 2019. Clark appealed her termination to the Texas Education Agency. Two months later, Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath ruled that the district had fired Clark wrongly and that she should get her job back, along with back pay from the time when her contract was not renewed. The district appealed that ruling, and in March 2021, the 250th District Court of Travis County upheld the board’s decision to fire Clark.
This article includes information from the Star-Telegram’s archives.
This story was originally published January 25, 2025 at 1:32 PM.
