National Education Association President Becky Pringle speaks during "March for Our Lives." (Joshua Roberts/Reuters)
"NEA is one of this administration’s top targets," Pringle said on the call, going on to label Trump a "dictator."
"Dictators always come for educators," she said, adding that teachers help students "question and analyze" and "fight and make this world a better place."
Pringle added, "Together, we will demand that this administration stop scapegoating immigrants just so they can implement cruel and callous policies and occupy our communities."
Pringle claimed that ICE is attempting to bring "fear and trauma into our schools" by "traveling through neighborhoods, wandering past schools, and following school buses."
"They've even assaulted and detained educators and students on school grounds. Educators are seeing this damage every day."
The Sunrise Movement is a far-left organization that vows to "force the government to end the era of fossil fuel elites, invest in Black, brown and working class communities, and create millions of good union jobs," according to its website.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection police officers stand outside the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building during a protest on Saturday, Jan. 17, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)
"Their federal charter was granted because they promised to ‘elevate the character and advance the interests of the profession of teaching; and to promote the cause of education in the United States,'" Sanzi told Fox News Digital in November. "Seeing as their leadership — and by extension, the organization itself — has morphed into a far-left insane asylum that is actively destroying the cause of education, that charter is no longer defensible."
In January, a whistle-blower in the NEA told Fox News Digital the organization is not focused on the needs of students and teachers, but rather on promoting far left agenda items.
"It's a cult," the NEA employee said. "It's 100% a cult and if you don't have their mindset, you're the enemy."
Fox News Digital’s Peter Pinedo and Joshua Q. Nelson contributed to this report.
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