The National Education Association hosted a webinar on Wednesday to encourage teachers to oppose President-elect Donald Trump's immigration reforms, saying their goal was to make students who are in the U.S. illegally "less afraid."

"Currently, there are laws prohibiting immigration agents from venturing onto school property, so various people in the Trump administration want to get rid of that," said Jennifer Berkshire, author of "The War on Education."

Trump said his focus will be on targeted deportations of violent criminals who enter the country illegally, including first arresting terrorists and cartels.

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"Teachers, including aspiring educators, have a real role to play in having conversations with these groups and figuring out ... what we can do within our schools to try to keep these kids from feeling uncomfortable," Berkshire said. So scared."

She also singled out Oklahoma Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters, who said in September that he wanted to put a Bible in every school in the state.

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“The reality is, whether it’s schools, school boards with book bans or extremist candidates or Ryan Walters types, you know, insisting that teachers teach from the Bible or lose their The certifications, uh, are getting more and more, and it does feel like a circus," Berkshire said.

The National Education Association is an organization with more than 3 million members. Their president, Rebecca S. Pringle, has previously called the Trump administration “cruel, deceitful and corrupt.”

Chelsie Acosta, chair of the NEA's Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Committee and an American Civil Liberties Union board director, said she "cares" about her community.

"When I started...with the ACLU, it was during Trump's first term, so it's kind of bittersweet...we're now in his second term," Acosta said. "I didn't expect that we would "

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The webinar was opened by Caitlin Ehlers, a member of the NEA Aspiring Educators Program and Board Director of the Washington Student Education Association, with a thank you.

“We begin by acknowledging that we meet on the traditional lands of many First Nations, lands that participants call the lands where they live and work. I speak to all of you on the traditional lands of the Duwamish people, these lands Elliot Point is governed by the Aboriginal Treaty,” Ehlers said.

“We honor the first people of this land and all of their elders, past, present and emerging, and we are called to learn and share what we have learned about tribal history, culture and contributions , this knowledge has been suppressed in telling the American story.”

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