The spokesman for a pro-border enforcement group says Los Angeles school officials are unable to stop immigration officials despite a resolution declaring a "sanctuary policy" protecting illegal aliens.

The resolution enacted by the Los Angeles Unified declares that all schools are "sanctuaries" for any illegal alien students and their families — even criminal aliens — who might be facing deportation.

The resolution was enacted after an illegal alien was detained by U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement agents as he took his daughter to school in February.

Ira Mehlman, a spokesman for Federation for American Immigration Reform or FAIR, points out that the apprehension took place approximately a half-mile from the school she attended.

"There's no indication whatever - none - that ICE is interesting in going into schools to find illegal aliens. They're not doing it," he tells OneNewsNow.

That is why the school district's declaration is purely symbolic, he says.

The school district's action is also symbolic, says Mehlman, because ICE is a federal agency with the authority to go anywhere it wants in the country to apprehend illegal aliens.

"Essentially what LAUSD is saying ICE needs a hall pass to come and force the law, and they don't," he says.