LANSING, Mich. (Michigan News Source) – Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Leonard posted an image of a student-written survey distributed by a teacher that said U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials were “targeting people based on the language they’re speaking, their race, and where they work.”

Leonard said a teacher sent the questions to students, but Leonard is not identifying the school district because the parent didn’t want that published.

Survey questions.

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The two questions from the survey posted on Leonard’s X account stated:

“How do you feel about law enforcement targeting U.S. citizens such as Renee Good, Keith Porter Jr. and Alex Pretti as well as protesters that have been harmed?” and “How do you feel about I.C.E. targeting people based on the language they’re speaking, their race, and where they work?”

Keith Porter Jr. was confronted in California on New Year’s Eve by an off-duty ICE agent after Porter allegedly fired a rifle. Porter pointed the rifle at ICE agent during a confrontation and was shot and killed, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

Good allegedly hit a ICE agent with her car while obstructing an ongoing ICE investigation and was shot and killed by the injured agent.

Pretti was shot and killed while protesting ICE operations. Pretti was armed with a gun and struggled with the agents before being shot. Video of the incident appeared to show agents removing the gun from Pretti before he was shot.

“Political propaganda.”

“These aren’t questions—they’re political propaganda, telling students what to think instead of how to think,” Leonard said on X. “This isn’t education—it’s indoctrination. Parents should be outraged.”

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Leonard added, “According to the parent, the survey was written by a student or students but emailed out by a teacher as part of a class project. I’ve also been told by another person that other surveys were part of the project, but I have not personally seen those. My concern is that this survey was distributed by a teacher. I believe it’s appropriate to debate whether slanted surveys like this belong in our classrooms. I do not believe they do.”