GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas – A Texas school district is considering the possibility of housing unaccompanied immigrant children at a vacant school, and locals seem to be split on the idea.

Several Grand Prairie residents spoke at a recent school board meeting about a proposal to use the community’s vacant Lamar Alternative School to house immigrant children coming into the city, but not everyone thinks it’s the best idea, ABC reports.

“We’re wanting to infiltrate them into our communities where we lose track of them, and it’s a problem, immigration is a problem in this country,” one Grand Prairie resident said at the district’s board meeting yesterday. “So I want you to think – are we enabling or are we helping?”

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Another woman, who immigrated to the United States from Canada several years ago and is still working to get her own daughter into the country, doesn’t believe the town should support immigrants who break the law to gain entry into the U.S., the news site reports.

“I have a biological daughter waiting in another country to come be with me, and then I see that other people, they don’t obey the laws, they just come, and I don’t think that’s fair,” resident Heidi Slaughter said.

Several others at the meeting wanted the school board to show compassion for the young immigrants, and urged the school board members to do what they can to help them.

“I think as humans and as churches and as citizens of the city, we have the opportunity to love these children,” Matt Henslee, a pastor at Inglewood Baptist Church, told board members, according to ABC.

“They are asking not to be raped. They are asking not to be murdered,” another woman said. “Those are the things these children are trying to escape.”

School officials did not decide on the issue, and opted instead to hold more meetings with the public and government agencies dealing with the growing epidemic of unaccompanied immigrant children crossing the border before making a final decision on the proposal, ABC reports.