The Trump administration's federal surge focused on "making D.C. safe again" has also prompted increase immigration enforcement in the city. WASHINGTON — Parent groups in the District are bracing for a different back-to-school season amid a federal surge by the Trump administration and an increase in immigration enforcement that has led to the arrest of more than 250 undocumented immigrants, according to the White House. The immigration arrests in the District have both been targeted and collateral, meaning that undocumented immigrants encountered by federal immigration officials have been taken into custody even if they were not the intended target of the operation. "We are going to remove illegal criminals from our nation's capital," White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Tuesday. "They will be detained and deported." On Wednesday, WUSA9 asked DC Mayor Muriel Bowser about the concern from parents who are scared they might be picked by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as they are walking their students to school, she responded, "I think that people who have that concern for themselves personally and for all of those who are concerned for them, for their safety, are making adjustments." Parent groups tell WUSA9 that they are making adjustments and entire strategies for the first week of school. We spoke to parents in Northwest and Northeast D.C. who agreed to share the details about their plans under the condition that their names and schools would not be identified. Since President Donald Trump announced the increased presence of federal agents in the District on Aug. 11, parents say they began connecting immigrant parents with other families to help transport their students to and from school. One parent leader told WUSA9 that a mother reached out because she had not gone to work in over a week due to her fear that she would be arrested. Some parent groups plan to stand guard outside of D.C. schools during the entire first week of classes. They say they will be monitoring any potential activity of federal officials, but also hope to deter enforcement. A similar tactic was implemented last May following reports that ICE would be targeting bilingual schools in Northwest, D.C. Schools in the District will be following the DC Attorney General's guidance about ICE in schools issued earlier this year. The guidance says, "DC Schools may require warrants before permitting law enforcement, including ICE, to enter any school area, such as school buildings, classrooms, and fenced-in areas that may include schoolyards, playgrounds and parking lots. Generally, a warrant is not required for law enforcement to enter an area that is open to the public, such as a sporting stadium during an athletic event or an auditorium during a recital that the public is invited to attend." Immigration advocacy groups say they will also be in full force. "We built a collective who support each other whether it's to give rides in this moment in time," Nadia Salazar Sandi with Colectivo de Familias Migrantes told WUSA9. She says they have already been, "walking people to the bus stop, making sure people are safe. Walking people corner to corner, making sure people are getting to their locations." Salazar Sandi has been responding to alleged ICE sightings and said they have seen reports of federal agents making arrests near D.C. schools. Immigration law experts are also urging families to have a plan in place in case a parent is taken into custody. "What we don't want to happen, is we don't want people to be unprepared, and then they get picked up and they get deported and they didn't have their affairs in order," Genevieve Augustin, legal director with the Central American Resource Center (CARECEN), said. The Trump administration has not specified whether there will be increased enforcement amid the federal surge. President Donald Trump did rescind the sensitive locations policy at the Department of Homeland Security. Doing away with the policy green lights immigration enforcement at hospitals, churches and schools.