Immigrant advocates in New Bedford cheered a recent vote by the city’s school committee to establish a “Safe Zone” for immigrant students. On Monday, the school committee passed the resolution, which was first introduced in February. For instance: school officials should check for a judicial warrant when ICE officers want to speak to a student. “If we don’t do anything about this, then they’re just going to repeat this again,” López Gonzalez said. “And they’re going to traumatize our community, and they are going to make [the kids] feel that they’re the worst criminals, when they’re not.”