In Fresno, California, social media rumors around the upcoming immigration raids in urban schools have left some panicare parents – although they are raiding all fraud. In Denver, the real immigration Raid in the apartment complex has led to students’ results to stay home from schoolAccording to the lawsuit. In Alice, Texas, the school official said wrong to parents that border patrol agents can board school buses to check immigration paper.
Donald Trump President Donald Trump is already affecting schools across the country, because officials find themselves to respond to growing anxiety among parents and their children, including those who are legally here. Trump’s executive actions greatly Extended who is eligible for deportation and picked up a ban Implementation of immigration in schools.
Although many public and school officials work on encouraging immigrants to send their children to school, some did the opposite. Meanwhile, Republicans in Oklahoma and Tennessee presented proposals that would be difficult – or even impossible – for children in the country illegally and children born in the United States without documentation to attend school at all.
While weighing the risks, many families have struggled with the separation of facts from the rumor.
In the independent school district of Alice in Texas, school officials were “received information” that American border patrol agents could ask students of their citizenship status on the checkpoints about 60 miles from Texas Mexico. The information has finished fake.
Angelib Hernandez from Aurore, Colorado, began to maintain their children home from home their schools A few days a week after Trump’s inauguration. Now he doesn’t send them at all.
She is worried by immigration funds will visit their children’s schools, detain them and separate their family.
“I told me,” I hope we never detain us, “she said.” That would scare them. “
Hernandez and her children arrived about a year ago and signed up for asylum. She worked through appropriate legal channels to stay in the US, but changes in immigration policy have made her status.
His fears appeared in the past week. Now, he says, her perception is “all” – from the Spanish language on social media to other students and parents – gives the impression that immigration agents plan to enter schools for Denver. School tells parents that children are safe. “But we don’t trust me.”
Immigration and customs execution agents are not known to have entered schools anywhere. But the possibility is enough to alarm the family that some districts push a change in politics that allows agents to act in schools.
Denver Public Schools sued the Department of Homeland last week, accusing Trump administration by the interference of youth education in her care. Denver took 43,000 migrants from the southern border last year, including children who ended up in city public schools. Attending schools in which migrant children are concentrated in recent weeks, the District said in lawsuit, saying that immigration raid in the local apartment complex was a factor.
Denver support gave students and families to help uncertainty include “tasks that distract and redirect resources from the DPS core and an essential educational mission,” the district lawyers said.
Around the country of conservatives questioned whether immigrants without legal status should even have The right to public education.
Oklahoma is a Republican state surveillance, Ryan Walters, pushed the rule that would be necessary for parents to show proof of citizenship – a birth certificate or passport. The rule would allow parents to register their children even if they cannot provide evidence, but the advocates say that it would be strongly discouraged by it. Even State Republican Governor Kevin Stitta, thought the rule went too far – and Vetoed GA.
In Tennessee, republic legislators have made an account that would enable school districts to decide whether to recognize students without paper. They say they hope to invite legal challenges, which would give them an opportunity Break a four-decade-old precedent Protection of each child’s rights in the country to obtain education
Implications of immigration policies for American schools are huge. Fwd.us, group advocacy for the reform of criminal justice and immigration, is estimated in 2021. years that 600,000 K-12 students in the United States Legal status was missing. Almost 4 million students – many of them born in the United States – have parents living in the country illegally.
It turned out that immigration raids competed to the academic performance for students – even those born born. In North Carolina and California, researchers found lower attendance and decrease in enrollment in Latin American students when local police participate in the program that describes them to implement the Immigration Law. Another study was found Test results of Latin American students fell in schools near the locations of work raids.
In Fresno, attendance fell since Trump took over the function anywhere from 700 to 1,000 students per day. Officials in the Central California district were given numerous panic calls on the forest immigration rations – including for raids in schools, Carlos Castillo, the boss of diversity, capital and inclusion in the united environment. Fears are raid in school fraud.
“It only goes out of the students who … have citizenship status or legal status,” Castillo said. Students are afraid of parents, relatives and friends, and they are terrified that immigration agents could attack their schools or houses, he said.
The Chief Manager of the School recently calls Castillo in tears after the family reached out to say that they were too afraid to buy food. The principal went to the family and delivered $ 100 foods into their home – and then sat with the family and cried, Castillo said.
The District works with families to inform them about their rights and advise them about things like liquidating property or Child care planning If parents leave the US, the District has joined local organizations that can give legal advice to families and maintained almost a dozen meetings, including some on zoom.
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The associated print writer Valerie Gonzalez contributed to this report.
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