It’s time to stop the growing fear of ICE in American schools

While families across the country are sending their children back to school, immigrant families are under particular stress thanks to President Trump, who just pardoned Joe Arpaio, a former Arizona sheriff who openly racially profiled Latinos in “immigration patrols.” [...]

The school environment is for learning, a critical safe place for students to advance their future, and should not be co-opted as a site of fear and hate. As the Supreme Court said in the Plyler decision, the “inestimable toll” of depriving a child of equal access to education is impossible to reconcile with the constitutional principles being taught in our nation’s schools.

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