From students crying in a counselor’s office to those who skip school altogether amid rumors of Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids, the fear of deportation is terrifyingly real for immigrant children and their families.
There’s the uncertainty hanging over the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program and the decision by the Trump administration to end temporary legal status for hundreds of thousands of Haitian and Salvadoran immigrants displaced by catastrophic earthquakes in their home countries.
For a story in Education Week’s special report on Teaching Vulnerable Students, we talked to educators in Boston, Los Angeles, and Oakland, Calif., about what they’re doing to support students and help them feel safe. More than 80 percent of educators said they have students who are concerned about immigration enforcement, according to a new national survey from the Civil Rights Project at the University of California, Los Angeles.