Trump's expanded ICE raids scare kids and raise absenteeism, schools warn
Source: USA Today
Published 7:05 p.m. ET Feb. 24, 2025 | Updated 7:08 p.m. ET Feb. 24, 2025
DENVER ‒ School districts representing hundreds of thousands of students nationally have reported attendance drops in the wake of highly publicized ICE raids, with some classrooms seeing as many as two-thirds of students temporarily absent.
From New York to Los Angeles, Chicago and Denver, school districts have reported students staying home in fear that they or their parents could be deported.
The U.S. Constitution guarantees a free public education to every child, regardless of immigration status, but a new Trump administration policy gives ICE agents more leeway to target schools, bus stops and other educational facilities.
"Permitting law enforcement to conduct raids on school grounds or in hospitals and clinics, potentially forcibly removing people in front of children, will break trust between families, law enforcement and your administration, as children will be traumatized by the spectacle," Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers warned President Donald Trump. "This will indelibly scar native-born American families as well as immigrant families; the impact and harms will be absorbed by entire communities."
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