America’s schools should be ICE-free zones

America’s schools should be ICE-free zones

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers are all over America’s public schools. Not physically, of course, but they are ever-present in the minds of millions of students who are either in the country without legal status or have parents who are. It comes out in countless ways — fidgetiness belying anxiety, depression manifesting itself as anger, and sometimes as just the plain old listlessness of a student who is sleepy in class because he or she was awake in the night wondering if parents, uncles or grandparents will be taken away soon. Even teachers aren’t immune to such fears. Though educators ...

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