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Since Donald Trump won the presidential election last November, children all over the country have feared what a large -scale expulsion promise for them and their classmates.
“They come out and say,” What will happen, teachers? “,” Said Elma Alvarez, an educational expert in Tucon, Arizona.
Thanks to the commands issued last week, the fear in the classroom has been ratcheted to a new level, thanks to the arrest of the schools that have been avoided in the past and other “sensitive areas”. Anxiety increased last Friday after the federal agent, which appeared in Chicago Elementary School, was initially mistaken for the U.S. Immigration Customs Execution (ICE).
They were actually secret service agents, but the episodes feel that their parents are afraid. One mother has a legal status, but the children say they don't want their son to return to the Washington Post on the weekend until they settle down.
“It reflects the fear and anxiety that exists in our city,” said CEO Pedro Martinez, a Chicago Public School.
The fear and anxiety resonate throughout the country, fearing that parents and students will leave home, and educators are already involved in school gunfire, COVID-19 pandemic, and mountain fire. I'm worried about how it will affect the children, and other disasters.
“They have already experienced a lot,” Alvares said. “School is a place where everyone who steps on the campus feels safe.”
Fear of ice in the classroom
At least since 2011, including the first Trump administration -in other places that are regarded as “sensitive” in schools, churches, hospitals, and other places to avoid scaring people from basic services. It was to avoid immigration arrests. However, last Tuesday, Trump's Ministry of Land Security has overturned the policy, saying, “This behavior is that this behavior is enacted with the immigration law to CBP and ICE brave men and women. Forced our country to catch the criminals. “
The Trump administration has stated that it will target violent criminals in immigration execution, but is probably not schoolchildren. Furthermore, as AXIOS pointed out, all children in the United States have legal rights for public education regardless of the position of immigrants, and schools generally track whether students are legally in the country. I haven't done it. Some school districts, such as Chicago and New York, have stated that schools will not allow school to allow schools without a warrant signed by a judge. Acquisition of such a warrant is a “process to be involved”, and “I did not see much in the first Trump term”, and the K -12 educational research at the National Integrated Center of the Immigration Policy Institute. Associated director Julie Sugarman said. policy.
Some experts say that even if an ice agent enrolls in school, arresting a child infringes education rights. However, the Trump administration has already taken actions that believe that it is unconstitutional, such as many people trying to end the citizenship of the right to live, and many people feel that the country is in unknown territory. The immigration community is promoting panic.
Abigailless Palace, a co -director of the immigration program at the East Bay Community Low Center in Berkeley, California, states that the new administration's policy is “there is a sense of generalized fear and confusion.” “It's a lot of waiting time, but there is a sense of fear.”
According to the Pew Research Center, fear is the most serious family of one or more members. 6.3 million households. Almost 70 % of these families are “mixed status”. In other words, at least one member is a US citizen or legal resident.
However, the prospect that the federal agent enters the classroom and take students is terrifying for any child, regardless of the position of immigration. A few decades ago, Border Patrol Agent came to Alvarez's sister's classroom and took her two classmates.
“My sister was a freshman. She is almost 50 now and I remember that day very clearly,” said Alvares. “I remember that she still remembered the whole class with tears.”
“That's what our children and our students will happen,” said Alvares if ICE entered the classroom.
Children are afraid to lose their parents
Beyond the fear of ice raids at school, children are facing another concern. When I get home at the end of the day, my parents are no longer there. “The children say to their mother,” I don't want to be deported, I don't want to be separated from you, “said the founder of our voice: We mainly provide a community for high -quality education, Las Angeles Latin and indigenous parents, a non -profit organization that is a non -profit organization.
Areman himself was deported in 1970 with his mother, and his father was delayed in the United States. “55 years later, we are here, but we are still dealing with family separation,” she said. “Trauma is real and never disappears.”
According to a survey, children separated from the family under the Trump administration have experienced deep harm, including PTSD. In 2021, a group of pediatricians wrote that the separation of the family would “make the cruel, inhuman or deteriorated treatment to rise to the level of torture.”
The anxiety that someone in the family may be expelled abroad has already influenced school children. Alvares said mathematics and the themes of mathematics and “What is going to be in moms and dads?” “They are just in survival mode now.”
Other children are afraid to leave the house. Carolina Avila, a social worker in California, is cooperating with students who have come to the United States as a minor without a companion, and many clients say “not only schools, but are going to go anywhere. I said. “
Some of the parents said, “Don't feel that you will gather safely. They feel that it is not safe to leave home,” Aleman said. Some people are afraid to drive their children or take them to school.
The fear occurs when the school district fights chronic absence and is trying to return the child to school after the confusion of pandemic. It is also an era where children nationwide have to endure active shooters drills and hear about children of the age who lost their lives due to gun violence. “Our children are already trauma to think that crazy people will come and shoot,” Alvares said.
For the children of Los Angeles' Aleman's Aleman, the fear of ice arrives shortly after the devastating mountain fire that has destroyed thousands of homes and at least eight schools. The fire is a natural disaster, but the ice raid is “a disaster of human beings.” “It is caused by another person to humans.”
How school supports children
With the next week and a few months, schools and districts will publicly affirm their rights to education and will help their children by setting clear policies on when and how they can enter school. Experts say. Avila, a social worker who works in the overall immigrant representative project of a child, a program that provides services to minors in California, is an alternative care plan in case the family is detained. You may need to support the creation.
Outside the school, ordinary people can now support students and families who are feared. Alvares says:
“These children love children,” she said. “They are smart. They care about their own community. They love their families. They are not here to hurt, they are here to become a child. “
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