Our students are incredibly afraid that they or their parents are going to be swept up in immigration raids. There is a pervasive sense of uncertainty, and this kind of looming threat that 'at any moment I may be sent home' to, in many cases, a place of danger.
Because most of the schools where immigrant students are found are poor schools, they had a hard time meeting the very deep needs of the students. Even the students who were not from immigrant families were being affected by this because of the climate in the school.
One of the really sad things that we heard from teachers was that oftentimes, their best students were giving up. Because the kids would say, 'I don't see that I have a future in this country. Why am I knocking myself out to try and go to college if I have no future?'
Researchers at the Civil Rights Project at UCLA found that Trump's immigration policies contributed to increased absenteeism, decreased student achievement and parent disengagement.
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