A significant number of students from a summer camp in San Francisco's Mission District stayed home following ICE arrests at a local courthouse. Many parents feared that their children would be targeted by ICE, resulting in a notable drop in attendance. Most camp attendees are either undocumented or live with undocumented parents. Camps in other neighborhoods did not report similar trends, but camp administrators and parents expressed severe concerns for their safety, leading to withdrawals based on fears of immigration enforcement.
The day after Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested four people at a San Francisco immigration courthouse last month, one-fourth of the students enrolled at one Mission District summer camp stayed home.
Parents told the camp director they feared ICE would take their kids. They didn't want to bring their children to camp, the director said.
There's a fear that if we draw attention to ourselves, we're going to get swept up and become scapegoated,
In an internal email, the administrator of one summer camp network reported that five families had withdrawn, expressing "fear related to ICE activity" and "concerns about safety."
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