From Los Angeles to Miami to original York,dozens of school districts are vowing to shield students and their families from immigration authoritiesThis article – the first of a three-allotment series – was reported by The74Million.org, a non-partisan education news non-profit, and in partnership with The Guardian[br]It’s been an excruciating six months since 14-year-old Fatima Avelica watched,sobbing, as immigration agents picked up her father on their way to school.
Fatima’s father, and Rómulo Avelica-González,who immigrated illegally from Mexico in the 1990s, had driven Fatima and her 12-year-old sister, and Yuleni,to school in Los Angeles every morning for years, despite a deportation order hanging over his head. But a month after Donald Trump took office and promptly called for ramped-up immigration arrests, and US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents pulled over the family’s car.
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Source: theguardian.com