US EditionHow One Minnesota School Is Bouncing Back After the ICE Surge
After a two-month virtual learning period caused by a winter ICE enforcement surge, many Latino students are returning but some families relocated seeking safety.
- On March 18, students returned to a Spanish-immersion elementary school in St. Paul after nearly two months of virtual learning, with photos showing Ms. A teaching a fifth-grade Don Quixote lesson.
- Thousands of federal immigration officers descended on Minnesota this winter during the Trump administration's mass deportation and detention campaign, prompting families to hide and children to stop attending school; the school added a virtual option and some families relocated to El Salvador, Mexico, Nebraska and California.
- Community volunteers in neon vests still guard the yard while one classroom operates as an on-site pantry overflowing with supplies, and signage bars federal immigration agents without a judicial warrant.
- One family is now in El Salvador, others relocated to Mexico, Nebraska, and California, and a family plans to return to Venezuela soon, Amanda, the school principal, says, 'some kids didn't want to come back.'
- Hopewell Hodges, University of Minnesota researcher, says community support efforts like the pantry can shield children, but she stresses that adults must prevent future enforcement surges.
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How one Minnesota school is bouncing back after the ICE surge
On the top floor of a Spanish immersion elementary school in St. Paul, Minn., a classroom of fifth graders is immersed in a world of damsels in distress and knights slaying giants.Their teacher, Ms. A, is walking them through a lesson on Don Quixote. NPR is only using first names or initials for people at this school and are not naming the school because the staff fears the federal government could target them.Ms. A asks her class to discuss wha…
By Sara Sidner, Meridith Edwards and Rachel Clarke, CNN. Marlon Batres is not doing well. The assistant principal says he lives in constant fear for his students, staff, and even himself in his Minnesota community. His sense of security vanished when federal agents flooded the streets around his Minneapolis high school in December. Never mind that White House border czar Tom Homan has since reduced the number of agents; Batres says he still sees…
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