Research demonstrates that there is already a growing Latinx teacher-student gap in states with large numbers of Latinx students, which has been made worse by rescinding DACA. Immigration policies also disrupt the recruitment and retention of teachers. Many educators report that younger students do not understand the processes underlying immigration policy and enforcement, so even students with legal residency or citizenship may mistakenly worry about deportation. When a classmate misses school or behaves unusually due to fears about immigration enforcement, it can destabilize a classroom and interrupt learning for all students. These disruptions have impacts beyond those felt by the students who are directly affected. These issues contribute to a school climate of stress and anxiety. In the UCLA survey, 84 percent of educators reported that students expressed worries about the effects of immigration enforcement, and more than 60 percent of educators observed a downturn in academic performance for students affected by immigration enforcement. A 2013 Human Impact Partners study found that 33 percent of unauthorized parents reported that their child was withdrawn, compared with 24 percent of parents with legal status.
In addition, fear of deportation often causes performance issues in school. Schools often provide these students with necessary meals, stability, and supports when they stay home from school due to deportation-related concerns, these students are deprived of key resources. A UCLA Civil Rights Project study found that 57.4 percent of teachers and school administrators surveyed reported increased absenteeism when students had concerns about immigration enforcement affecting them and their families. Unauthorized students and those from mixed-status families may stay home from school, fearing that they or their family members will be deported. The Trump administration’s immigration policies have created widespread fear and stress that interfere with students’ learning. Fear of immigration enforcement disrupts learning By protecting schools from immigration enforcement supplying resources and stability for immigrant students and their peers and providing qualified young people with a pathway to legal residence, these policies benefit all stakeholders in the school community. Policymakers at the district, state, and federal levels should do more to help restore stability to schools affected by enforcement overdrive. Yet ramped-up immigration enforcement disrupts the integral stability and resources that schools provide. Doe, the Supreme Court ruled that students’ access to a public education cannot be denied based on their immigration status. Schools serve as community centers, provide stability to families, and employ millions of teachers. citizen children living in mixed-status families and the 9,000 educators who are DACA recipients working in schools around the country, the Trump administration’s immigration policies have been especially devastating. The Trump administration’s approach to immigration enforcement-including prioritizing all unauthorized immigrants for detention and deportation and rescinding the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program-has wreaked havoc on schools, teachers, and students across the country.įor the roughly 600,000 undocumented youth under 18 the nearly 6 million U.S. This incident exemplifies how the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement policy has spread fear in immigrant communities and disrupted learning environments for students across the United States. The Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition, a Tennessee immigration advocacy group coordinating assistance for those affected, reported that 120 teachers volunteered immediately after receiving a request for help. Teachers and administrators from the affected schools have come together to support students torn from their parents and family members.
Immigrant parents reported that they were afraid to go to work or let their children go to school for fear that they and their children would be arrested as well. The following day, 550 children were absent from school in nearby Hamblen County-including 20 percent of the county’s Hispanic students-and 177 were still absent the following Monday. One hundred and sixty children had a parent arrested in the raid. When Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers raided a meatpacking plant in rural Tennessee on April 5, they arrested 97 workers in the largest workplace raid in a decade.
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