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TX teachers prepare to protect immigrant students

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Thursday, February 6, 2025   

School districts across Texas are grappling with ways to keep migrant children safe and engaged in class now that the Trump administration has made it possible for ICE agents to enter sensitive places in search of undocumented immigrants. According to the Pew Research Center, 1.6 million illegal immigrants live in Texas.

Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, said when ICE agents go into classrooms, all students are traumatized.

"The lawyers will tell you this: All children, regardless of immigration status, have the right to equal access to education and, through the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act, it can't be taken away," she explained.

During President Donald Trump's first term, Dallas school board trustees passed a resolution designating all Dallas ISD schools as "welcoming and protective to the fullest extent of the law."

Many school districts across Texas have released statements saying their commitment is to serve all students and that they don't collect information about immigration status.

Gaby Pacheco, president and CEO with TheDream.US, a national scholarship fund for undocumented students, says lawmakers always use immigrants as bargaining chips.

"I know and see the game they will play: the divide and conquer. They will tell us we can only stand for some children and not all. We're going to take away some of your funding if you protect the other children. They will pin us against one another, hoping we will lose sight of what's right," he said.

Weingarten sent a letter to Trump asking him to rescind the Homeland Security mandate allowing ICE agents in schools, hospitals and places of worship.

Disclosure: American Federation of Teachers contributes to our fund for reporting on Education, Health Issues, Livable Wages/Working Families, Social Justice. If you would like to help support news in the public interest, click here.


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