Immigration
Following high-profile immigration raids, Los Angeles Unified added 100 summer school sites, extra transportation, and virtual learning options to address fears from families about the possibility of being detained during school dropoff or pickup.
Maykol Bogoya-Duarte’s request to remain in the U.S. to finish school was denied Wednesday, his attorney said.
The board listened to two and a half hours of public comment before it released a statement urging for the student’s release.
Although DPS did not win the lawsuit, the district declared “a victory” in the case and said it wouldn’t hesitate to sue again “should circumstances change.”
Immigration raids, protests, and the deployment of National Guard troops ‘could not have come at a worse time’ for graduating seniors and their families.
The Western International High School student is 3.5 credits away from graduation, his attorney says. He is now fighting for his release.
The student’s name and school have not been released. Chancellor Melissa Aviles-Ramos said she was ‘deeply saddened’ by the arrest.
The detention highlights the limits of districts in protecting students from immigration enforcement off campus.
California offers more resources and support to undocumented students than many states. But even there, immigrant students are weighing safety and politics in their college plans.
El arresto —el primer caso conocido de detención por parte de ICE de un estudiante en curso de una escuela pública de Nueva York durante el segundo mandato de Trump— sacudió a la comunidad estrechamente unida de su high school en el Bronx.
As several politicians called for the release of the Bronx student arrested by ICE, one voice was notably more muted: Mayor Eric Adams’.
A state education official revealed that some districts are tapping virtual learning to support immigrant students frightened to attend school.
El presidente Donald Trump firmó una orden ejecutiva que incluía la orden de que las agencias federales sancionaran a los estados que aplican la matrícula estatal a estudiantes indocumentados. Veinticuatro estados cuentan con leyes similares.
Las clínicas de derecho ofrecen a los estudiantes una manera de adquirir experiencia con casos y clientes antes de graduarse. Y la administración Trump ha hecho que las clínicas de derecho para inmigrantes de las facultades sean más cruciales que nunca.
For children of immigrants, including those with undocumented parents, the college financial aid process comes with great hurdles and anxieties.
Legisladores en Colorado dijeron que la propuesta de ley 276 del Senado asegurará que representantes locales no cooperen con agentes de inmigración federales a menos que tengan una razón válida.
The end of the grant likely makes it harder for Aurora-area residents who hold a green card to find services that help them become a U.S. citizen.
Revised legislation would allow districts to charge families tuition for students who aren’t in the country legally, in a challenge to federal law.
The proposals are unconstitutional, the sponsors acknowledge. Enactment could set up a challenge to federal protections in place since 1982.
Local school boards have passed resolutions in support of immigrant students. The State Board has not traditionally used resolutions to make statements, but did on Wednesday.