Migrant Kids Face ICE While Florida Lawmakers Skip Town for Recess
As immigrant students brace for raids in their schools, the state’s politicians head out for recess — offering platitudes while real fear grows in the classroom.
WASHINGTON — School can be scary. For many students, focusing in the classroom is a high order. Multiplication tables while your peers giggle, drop pencils, and pass notes — sucks. For most, though, a subpar school day ends with a return to home, safety, and family — things that usually make everything better.
Classrooms are cathartic... until they’re not. Millions of American students are being deprived of that respite. With the fear of mom, dad, grandma, or grandpa being systematically snatched up by ICE, the classroom has become less of a cocoon and more of a holding cell.
Now imagine walking home, your mind racing — not about homework, but whether your parents are gone. That’s a worry most Americans will never know. Since the beginning of Trump’s second term, fears like these have plagued immigrant youth. Children fear for their parents. Parents f…
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