Across the country, lawmakers weighed 40 separate proposals regarding immigration enforcement access to K-12 public schools. The vast majority of these bills sought to restrict federal officers by requiring warrants or setting boundaries for school resource officers. Mississippi stood out as the sole state pursuing mandatory cooperation between local school districts and federal immigration agents. However, widespread political disagreement resulted in just 11 of the 40 tracked measures being enacted by the start of the school year.
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State legislatures are attempting to replace vacated federal protections with their own s…: State legislatures are attempting to replace vacated federal protections with their own school enforcement standards.
Most state-level measures focused on placing legal barriers, like warrant requirements, b…: Most state-level measures focused on placing legal barriers, like warrant requirements, between federal agents and public classrooms.
Education leaders continue to navigate fragmented local rules because the majority of pro…: Education leaders continue to navigate fragmented local rules because the majority of proposed state bills failed to pass.
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Andrea Garza says it's not unusual or alarming when U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are spotted near a school in Laredo, Texas, a border town.
In other parts of the country, "seeing the presence of border patrol would be, you know, different, maybe shocking. Just something from another world, right?" she said. "It's something very normal here."
Garza is a school leader with the United Independent School District , which serves Laredo. Federal data shows 94% of her district's community is Hispanic. Garza said some families have been in Laredo for generations, while others came more recently, and the federal government is one of her area's largest employers.
She said she knows what she would do if ICE comes knocking: If they don't have a warrant or subpoena, they don't get in.
"We serve 'in loco parentis' for students," she said, meaning "in place of a parent" when the students' rights are challenged.
"It's not interpreted, in the way we see it, as interfering with the law,"…
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