CHICAGO — As educators around the United States wonder whether a
crackdown on immigrants will reach their schoolhouse doors, principals
in Chicago have been given a simple order: Do not let federal
immigration agents in without a criminal warrant.
The stand taken by Chicago Public Schools, the
country's third-largest school system, is among the boldest of the
districts that have announced measures to protect those who may be
living in the country illegally.
It remains unknown how much interest U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement will show in schools under President
Donald Trump, and there is little schools can do to thwart agents who
show up with warrants, but they are acting at least in part to ease
concerns of skittish immigrant communities. In districts like Chicago,
where nearly half of the 381,000 students are Hispanic, there is concern
that immigration authorities could grab parents outside the schools and
their children inside.
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