"Between extra car and bus traffic, young students walking or biking, and inexperienced teen drivers, school arrival and departure times are often chaotic. Into this, ICE has introduced deeper anxiety, confusion, and distress. ICE agents have used aggressive tactics including showing up unannounced on school grounds, usually during the busy morning drop-off time, to detain parents. Under law, ICE can now enter US school buildings."
"Their building was next door to an ICE facility, which, according to the school's interim executive director Laura Cartwright, had started to use "chemicals and munitions" against protestors. "Our garden was enveloped in gases one evening," Cartwright told Portland's KGW8. Increased activity at the ICE facility combined with families withdrawing their children from the school due to safety concerns led to the decision to move."
Volunteer monitors in Illinois watch to ensure children can safely enter and exit their parents' cars. Maine established and distributed protocols prioritizing school community safety, and Oregon published a similar toolkit online. In Portland, a K-8 school relocated weeks before classes because its building sat next to an ICE facility that reportedly used "chemicals and munitions" against protesters. A school garden was enveloped in gases during one incident, and families withdrew children over safety concerns. Since the Trump administration took office, immigration enforcement practices have increased anxiety at drop-off and pick-up times, including agents arriving unannounced and detaining parents, sometimes leaving children alone.
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