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How the Immigration Crackdown is Impacting Children

  • Within the first three months of his presidency in 2017, Donald Trump's administration implemented more than 175 measures targeting immigration, resulting in arrests, raids, and deportations that included children.
  • This crackdown followed Trump's campaign promise to tighten immigration enforcement amid roughly 13 million undocumented people and about 9 million children living with non-citizen adults in the U.S.
  • Two landmark court cases, Plyler versus Doe and Lau versus Nichols , require that all children, regardless of immigration status, have access to education and necessary support to access the curriculum.
  • The Migration Policy Institute's associate director Julie Sugarman noted anecdotal evidence of decreased attendance and increased worry among Hispanic and immigrant children after ICE enforcement actions in their communities.
  • These enforcement efforts have caused stress among teachers and impacted children's school participation and concentration, suggesting harmful effects on immigrant families and education access.
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How the Immigration Crackdown is Impacting Children

During his campaign, President Donald Trump promised a crackdown on immigration. In his first three months back in office, his administration announced over 175 immigration-specific executive actions, according to analysis from the Migration Policy Institute. Julie Sugarman is the institute’s associate director for K-12 education research. She joins Soledad O’Brien to explain how these actions are impacting schools and children from immigrant fa…

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KCRA 3 broke the news in Sacramento, United States on Sunday, May 4, 2025.
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