US Edition‘I Was the Last Person in the US that He Knew’: Teachers Face the Deportation Crackdown Taking Students Away
Teachers advocate for immigrant students detained 1,500 miles away in Texas amid a crackdown that caused 20% absenteeism, offering legal and emotional support.
- Over the last year, four students were detained and taken roughly 1,500 miles to Dilley, Texas, and this month the last 17-year-old asylum-seeker from Venezuela was released, Schoettle said.
- Western International High School serves about 1,900 students, about one-fifth are immigrants and 70% are children of immigrants, amid increased vulnerability from the national immigration crackdown, Schoettle said.
- Schoettle spoke to detained students daily as their de facto therapist and legal adviser, bought phone credits with her own money, and received calls and Microsoft Teams messages revealing reported detention conditions.
- Last week, teachers and community members set up safer transportation and 'Know Your Rights' trainings as about 20% of students missed school due to fear of detention, Schoettle said.
- Teachers have contacted lawyers, members of Congress and immigration advocates and offered to serve as sponsors, but they say ongoing local fear and no near-term change persist.
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During the past year, four of Kristen Schoettle's students were detained by ICE and taken approximately 2,400 km from Detroit to the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas.
By Sunlen Serfaty, CNN. Over the past year, four of Kristen Schoettle's students were detained by ICE and taken approximately 1,500 miles from Detroit to the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas. "The most emotional moment for me personally was the first time it happened," she said, recalling how she watched immigration agents lead a student away in handcuffs while her class was on a field trip last May. On subsequent occasions…
“I was the last person in the US that he knew”: Teachers face the deportation crackdown taking students away
Many teachers across the country are finding themselves taking on roles far beyond the bounds of school to support students, undocumented or otherwise, facing immigration challenges.
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