Axios looks at the growing number of school leaders working to reassure parents that it will not cooperate with moves by the Trump administration to bring immigration enforcement actions onto school campuses. The Trump administration has announced an end to the existing policy of avoiding such actions in schools, churches, hospitals, funerals and weddings, leading to a number of districts to set out policies limiting cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Denver Public Schools has told principals to deny entry to government officials without prior appointments or legitimate school business, while the Philadelphia School District has said ICE officers should not be provided with information about students, families or staff, or allowed in schools without approval from district lawyers. A spokesperson for Florida’s education department, meanwhile, has said the state’s schools “will cooperate with all law enforcement working to enforce the nation’s laws on illegal immigration”. Oklahoma Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters, meanwhile, has said he will support the Trump administration in “any way they see fit” to carry out immigration enforcement, including ICE raids in public schools.
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