The Cost of ICE Raids: Fewer Students, Less Money, Missing Parents
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Two recent stories by reporters here at 蜜桃影视 demonstrate the ongoing ripple effects of the Trump administration鈥檚 massive deportation campaign. One deals with money, the other with home.
My colleague Linda Jacobson detailed how empty desks are adding up, whether it鈥檚 students who are absent from school, families who have been detained or others who鈥檝e left their districts 鈥� or fled the country 鈥� on their own.
States fund districts based on per-pupil enrollment, and in California, that dollar figure comes from daily average attendance. In Minnesota, where immigration enforcement actions听, the state requires districts to drop students from the rolls if they鈥檝e been absent for 15 straight days. Unless an emergency exemption to the rule is granted, one district outside Minneapolis is facing a $1 million hit to its $51 million budget.
鈥淚 remember walking in the hallways going, 鈥楬oly God, where are all the kids?鈥� 鈥� an employee in another Minnesota district told Linda. 鈥淚t was eerie.鈥�
Meanwhile, Jo Napolitano looked at what happens when the parents go missing, specifically after being detained or deported by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Jo reports that for their children, thousands of whom are U.S. citizens, this abrupt upheaval often means removal from home and听school.
Some can find themselves, brand-new passports in hand, being sent to their parents鈥� birth country, which may be totally unfamiliar, or to live with family or friends 鈥斕齯nless those adults鈥� citizenship status is also precarious and they may be too afraid to take them in. An unlucky number are placed in foster care and some are just left alone.
鈥淲e鈥檝e heard about 15- and 16-year-olds living by themselves for several weeks because their parents were detained and they had no idea where they were,鈥� one advocate said. 鈥淚CE was not checking to make sure they were OK. These are U.S. citizen kids.鈥�
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