Deportation Need: Meeting Parents and Shenandoah Valley

deportation need: What would the school do, she asked, if she became separated from her children I remember walking up to her and putting my arm on her shoulder and saying, Your child is safe at our school,' said Scott Kizner, the city schools chief, according to Toronto Star. But he also advised those at the meeting in the Shenandoah Valley that any parents worried about deportation need to make plans. DAVID MCNEW / AFP/Getty Images By Moriah Balingit Emma Brown The Washington Post Sun., March 19, 2017 The schools superintendent in Harrisonburg, Virginia, was meeting parents this month when a mother broke down in tears, explaining that she was undocumented. Across the country, U.S. President Donald Trump's promise to crack down on illegal immigration is leading schools with large immigrant communities to consider how to care for children whose parents could be detained in federal raids. Officials in Sacramento, Denver, Chicago and Miami have declared their schools havens, out of reach of ICE agents without special permission or a warrant. Parents, teachers and administrators have raised questions about how schools should respond if U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents come to a school to take away students or obtain records even though the agency's policy restricts enforcement actions on school grounds. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.