As Trump-deployed agents pervade the region, students struggle to carry on with lessons while carrying grief and fear that they or their loved ones will be taken
In south Minneapolis, a special education student logged on for their online class from the basement. They were hiding because immigration agents were banging at the door.
A second grader started having a panic attack in the middle of art class because agents had arrested his dad. His teacher had to ask a colleague to watch the other students, bring him outside, and hold him for half an hourto help calm him.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detained preschooler Liam Ramos and his father when they returned home from school and then flew them to a detention center in Texas. Ramos was one of four students in his school district who have been detained in recent weeks. A photo of him, in his blue bobbled winter hat, being detained has become a symbol for the indiscriminate nature of the Trump administration’s deportation operation.
The Trump administration has mobilized 3,000 federal agents who have pervaded the region, arresting people at school bus stops, on morning commutes, at grocery stores and outside churches.
