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Immigration fears

Dreaming big

Chicago
June 11, 2019

For one undocumented student in Chicago, graduation marks both hard work and years of uncertainty

Itzayanna is undocumented, and she is graduating into one of the most supportive, and yet one of the most uncertain, times to be an immigrant student.

No Parking

New York
March 12, 2019

Upper Manhattan school hosts rally after Customs and Border Protection agents put neighborhood on edge

Principal Julie Zuckerman strummed a guitar Tuesday afternoon, leading roughly 50 people to “This Land Is Your Land” outside Castle Bridge School in…

Damage done

Colorado
February 12, 2019

Immigration fears keep some Denver teachers in their classrooms

“We were coerced” to not strike,” one immigrant teacher said. “We don’t trust DPS.”
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