5th Floor, Woodrow Wilson Center
11:30 A.M. (light lunch)
12:00 to 1:30 P.M. ET (program)
5th Floor, Woodrow Wilson Center
Ronald Reagan Bldg. & International Trade Center
One Woodrow Wilson Plaza
1300 Pennsylvania Ave. NW
Washington DC 20004-3027
Patricia Gándara, Co-Director, Civil Rights Project, University of California-Los Angeles
Bryant Jensen, Assistant Professor, Brigham Young University
Shena Sanchez, Research Associate, University of California-Los Angeles
Julie Sugarman, Senior Policy Analyst, Migration Policy Institute
Claudio Sanchez, Education Correspondent, National Public Radio
Introduction:
Christopher Wilson, Deputy Director, Mexico Institute, Wilson Center
There has been considerable discussion in news outlets about the impact of immigration enforcement policies on children and families. Recent incidents across the country and reported in the press have raised alarm throughout immigrant communities. Clearly there is great fear in this hypersensitized environment. To what extent is this ramped-up immigration enforcement impacting our nation’s public schools? How does it vary by region and what is the “collateral” fallout for nonimmigrant students? How are educators reacting, and to what extent is this affecting them? What rights do students have and what happens to U.S.-citizen children when they are sent to a country and school system they do not know? To address these questions, four research papers were presented with brief highlights. The studies include:
The event recording is available here.
Lily Eskelsen Garcia, President, National Education Association