Schools racing to protect immigrants and undocumented students from deportation under Trump

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy School officials across the country are taking steps to prepare for an onslaught of new deportations under Donald Trump, including the potential that the new administration breaks with longstanding policy and conducts raids at schools themselves. “I think families are extremely worried.” There are an estimated 400,000 undocumented students in higher education across the U.S., and roughly 733,000 school-aged children in the U.S. overall. Trump officials have also suggested several specific, dramatic policy changes that will hit young people particularly hard, including ending birthright citizenship, resuming family separation, and encouraging families with mixed immigration status to self-deport. Schools across the country are training staff and formulating policies to prepare for a wave of Trump deportations The fate of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which temporarily shields people brought to the U.S. as children illegally, is also unclear under the new administration.