Terrorizing innocent schoolchildren

The Bottom Line from NC Newsline

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The Trump administration’s new and ham-handed anti-immigration policies are terrorizing innocent kids and disrupting our schools.

In numerous places, U.S. citizen children who’ve lived here their entire lives go to school each day fearing their non-citizen parents may not be at home when the school day ends.

As NC Newsline reported this week, teachers and parents in Cabarrus and Durham Counties say worries about the crackdown are causing big problems in their communities.

One Cabarrus County middle schooler even asked his teacher quote “if ICE comes to school, can I jump out of the window and run?”

And needless to say, when children come to school this fearful, it’s disruptive to the entire school. One Durham mom described her children’s school not as the safe place it should be, but as a place of worry and anxiety.

The bottom line: The U.S. needs comprehensive immigration law reform now that provides a pathway out of the shadows for millions of good people. The Trump plan to rely on mass deportation and terror is a cruel and un-American strategy that will ultimately prove futile.

For NC Newsline, I’m Rob Schofield.