The UNESCO study urges schools to create safe spaces for all students.
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1 min readNov 27, 2018
By Shani Saxon
November 21, 2018
Seven percent of children in the United States are born to parents who don’t have legal immigration status, according to NBC News. And a new report from UNESCO, “Building Bridges, Not Walls,” finds that many students are missing school due to fear of deportation, whether it’s their own or a loved one’s.
That fear is heightened when schools allow Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to search the grounds or collect personal student information. American immigration policies “are detrimental to the education of those with undocumented status,” the report states.
Read more on the new UNESCO study: http://bit.ly/2DC0WGf.
