Elizabeth Shockman

The complaint was submitted by the Fridley and Duluth school districts, as well as Education Minnesota.

It claims the Trump administration violated the Administrative Procedures Act when it rescinded a DHS policy that designated schools safe zones when it comes to immigration enforcement.

June Hoytel is a partner at Zimmerman Reed, the law firm helping handle the case.

The suit asks the court to declare schools and bus stops as safe zones again.

For NPR News, I'm Elizabeth Schachman in St.

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They did everything right when they came in.

They've shared all of their information with the government, and they were following the process.

They were just trying to secure safety and persecution for their family from their home country.

For those districts that are affected, they are seeing absences anywhere between 20 to 40 percent of their student population who is not coming to school.

In some cases, these are citizens who are afraid to attend school.

So it is having a pretty profound effect on kind of the daily school activities and daily activities of people here.

We've also done reporting on families who are just afraid to leave their homes, afraid to go grocery shopping, afraid to go to work, and in some cases are relying on neighbors to help them with these sorts of things.

Parents setting up patrols for their daycares, for their schools at arrivals and dismissals, people delivering food.

When I walked into this Columbia Heights Elementary School yesterday, the entrance was filled with food and diapers from people who are trying to make sure that their neighbors get fed.

So in addition to a lot of the fear and concern that we're seeing and a lot of the really scary things that we're seeing affect kids, we're also seeing a pretty big response of people wanting to protect each other.