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Jasmine Garst

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Up First from NPR
The Families Hiding from ICE

Nothing at all.

Up First from NPR
The Families Hiding from ICE

Boring, because we didn't go anywhere.

Up First from NPR
The Families Hiding from ICE

Kay is 12, and you can really, like, hear her adolescence simmering.

Up First from NPR
The Families Hiding from ICE

This summer, she was selected to go to a STEM summer camp for kids who are interested in science.

Up First from NPR
The Families Hiding from ICE

Her parents pulled her out.

Up First from NPR
The Families Hiding from ICE

They told her the family had to hunker down.

Up First from NPR
The Families Hiding from ICE

All summer activities were canceled.

Up First from NPR
The Families Hiding from ICE

citizens, but we are not.

Up First from NPR
The Families Hiding from ICE

If we take you to the aquarium, to the pool, we could get detained.

Up First from NPR
The Families Hiding from ICE

We could get deported.

Up First from NPR
The Families Hiding from ICE

Without looking at her mom, Kay says she's excited about school starting again.

Up First from NPR
The Families Hiding from ICE

But I was filled with questions like, what if immigration agents come for me while my kids are in school or as I'm picking them up?

Up First from NPR
The Families Hiding from ICE

And can immigration agents go into the school?

Up First from NPR
The Families Hiding from ICE

Can they ask my kids about our legal status?

Up First from NPR
The Families Hiding from ICE

I heard concerns like this from a lot of parents.

Up First from NPR
The Families Hiding from ICE

Oh, can they?

Up First from NPR
The Families Hiding from ICE

I actually reached out to Elora McCurdy to ask about this.

Up First from NPR
The Families Hiding from ICE

She's a professor of law at Columbia Law School and also the director of the Immigration Rights Clinic at the school.

Up First from NPR
The Families Hiding from ICE

And what did McCurdy say?

Up First from NPR
The Families Hiding from ICE

McCurdy says she understands the fear, though, because almost as soon as President Trump took office in January, these previously designated locations like schools and churches and hospitals were deemed no longer off limits for immigration enforcement.