Jasmine Garst
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Podcast Appearances
Boring, because we didn't go anywhere.
Kay is 12, and you can really, like, hear her adolescence simmering.
This summer, she was selected to go to a STEM summer camp for kids who are interested in science.
Her parents pulled her out.
They told her the family had to hunker down.
All summer activities were canceled.
citizens, but we are not.
If we take you to the aquarium, to the pool, we could get detained.
Without looking at her mom, Kay says she's excited about school starting again.
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?
And can immigration agents go into the school?
Can they ask my kids about our legal status?
I heard concerns like this from a lot of parents.
I actually reached out to Elora McCurdy to ask about this.
She's a professor of law at Columbia Law School and also the director of the Immigration Rights Clinic at the school.
And what did McCurdy say?
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.