Jasmine Garst

But she clarifies that agents, and this is really important, agents need a warrant to go into a school.

Parents and children cannot be asked about their immigration status by the school.

However, just a few weeks ago in Chicago, a teacher, you might have seen this, Parker, was chased by armed immigration officers into the preschool she works at.

DHS said they weren't targeting the school itself, but you can see how the lines for many parents and students feel blurry.

So back to Em.

Her kids started school in the fall, like kids all over the country.

And then, a few days later, I got this audio message from her.

She had a phone again.

The sheriff's department is there.

She has to pick the kids up, but she's scared.

She grabbed the kids and they ran back home.

It's okay now, she repeats.

It's okay.

Nothing happened.

And then she laughs and says, I got as cold as a cucumber, though.

That first week of school, Emsa, she did what a lot of parents across America did.

She caught up on her sleep.

And then she did something a lot of parents never consider doing.

She reached out to a friend who is an American citizen and started the paperwork to give emergency guardianship in case she or her husband get picked up by ICE.

Yeah, it's a rock and a hard place for many, many families.