Deportation fears reaching schools - Irving parents withdrawing kids, may keep them out - Texas

“Immigrant parents who fear deportation are “on the run” and are withdrawing their children from public schools, Irving ISD Superintendent Jack Singley said Wednesday.

Mr. Singley estimated that 90 children have withdrawn from school in the last week because of the deportation fears in Irving, where a police program has prompted warnings by the Mexican Consulate. The superintendent hopes their parents will re-enroll them somewhere else.

“My concern is that some of them won’t put those children in school anywhere because they’re on the run,” he said. “They get this notion that someone is going to actually come to school and snatch their children.”"

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