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The scare of President Trump's immigration law had reached the students from all over the country. Students with immigrant parents are threatened to be separated from their parents.

Some districts in the US are already becoming sanctuary districts. These US sanctuary districts for immigrants means that any person from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other agencies will not be permitted to enter the school premises without any search warrants.

The schools will not also collect immigration information from their students.

The Detroit Public Schools Community District had also supported and implemented this policy. This will lessen the scare of parents sending their children to school.

The implementation of this policy on the US sanctuary district for immigrants in schools is a response to the scared immigrants who had found and made shelter and built a family in the US for many years. Being deported back to their originating country would only cause them discomfort and intense sadness from being separated from their children in the US.

This policy is implemented in these schools will help encourage parents to not be scared to send their children to school. This also assures to eliminate most of the fears of uncertainty felt by parents and children. It also lessens the chance of children going home without any parents because of the immigration law's implementation.

According to the executive director of the Congress of Communities in South-West Detroit, Maria Salinas, the policy admits the fact that there is a big population of immigrants in schools. Compared to the immigrant population in Michigan, Detroit's immigrant population is bigger.

The intensely publicized immigration raids in various poultry processing factories in Mississippi during summer where 700 immigrant workers were made to surrender to the law was dubbed as the biggest immigrant-operation in a state in the United States of America.

That event in Mississippi had intensified the fear among the immigrant community in all the states of the United States of America. This adds up to the already existing scare to the immigrant community since the election of President Trump.

After the Mississippi immigrant raid, hundreds of immigrant children discontinued going to school. Through community meetings, the implementation of the policy for the US sanctuary district for immigrants had been expressed clearly to the parents and children to encourage them to go to school. The community meetings in different states in the US had reassured the parents and children that the immigrant status of their children will be kept confidential.

Regardless of the strong immigration-law-related enforcements at different schools, the executive director of the Detroit Hispanic Development Corporation, Angela Reyes had stated that Detroit Public School districts are adhering to the law for all its 106 schools. The sanctuary policy's implementation will be dependent on each school's interpretation and decision on its level of enforcement.

There are currently twenty school districts from all over the U.S. that have adopted the policy for the US sanctuary district for immigrants including schools from Chicago, Houston, and Oregon.