MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) Two members of the Milwaukee Public Schools Board of Directors want to protect students from being deported. Vice President Larry Miller and Director Tatiana Joseph want all district schools to be “safe havens,” and to protect immigrant and refugee students.
Miller says they want to have “some kind of legal apparatus set up” to protect students if Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents come to the buildings looking for children who may be in the country without proper documentation. His proposal would block schools from sharing the immigration status of students, and would require copies of any warrants and agents’ IDs to be delivered to school buildings and be reviewed by district lawyers before ICE was allowed to enter.
The proposal will be reviewed by a school committee, and then come up for a school board vote in April.
The MetroSource news wire contributed to this report.
