Wonder how much longer before K to 12 schools will also have to report the immigration status of a student.
The rules advise colleges with questions about a student’s legal status to get help from the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services. While the agency has historically reviewed immigrant applications, the Trump administration has newly created a branch of special agents who can arrest people for immigration violations. Advocates worried that schools could violate federal privacy laws and expose their students to immigration authorities if they share their information.
“At the end of the day, it’s the student who now has to…worry about getting all of their personal identified information handed over into an armed law enforcement agency — all of their most sensitive information about themselves, about their family — so that they can access a higher education in Texas,” said Kristin Etter, the director of policy and legal services for the Texas Immigration Law Council.