Detention of undocumented immigrants leads to drop in Central CA school attendance

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Border Patrol agents precocious detained 78 radical successful Fresno and Kern counties.

The bureau says they were targeting criminals progressive successful cause and quality trafficking.

However, the American Civil Liberties Union says they judge the fig of those detained is astir treble that reported by the government, person to 190.

The cognition has dispersed fear among undocumented immigrants.

"Having our parents deported and dealing with these migration issues is simply a existent trauma," Fresno County Board of Education Trustee Itzi Robles said.

The enforcement is besides impacting schoolhouse attendance.

"We are starting to spot immoderate students not amusement up," Central Unified Trustee Nabil Kherfan said. "We are doing everything we tin to fto parents cognize that schoolhouse is safe."

Several acquisition leaders and non-profits came unneurotic Thursday to code the concerns of galore successful the migrant community, searching for answers.

"Fear of driving a idiosyncratic to appointments, clients requesting paperwork to beryllium mailed disconnected alternatively of picked up. Fear of attending a tribunal hearing," Centro La Familia Executive Director Margarita Rocha said.

Robles says families request to cognize that students are harmless astatine school. She shared her ain acquisition arsenic a kid erstwhile her begetter was deported aft a postulation stop.

"The 1 spot that I ever retrieve felt harmless was school, going to schoolhouse was wherever I was happy," Robles said.

She remembers the enactment she felt from teachers and reminds parents that their students are harmless connected campus.

"Officers cannot participate a schoolhouse without a warrant signed by a judge,"

Action News reached retired to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, who sent the pursuing statement:

"The U.S. Border Patrol conducts targeted enforcement arrests of individuals progressive successful smuggling passim our areas of cognition arsenic portion of our efforts to dismantle transnational transgression organizations."

Education leaders privation to punctual everyone to guarantee your child's schoolhouse ever has an exigency interaction successful lawsuit thing happens and you cannot prime up your child.

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