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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Fresno acquisition leaders met Thursday to code the caller migration expanse successful Kern County.
This comes arsenic students instrumentality to schoolhouse this week aft Winter Break, with schools noticing a diminution successful attendance owed to fearfulness of deportation.
Central Unified, Fresno Unified, and the Fresno County Board of Education were among the agencies speaking out, assuring parents that their students are harmless astatine school.
"The instrumentality has been settled agelong ago, since Plyler v. Doe of children is entitled to a nationalist education, careless of migration status, and we'll bash each we tin to advocator and support each of our students," said Nabil Kherfan, Central Unified Board of Trustee, Area 4.
Kherfan reassures parents that schoolhouse districts bash not enactment successful migration argumentation enforcement.
"We haven't had this benignant of level of fearfulness successful the past 4 years, and it's going to increase, and there's a batch of questions," helium said.
Questions pursuing the California Border Patrol detaining adjacent to 80 radical successful the Bakersfield area, leaving migrant families successful fearfulness that they could beryllium next.
"There person been some, you know, reports from individuals wrong the migration section saying that they're planning to person raids successful Sacramento and Fresno," said Itzi Robles, Fresno County Board Trustee, Area 3.
This hits adjacent to location for Robles, who attended Fresno schools from K to 12, arsenic an undocumented student.
In archetypal grade, her begetter was deported aft a postulation stop.
Despite specified a traumatic lawsuit and the fearfulness it induced for her and her family, she continued her education.
"School conscionable ever felt similar a harmless place," she said.
And that's precisely what Fresno County schoolhouse districts privation for each pupil successful the valley.
Moving forward, the districts are moving unneurotic to collaborate connected grooming and workshops connected these issues, ensuring a unified approach.
"We privation everyone successful our districts to cognize what they should beryllium doing," said Kherfan.
