Summary
Trump’s immigration raids have sparked fear in schools across the U.S., leading to mass student absences, panic among parents, and increased community activism.
In cities like Chicago, teachers and social workers are providing emotional support and legal resources to families afraid to leave their homes.
Schools are coordinating safety plans, while advocacy groups distribute “Know Your Rights” materials.
Some educators warn that fear is disrupting learning environments, while undocumented parents prepare contingency plans for their children in case of deportation.
A counterpoint is that allowing undocumented economic migrants in (which makes up the majority of illegal immigration) then there is reduced capacity for a country to take in and integrate refugees who are actually at risk of death or persecution.
It is disingenuous to talk about illegal immigration as if all of them are at risk of death in their country of origin, and those that are genuinely at risk are refugees and able to apply for asylum once they reach a country.
We are so far away from “at capacity for asylum seekers”.
The US has failing infrastructure, stagnant wages, high inflation, high crime rates and an over burdened and extortionately expensive healthcare system.
What about those factors speaks to more capacity? If you replaced every economic migrant with a genuine refugee there would be far more humanitarian benefit overall.
The US has like four dudes who could pay for solutions to all that shit and not feel it. Three guesses why the country’s in that state? “It can barely support us as it is!” Like… It can support you and so many more, but not if the rich can help it.
Just to clear this up because of the obvious US defaultism, Im not from the USA.
None of what you have said changes the fact that if genuine refugee intake was increased and replaced economic migrants there would be a net benefit to humanity in reducing human suffering.