Federal immigration enforcement near schools disrupts attendance, traumatizes students and damages their academic performance

While federal immigrant agents need to produce a judicial warrant to enter a classroom, they can freely operate in public spaces at and around schools.

By: Carolyn Sattin-Bajaj, University of California, Santa Barbara, The Conversation

Outlets: The Conversation

Published: January 21, 2026

Words: 1,188

Last Updated: 1 month, 3 weeks ago

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By Carolyn Sattin-Bajaj, University of California, Santa Barbara

The Trump administration’s recent surge of more than 3,000 federal agents to Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, is creating ripple effects for students, teachers and parents that go well beyond ongoing protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection. These protests escalated after an ICE agent shot and killed Renee Nicole Good on Jan. 7, 2026.

Some Twin Cities parents are

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