A child visiting the school nurse over a stomachache isn’t out of the ordinary. But for one young student in Oregon’s Umatilla School District recently, the cause of her pain didn’t appear to be physical.
Rather, she expressed concern about her parents.
The student’s anxiety arose from the Trump administration’s January announcement that it would enforce stricter immigration policies — even allowing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to enter schools and other sites like colleges, houses of worship and hospitals previously considered “protected areas.”
