At least 23 US states considered laws this year governing how schools respond when ICE agents show up, according to NPR National. The report says educators currently rely on a patchwork of policies to decide what to do in those situations.
According to NPR National, many state legislatures this year tried to update those policies. The outline for this story does not identify which states were involved, the names of any bills, or whether any of the proposals passed, failed or are still pending.
The report describes the current approach to ICE visits at schools as a patchwork of policies, NPR National said. That description is the central point drawn from the available material on the topic of ICE schools state laws.
This story relies on a single outlet. Only a headline and a short excerpt from NPR National were available for review, so the full article was not checked. No second source has confirmed the 23-state figure or described the proposed laws.
The available material also contains no official response from ICE, state legislators or school districts. It is not yet clear which proposals will advance or how any new laws would take effect. Those details would need to come from the full NPR National report.
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