Time , July 7, 2025 “As a former undocumented immigrant, I know this fear. I have felt it. I have lived with the uncertainty of wondering whether a knock at the door meant separation from everything I loved.” Alberto M Carvalho writes these lines in the latest volume of the Time magazine. Carvalho is the superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District, the second largest public school system in the USA. He wrote the Time article after seeing Donald Trump’s atrocious act of perpetrating a military-like operation on the country’s schools in the name of checking on undocumented immigrants. The result of such an operation, writes Carvalho, “is trauma, fear, and distrust – particularly in our schools, where children should feel safest.” “Every child, regardless of citizenship, has a constitutional right to free public education,” Carvalho asserts. The school is the safest place for many children, he says; it is the only place where they feel truly safe, truly seen. Wh...
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