New Jersey Students Missing School at Alarming Rates Amid ICE Fears

Reporting from Documented (NYC) describes immigrant-family fear of ICE driving alarming rates of student absenteeism across New Jersey schools, with families keeping children home to avoid possible encounters with immigration agents in their communities. The pattern echoes school-avoidance documented earlier this year in Los Angeles, Chicago, and other major immigrant-population cities, and underscores the educational disruption produced by the administration’s expanded interior enforcement.