In the schools, legal violence comes in the form of a stigma associated with an undocumented status. We see school-age children not having incentives to do well in school, and even dropping out because there is really no future for them beyond 12th grade. |
While the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Plyler v. Doe granted undocumented and U.S. born immigrant students the right to attend schools with their peers, the push to enforce hard-line immigration laws marginalizes these students into a separate category than their peers. Even with the same school resources available to them, students with undocumented legal statuses are confined to a narrow set of opportunities school. |
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Do not be afraid of setting for yourselves the highest standards you can imagine for a better society. |