Trump's push for mass deportations leaves child care workers feeling vulnerable

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : Instead, ICE officials are urged to exercise "common sense.
51% : Immigrant staff in preschools say heightened ICE activity is exacerbating anxiety across communities already strained by worker shortages.
50% : But ICE's presence and the fear it generates have changed how the school operates.
50% : She said the teacher, who had a work permit and was later released, was a passenger in a car that was being pursued by ICE officials.
49% : Not long after President Donald Trump took office in January, staff at CentroNia bilingual preschool began rehearsing what to do if Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials came to the door.
48% : As ICE became a regular presence in their historically Latino neighbourhood this summer, teachers stopped taking children to nearby parks, libraries and playgrounds that had once been considered an extension of the classroom.
47% : " Tricia McLaughlin, spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security, defended ICE officials' decision to enter the Chicago preschool.
46% : All of this transpired before ICE officials arrested a teacher inside a Spanish immersion preschool in Chicago in October.
44% : And in October, the school scrapped its beloved Hispanic Heritage Month parade, when immigrant parents typically dressed their children in costumes and football jerseys from their home countries. ICE had begun stopping staff members, all of whom have legal status, and school officials worried about drawing more unwelcome attention.
41% : The child care industry depends on immigrants Schools and child care centres were once off limits to ICE officials, in part to keep children out of harm's way.
40% : Immigrant child care workers and preschool teachers, the majority of whom are working and living in the US legally, say they are wracked by anxiety over possible encounters with ICE officials.

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