WMNS 1103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Illegal Immigration, Immigration Enforcement, Moral Agency

• School: Northeastern University
• Department: Women's/Gender/Sexualty Stdies
• Course: WMNS 1103
• Professor: Moya Bailey

Document Summary

The ethic of community and incorporating undocumented immigrant concerns into ethical. One of the few rights undocumented immigrants have is their eligibility to access a free, public k-12 education- granted through plyer v doe. in 1982, not the constitution. In the u. s. public k-12 schools, one million children do not have legal status. 4. 5 million children, or 7% of all school-aged children, have at least one unauthorized parent. Inherent and ominous risk of deportation: if immigration enforcement occurs within a community, it can complicate educators" ability to maintain a school environment conducive to learning. When ice is present, it can affect a child"s receptivity to learning, her short term academic performance, and access to schooling. Educators have to prepare for situations where the parent of a child is detained and/or deported. There have been incidents where schools complicated student"s access to school by instilling fear in families with attempts to collect information about a family"s legal status.