Spokane School District Bans Border Agents From Schools

Published on March 8, 2024

The Spokane school district in Washington state voted unanimously on March 7 to ban U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) agents from entering schools after opponents argued that their presence could have traumatic impacts on Latino or immigrant students. According to The Spokesman-Review, the unanimous decision reaffirmed a pre-existing policy preventing border patrol agents from entering school buildings unless the superintendent says otherwise. However, the decision added specific language to the existing policy to clarify this. “It’s to clarify and make it just very clear that Border Patrol should not be in our schools,” the board’s president, Nikki Otero Lockwood, said at an earlier meeting before the vote, according to the publication....

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