The school district in Spokane, Washington voted unanimously to ban U.S. Border Patrol agents from entering schools, saying that it could be traumatizing for immigrant students.
The movement to bar U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) personnel from the classrooms came after members of Latinos En Spokane, an advocacy group that supports the Latino community, said that immigrants seeing Border Patrol agents in their school could be traumatizing.
"They could be targeted as immigrants, because they have an accent, or if they’re asked something about their parents, you know, that could be a stressful situation," Jennyfer Mesa, executive director of Latinos In Spokane, told the Spokane Review.
