MIAMI—As "back-to-school" ads start to populate media, and teachers prepare to have their classrooms filled across the country starting August 10, Latino children, now roughly one in four American students, get ready to return under the weight of deportation raids, empty desks, and rising anxiety.
Hispanic children make up the largest and fastest-growing share of the nation's classrooms, and this school year they are returning to campuses marked by a new tension: the pull of the classroom against the fear of immigration enforcement waiting outside the school gates.
