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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Alexandra Villarreal

‘There are kids not going to school’: fear of ICE is keeping children from classes in Connecticut

people hold a sign that reads 'we stand with Esdras' and 'hands off our immigrant students'
People protest the ICE detention of Esdrás, an 18-year-old student at Wilbur Cross high school, in New Haven, Connecticut, on 30 July 2025. Photograph: Christian Abraham/Connecticut Post via Getty Images

“They took her, they took her, they took her.”

Those were some of the words Cora Muñoz, the Wilbur Cross high school assistant principal, could discern while on the phone with the guardian of one of her students. As the caller sobbed and struggled to speak, Muñoz realized that immigration enforcement agents had detained a kid from Wilbur Cross, the high school she helps lead.

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