How hardline anti-immigrant policies are threatening the right to education [theguardian.com]

^{Erica Watkins of Tulsa, state director of Defense of Democracy, on 28 January 2025 in Oklahoma City. Photograph: Sean Murphy/AP}

By Robin Buller, The Guardian, Image: Sean Murphy/AP, February 10, 2025

As Donald Trump mounts escalating attacks on immigrants in the US in the first weeks of his second term, schools are increasingly in the crosshairs.

He has already revoked protective status for schools and churches, so that immigration authorities can make arrests on school grounds, sending teachers scrambling to figure out ways to protect their students.

Now, hardline anti-immigrant stances are being used to attack public education itself. In January, Oklahoma’s board of education voted to require citizenship information from parents enrolling children in school. The move threatens a longstanding constitutional right to public education for all children, regardless of their immigration status, established in 1982 by the US supreme court.

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