The School-to-Deportation Pipeline [tolerance.org]

Alicia Doktor 12/2/184:54 PM

On a Saturday afternoon in Houston, Dennis Rivera-Sarmiento crossed a stage donning a green graduation gown. The 19-year-old was proud of this moment—one he wasn’t sure would happen.

Just months before, a scuffle with a classmate near Stephen F. Austin High School threatened his future in the United States. Charged with assault, he was arrested by campus police, sent to county jail, then held in three different Texas immigration detention centers, including one located more than an hour from his home.

He’d been bullied at school because he’s an undocumented immigrant, but he usually kept a cool head about it. On that fateful day in late January, he felt threatened enough to respond to an attack.

[For more on this story by Coshandra Dillard, go to https://www.tolerance.org/maga...-60fd5ebddc-87955891]

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