NASP supports policies that ensure safe and supportive learning environments for all students and families, including students from immigrant and mixed-status families. There are ongoing reports regarding the harms associated with immigration enforcement activities taking place on or near school grounds, including increased absenteeism, students feeling unsafe at school, as well as other harmful academic, social, and emotional impacts. One meaningful way to foster a safe learning environment for all children and families is to codify long-standing, common sense, historically bipartisan, and widely supported federal guidance limiting immigration enforcement near “sensitive locations.”

Join NASP in calling on Congress to enact the Protecting Sensitive Locations Act (S.455/H.R.1061), which would prohibit immigration enforcement actions at or within 1,000 feet of sensitive locations. These would include schools and other education-related locations, such as pre-schools, Head Start programs, early care and education programs, colleges, universities, trade schools, school bus stops, and more.  

You can learn more about this critical legislation by reading this fact sheet from CLASP.