Trump Admin. Lifts Ban on Immigration Arrests at Schools

Immigration agents can now more easily make arrests and carry out raids on school property, after the Trump administration overturned a 13-year-old policy aimed at preventing immigration enforcement from getting in the way of people accessing essential services. Under a directive announced Tuesday night, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Patrol agents no longer have to honor “sensitive locations” when conducting enforcement activities. For more than a decade, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has had an internal policy that has generally prevented agents from making arrests...