A student walking down a busy hallway during the passing period scrolls through social media and sees a video that catches their attention. The video covers something that happened in the news. It states that Donald Trump has recently uplifted a policy that protects immigrants from getting ICE raids at schools and churches. After finding out the news, the student realizes that there are other students who were immigrants who were slightly afraid after hearing something similar.

When Donald Trump campaigned for president, he continuously gave speeches touting his immigration policy plans. Many immigrants and immigrant families were scare hearing this news as well, this made many families afraid of this new policy.

Immidiately after Trump was sworn in as president in January, he has already made a few new changes to the immigration policy, including an executive order called “Protecting The American People Against Invasion.” He also reversed a policy that protected that protected schools and churches from ICE raids.

Ever since that policy has been lifted, there has rumors of ICE showing up to many schools and even a few churches, which has been raising fear for people and also students.

“I think it’s honestly unfair,” Isabella*, a student at MCHS says, “as most of the immigrants here pay their taxes through their IT number. They are here just trying to make a better life for themselvesThey are honestly more of American than being Mexican. They have lived most of their life here, rather than in Mexico, they left their family, their everything, and just for that to be taken away from them in a matter of seconds is just unfair. It is really unfair.”

There are many other students that attend MCHS who have the same feeling. There are some other students who have late relives who don’t have documentation and are concerned about what is going to happen to their family.

“My dad has papers,” Alex, a student at MCHS says, “but my mom does not have papers, so she would be the one leaving, and then we would be the one staying with my sister and her husband. I think it’s a sad thing families have to deal with, being separated and being away from each other. I’m really scared for my mom.”

Because there are many students placed in a position like this, many immigrant families have a plan on what to do if there was an unfortunate situation such as deportation. Many of these kinds of plans either are about staying with a relative who is a citizen or have documentation or moving to Mexico.

“Luckily, I have an older sister who was born here in America,” Oliva, a student at MCHS says. “She is not the oldest, but she was born here, and she is of legal age to take care of me and my siblings. Our plan is to have her become our legal guardian, and from there, we’re just hoping to have enough resources just to continue. And then, obviously we have lawyers.”

If that situation ever occurred to some families they would try to see what they could to stay in America.

“If anything were to happen,” said Oliva, “just make sure that we’re safe and to see what we can do with them, like if they can come back, or how we can handle a situation.”

There are many families at MCHS who are affected by President Trump’s new immigration policy.

The news spread quickly about the new immigration policy in the MCHS. There were many students who were concerned about their late relatives and close family members and what would happen to them if something happened. Some students already have plans to make sure their family can stay together or be in a safe place.

*These names in this story have been changed to protect the students and their families.