The Brief
- Members of the Gwinnett County Association of Educators met with Sheriff Keybo Taylor regarding his department’s work with ICE.
- The teachers’ union says enrollment has plummeted and students are scared because of a nationwide immigration crackdown.
- The association is publicly urging the sheriff to halt all cooperation with ICE to help restore confidence in students.
GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. – Gwinnett County teachers met with Sheriff Keybo Taylor Tuesday evening to discuss their concerns that the federal immigration crackdown is leaving classroom seats empty.
“We’re seeing a lot of students just cutting class, at a level we just haven’t seen before,” Alison Cundiff, Gwinnett County Association of Educators president, told FOX 5 ahead of the meeting. “Kids are not feeling the trust in authority figures.”
The teachers’ union has suggested that thousands of students are no longer enrolled in school because of immigration concerns. It wrote an open letter to Sheriff Taylor last month demanding he issue a moratorium on any cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, beyond what is required by the law. …