Fear of ICE raids keeps immigrant kids from focusing in school

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By Cora Cervantes, MindSite News

Navigating 10th grade is hard enough, but Janet Gonzalez,* 16, a San Bernardino resident and U.S. citizen has a lot more to worry about than geometry and biology. She’s afraid that she and her three siblings will be ripped away from their parents. Her father, Marcos, is a 50-year-old construction worker who fled the violence of El Salvador and has lived in the U.S. for 25 years.

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