If we act now, Michigan can enact immigration laws to protect our children and families from dangerous immigration enforcement excesses.

The current federal administration has rescinded the “sensitive areas” policy and this puts all Michigan kids at risk. Few parents, no matter their political views, want masked, armed men in schools or child care centers - it’s traumatizing for any child, whatever their citizenship status. But, if Michigan doesn’t enact laws that protect safe spaces for children, these things will happen in Michigan like they are happening in other states.  

Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) has been more active in Michigan since last spring; the agency reported detaining more than 2,300 people in Michigan in the last year. The vast majority of those detained are not wanted for crimes and do not have felony criminal records. We’ve seen a father with cancer detained for months, a parent detained after dropping a child off at school, and, recently in Ypsilanti four parents detained at a school drop-off/bus stop. At least five Detroit high school students have been detained and, in one case, a student deported before he could graduate.