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Schools, families fretting over Trump administration's deportations

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President Trump 's immigration policies are already affecting schools across the country, as officials find themselves responding to rising anxiety among parents and their children.

Some districts are pushing for a change in the policy allowing agents to operate in schools.

Republicans in Oklahoma and Tennessee have put forward proposals that would make it difficult for children in the country illegally and U.S.-born children of parents without documentation to attend school at all.

The feared school raids have all been hoaxes, a district official says.

Students are afraid for their parents, relatives and friends.

They're terrified that immigration agents might raid their schools or homes.

The district has been working with families to inform them of their rights and advise them on things like liquidating assets.

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