Essential Strategies for Schools and Communities to Ensure Success for New Arrival Students
By Giselle Castaneda and Dr. Benjamin M. Drury
New arrivals are coming into the country every day, and Governor Greg Abbott of Texas is not the most welcoming of hosts. Stories of transporting new arrivals directly from the Mexico-America border to cities like Los Angeles and Chicago are now the norm on the nightly news.
Families are being forcibly relocated — sometimes against their will — to these cities where they may or may not know anyone… and that is if they make it across the border.
A recent report outlining inhumane treatment of migrants by Texas Troopers acting as part of a new initiative put forward by Governor Abbott talks about razor wire-covered barrels in the Rio Grande, pushing mothers with infants back into the waters to return to Mexico, and creating barriers in the river to prevent people from crossing in the shallower areas.
In reality, if the families attempting this potentially fatal quest were inspired to come to…
