ICE

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials have been given permission to enter schools in an attempt to deport children.

If you discover that some students have left the country without telling you, please don’t take it personally.

For information:

Detroit Immigration Attorneys—open 24 hours a day

Michigan Immigrant Rights Center—services are free.

National Immigrant Justice Center

Many students who are studying diligently have to upend their entire lives—and many of your students have lived in the United States since they were born. This is actually a constitutional guarantee—if you’re born here you’re a citizen—but an executive order has been issued and until the constitutionality of that order is successfully challenged, understand that there will be some disruption.

Directly from the U.S. Constitution, which has been taken down from the White House website, we note section 1 of the 14th amendment:

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

The reason why this is taken seriously, the idea that this can be rewritten, is because on January 6, 2021, there was an insurrection. The person who incited the insurrection and should’ve fallen from grace in part because of section 3 is also the same person who is challenging section 1:

No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

And yet, here we are.

In The Faculty Handbook, I write about how important it is to understand culture and socioeconomic influences. It is critical that regardless of your own political leanings you understand how people outside of your studio can affect the goings on inside your studio. This is why.

We teach this.

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