As Los Angeles Unified School District students returned to class on Aug. 14 for the 2025-2026 school year, the first day of school for many was not marked by the usual excitable anticipation. 

Instead, worry and anxiety were palpable as students returned to the classroom after a summer marked by the increased presence of ICE in Los Angeles. Out of LAUSD’s 540,000 students, nearly 30,000 are immigrants, with one in every four being undocumented. Read more…