Democratic lawmakers and advocates demanded Thursday that Education Secretary Betsy DeVos disavow her statement from earlier this week that schools can decide whether to turn over undocumented students to immigration officials.

If she does not, they said, she should resign.

“She’s already proven that she wants to dismantle our public schools, but now we are using as cannon fodder the very children that the Constitution and Supreme Court said are protected and have equal access and equal rights,” said Rep. Raul Grijalva, D-Tucson.

Grijalva joined several Congressional Hispanic Caucus members, along with immigration advocates from UnidosUS, the American Civil Liberties Union and the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF), at a Capitol Hill news conference to decry what one called DeVos’ “awful legal policy.”

The event followed DeVos’ appearance Tuesday before a House Education and the Workforce Committee hearing where she was asked if school officials should report students to Immigration and Customs Enforcement if they know that the student is undocumented.

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Source: Cronkite News – May 24, 2018
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