As students return to the classroom and begin a new school year, school leaders throughout the state are battling a new challenge — how to protect students and families from increasing immigration enforcement activity under the Trump administration.

In the first month of his presidency, President Donald Trump made it clear that school campuses — which had previously been considered “sensitive locations” and prohibited immigration agents — would not be exempt from his promise to carry out the largest mass deportation of immigrants in U.S. history.

Many schools across the Bay Area and the state have already designated their campuses as safe havens from immigration activity and reassured families that they would not allow immigration officers on campus or release student data without a warr

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