INDIANAPOLIS — Faith leaders from across Indianapolis are calling on Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita to drop a lawsuit he filed against Indianapolis Public Schools.

Rokita sued IPS on Nov. 6 for "for its policies and practices that frustrate federal immigration authorities ' ability to enforce federal law and violate Indiana law." He alleges IPS thwarted ICE efforts to "deport an illegal alien who had voluntarily agreed to leave the country" in January.

The complaint says that a Honduran national was scheduled to be deported on Jan. 8. The immigrant's child went to an IPS school "in apparent disregard of his father's wish that they depart the country together that afternoon." It is unclear if the child was a Honduran national or a United States citizen.

When ICE officers went to IP

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