As U.S. Border Patrol agents reportedly get ready to deploy to the New Orleans area , schools are seeking to prevent families from panicking while also preparing to respond if agents show up to campus.

In New Orleans and neighboring Jefferson Parish, both home to sizable immigrant communities, schools have sent messages assuring families that students are safe on campus — an effort to dissuade nervous parents from keeping their children home. At the same time, schools have developed protocols and district officials have provided legal guidance for interacting with federal agents.

Schools have not been targeted in other cities where President Donald Trump has dispatched federal agents in his nationwide campaign to ramp up deportations of undocumented immigrants. A Department of Homeland

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