School Enrollment Down Following Swift Raids

Carolyn Hileman* | February 13, 2007

(AP) Grand Island, Neb. Sandra Sanchez is waiting for her husband’s appearance before an immigration judge in April before she decides on whether she will move to Mexico with her daughter and son. She’s hoping her husband can somehow emerge from a federal detention center in Atlanta and reunite with the children in Grand Island, Neb. so the kids can remain in the city’s public schools. The couple’s son and daughter are two of 61 students in Grand Island Public Schools who had at least one parent arrested in the Dec. 12 immigration raid of the local Swift & Co. meatpacking plant, according to district officials. The 261 arrests in Grand Island were part of a wide-ranging raid of Swift plants in six states by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials.

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