Carlos Mariani Rosa, the executive director of Minnesota Education Equity Partnership (MNEEP), described a “broad fear” from school administrators. Mariani Rosa is also the board chair of Academias la Paz, the recently merged charter school district of Academia Cesar Chavez and El Colegio High School, which have both seen packed meetings of concerned families in recent weeks.

“It’s not just undocumented people that are afraid,” he said. “[People with] lots of different immigrant statuses are expressing fear.”

MNEEP hosted a webinar drawing more than 100 participants in December to help school administrators navigate immigration law during a second Trump administration. The organization also put together a toolkit to clarify what ICE can and can’t do at schools, and how school officials can develop policies to best protect their students from immigration enforcement. Some Minnesota districts and charter schools have created policies to govern any interactions with ICE.