Nashville elementary school refuses to provide ICE with student records

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Nashville elementary school refuses to provide ICE with student records
Posted: 5:50 AM, Oct 11, 2019
Updated: 9:03 AM, Oct 11, 2019
By: WTVF Staff


NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was rebuffed by a local elementary school when it asked for student records.

According to the school district, ICE officials requested student records from Una Elementary School but school officials did not release them.

Una is a school that is largely made up of immigrant students. Thirty-nine percent of its students are English Language Learners, and 23 different languages are spoken at the school, according to a Nashville Scene report.

"...all MNPS employees, contractors, and volunteers are respectful of the privacy of students and families," school officials said in a statement. "...only an authorized official (the principal) has authority to determine whether the student information can be released."

The circumstances surrounding ICE's request are unclear, but the news of it concerned immigration advocates.

"[ICE has] shown they will stop at nothing to strike fear in our communities and separate families in Nashville," said Conexión Américas Executive Director Juliana Ospina Cano in a statement.

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[rzemanfl]

1. Nashville has plenty of other records

they can have, CDs as well.