IMMIGRATION

Chalkbeat -  Educators around the country who work with immigrant students are preparing for the possibility of increased enforcement. In New York City, the International Network for Public Schools supports 17 schools that exclusively serve newly arrived immigrants. Leaders with the nonprofit network are helping families understand their rights but also urging them not to be afraid and keep sending their children to school. In Colorado, school leaders heard from a Nebraska superintendent who saw 500 students disappear from his schools after a raid on a local food processing plant. He said schools should be prepared to help students who have no parents to go home to. 

And college counselors are weighing how to advise students with undocumented family members, or who may be undocumented themselves, about filling out financial aid forms. For the time being, their personal information is protected by law and not filling out the form could mean forgoing a college education.

CNN -  President-elect Donald Trump's "border czar" Tom Homan said Wednesday that plans are underway to deport undocumented immigrants on a large scale and that he'll need funding from Congress to do so. In a CNN interview, Homan said he will need a minimum of 100,000 beds to detain undocumented immigrants — more than doubling the 40,000 detention beds ICE is currently funded for — and needs more ICE agents to carry out Trump's mass deportation promises. Homan also said the incoming administration plans to construct new deportation facilities in large metropolitan areas and bring back mass worksite immigration raids — a potentially significant development for some industries that rely on undocumented immigrants' labor.