Well, I haven't personally talked to the superintendents, but they're very much on alert because schools in Portland and Lewiston in particular have a very fairly high number of children of immigrant families. And so we hear that Some of those children just aren't going to school because they're concerned if they come home and their parent isn't there. or the parent isn't there to take them to school in the first place. And they're concerned about some, at least in theory, an approach to the school that would be very unwelcome. (08:51–08:57)
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Asserts that some children are not attending school due to fear of parental detention.
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