DENVER ‒ School districts representing hundreds of thousands of students nationally have reported attendance drops in the wake of highly publicized ICE raids, with some classrooms seeing as many as two-thirds of students temporarily absent.

Members of the Community Self-Defense Coalition patrol neighborhood streets in an effort to alert people about ICE operations and inform them of their rights.

In January, the Trump administration rolled back a decades-old Department of Homeland Security memo that protected sensitive locations such as schools, hospitals, courthouses, and places of worship from immigration enforcement.