Advocates have called upon school leaders to take action to protect immigrants in the wake of an extensive operation by the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol in Kern County last week. Immigrant families ...

Las Cruces Public Schools told KOAT in a statement that a bus filled with students was stopped at a border patrol checkpoint on Friday, Feb. 24, while they were traveling to a state swim competition.

Immigrant families have been afraid to send their students to school in the wake of the extensive operation, some opting to keep them home. “Students are scared,” said Belen Carrasco, a middle ...