Chapter 9: “It’s Because Their Kids Have A Voice”: Teaching About the 2017 Executive Immigration Ban in an Ethnically Diverse Classroom
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Published:2018
Mark Pearcy, Michael Jackson, Regina Santangelo, 2018. "“It’s Because Their Kids Have A Voice”: Teaching About the 2017 Executive Immigration Ban in an Ethnically Diverse Classroom", It’s Being Done in Social Studies: Race, Class, Gender and Sexuality in the Pre/K-12 Curriculum, Lara Willox, Cathy Brant
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On January 26, 2017, President Donald Trump announced a new immigration policy that would effectively close the nation’s borders indefinitely to international refugees, as well as temporarily blocking immigration from seven predominantly Muslim nations (Shear & Cooper, 2017). This announcement caused immediate chaos in U.S. airports and border crossings, as travelers were detained, sent back to their countries of origin, or left in a state of uncertainty (Erdbrink, 2017). Ultimately, the executive order was suspended by a federal judge (Landler, 2017), prompting the Trump administration to hastily release a revised version of the same order, which was subsequently suspended by other federal judges (Jarrett, 2017; Thrush, 2017).
