NEW ORLEANS — With the upcoming arrival of attendance, enrollment, and school performance could decline. They say the problem has already been worsening since immigration enforcement ramped up earlier this year.

“The words literally are, ‘I am scared of leaving my house,’” said Eduardo Gonzalez, Program Director of that works with Latino youth.

“My students directly come up to me and told me, ‘Mr. Eduardo… my parents are very nervous for me to come to school, I'm not sure if I want to continue my education,” he said in an interview Tuesday.

Legally, it is now easier for ICE and CBP agents to enter school campuses. Under old guidelines, they could only do it with approval from their agency’s headquarters or under specific circumstances, such an immediate threat to public safety.

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