{"id":13190,"date":"2026-06-08T16:32:01","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T16:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=13190"},"modified":"2026-06-08T16:32:01","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T16:32:01","slug":"amid-trump-immigration-crackdown-nyc-schools-use-comic-books-to-teach-kids-their-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=13190","title":{"rendered":"Amid Trump immigration crackdown, NYC schools use comic books to teach kids their rights"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As deportations rise in President Trump\u2019s second term, New York City schools have made efforts on several fronts to inform immigrant families of their rights in a sanctuary city.<\/p>\n

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Trainings. Flyers. Referrals to immigration advocates and legal services.<\/p>\n

But education officials were in search of a medium to better share the information with young people.<\/p>\n

This week, the NYC Department of Education released a 32-page comic book based on real events in the news and with guidance from Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s immigrant affairs office. In an introduction, the authors wrote their hope is the comic can help educate the public and prepare immigrant students and their families for potential encounters with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith everything going on in the world \u2014 with myself as an immigrant, mayor as an immigrant \u2014 I\u2019m thinking about what we need to do to ensure that every young person feels safe in our schools,\u201d Schools Chancellor Kamar Samuels said in an interview.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re heading into the summer, and we know kids are always looking for, and parents are always looking for, a fun way to address a very serious topic. I think doing it through a comic book makes it accessible for people.\u201d<\/p>\n

The rights presented in the comic represent a doubling down on New York\u2019s sanctuary city laws, which, among other protections, maintain that non-local law enforcement, such as ICE, can\u2019t enter a public school without a judicial warrant.<\/p>\n

The city\u2019s approach has been a flashpoint of controversy amid the Trump immigration crackdown. The Trump administration has tried going after the city\u2019s policies for undocumented immigrants, including by filing a federal lawsuit last summer. Mamdani signed an executive order as recently as February reinforcing New York\u2019s sanctuary status.<\/p>\n

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The comic book is the latest school-based initiative aimed at supporting immigrant students \u2014 a list that also includes a program that connects teachers with resources to support newcomer families, and informal networks of parents and advocates who serve as rapid response teams when a child or their parent is detained. It\u2019s the 42nd comic published by the city\u2019s public school system, which uses in-house graphic texts as part of its social studies and civics curriculum.<\/p>\n

The comic is expected to be distributed in schools, alongside a resource guide and lesson plan for educators. So far, 75,000 copies of the comic have been printed in English, and 75,000 in Spanish. Education officials said they\u2019re on track to translate the comic into a dozen other languages in a digital format this month,.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was really important,\u201d said Tamara Mair, who leads Project Open Arms, the public school initiative that supports newly arrived immigrant families. \u201cThat it got to reach every kid in our system, that they had something that I could understand with my family.\u201d<\/p>\n

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That information has become increasingly relevant since the start of Trump\u2019s second term, with a rise of high-profile cases of local public school students being detained or deported. Those include Dylan Lopez Contreras, a Bronx high school student held in federal immigration detention for 10 months, and 6-year-old Dayra, a Queens elementary school student who was deported with her mother to Ecuador.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis comic book was created to meet students where they are and provide clear, accessible information that can help them support themselves and their families during moments of uncertainty,\u201d Mayor\u2019s Office of Immigrant Affairs Commissioner Faiza Ali said in a statement.<\/p>\n

In one of the stories, readers meet the fictional Alfonso family as an ICE agent knocks on their apartment door in Jamaica, Queens. Rodrigo Alfonso tells his son, Diego, to open the door. But Diego knows his rights and tells his dad: \u201cNot yet.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rodrigo is uncertain, but at his son\u2019s urging, complies. The graphic text instructs Rodrigo to ask the agents,\u00a0some depicted in face masks to shield their identity, who they are, what they\u2019re there for, and if they have a warrant to enter his home.\u00a0The vignette shows the importance of informing students of their rights, Samuels said, \u201cso that they can be advocates for themselves and for others.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSometimes the young people are going to be the people who are more knowledgeable, and that\u2019s why it\u2019s so important that we are doing this in schools,\u201d Samuels said.<\/p>\n

The city\u2019s school system started publishing comic books in 2020. It has to date printed 5.6 million graphic texts across 42 titles, making it one of the largest comic publishers in the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a really beautiful comic,\u201d said Joe Schmidt of the Department of Social Studies and Civics, which publishes the comics. \u201cAs soon as kids can kind of get their hands on it, open it up,\u201d<\/p>\n

Samuels said he never expected to be on the front page of a comic book.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was definitely not on my bingo card when I started in education,\u201d the chancellor said. \u201cBut I think it\u2019s good to, especially as an immigrant, be represented in this way.\u201d<\/p>\n

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