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title: 5 ways proposed immigration rule could impact CO students and schools
description: "NEWS:Chalkbeat: Implied challenges for educators."
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# [5 ways proposed immigration rule could impact CO students and schools](https://blog.dsstpublicschools.org/helix/5-ways-proposed-immigration-rule-could-impact-co-students-and-schools)

 Written by [DSST Public Schools](https://blog.dsstpublicschools.org/helix/author/dsst-public-schools) | 10/16/18

Advocates for immigrant families fear that a proposed federal rule governing green card decisions could lead to more children going hungry and losing housing and health care. That, in turn, could pose challenges for educators and schools.

 

The [proposed rule](https://s3.amazonaws.com/public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2018-21106.pdf) would allow the government to penalize some legal immigrants who have used public benefits by denying them permanent residency — a possibility that could prompt families to forgo any kind of government help. For children in those families, many of them citizens, the result could be hunger pangs, untreated illness, or outsized worry that their parents won’t be able to stay in the U.S. Inside schools, the new rule could mean more time and energy spent addressing students’ basic needs and the loss of funding from some public programs.

 

[Read the full story here.](https://www.chalkbeat.org/posts/co/2018/10/09/five-ways-a-proposed-immigration-rule-could-impact-colorado-students-and-schools/)

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