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BOSTON (WBZ NewsRadio) — The City of Boston is trying to assure immigrant students that it's safe to go to school.
As concern continues to grow about federal deportation efforts, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu said students may be nervous to go back to school.
"Actions from the federal government have gone far beyond what they had claimed, which was to focus on people with serious criminal records," Mayor Wu said.
Boston Public Schools Superintendent Mary Skipper spoke Wednesday, Sept. 3, with 80 volunteers briefly at an event to visit students who have a history of being chronically absent, with the goal of getting the students to start attending school again.
"One of the things the Mayor and I have talked about is this being a village, and that it takes a village to be able to embrace out Boston Public Schools and our students," Skipper said.
Skipper and Wu each stopped by a student's home, getting a guarantee the students would be in school for their first day on Thursday, Sept. 4.
We will do "whatever we can to protect our community members, to empower our students and their families, this city is not gonna back down and we will keep moving forward," Wu said.
WBZ NewsRadio’s James Rojas (@JamesRojas.bsky.social) reports.