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Hillcrest High School in Jamaica, Queens, with over 3,500 largely immigrant students, became the first school to create protections and needed services to immigrant students to be able to access education without fear.

This is an important grassroots achievement in light of ICE’s recent incursions into school areas in other parts of the country.

Later this week, the official signing of the Immigrant Safe Zone Declaration will take place at Hillcrest High School in Jamaica, Queens.

Wednesday, June 4th at 3:30 PM
PRESS & COMMUNITY SIGNING OF IMMIGRANT SAFE ZONE DECLARATION
Hillcrest High School
160-05 Highland Avenue
Jamaica Estates, New York 11432
[Take the F train to Parsons Blvd. in Queens]

Interestingly enough, some of my Tias and my tio graduated from Hillcrest High School, just blocks from where my abuela currently lives. More information, including background on the grassroots activists responsible after the jump.

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