Taxpayer-funded Minnesota charter school shuts down in-person learning amid ICE raids

A taxpayer-funded Minnesota charter schoolhouse moved classes online this week citing information concerns, portion a assemblage enactment advised amerciable immigrants to enactment location amid reported U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) enactment and warned of wide fearfulness and disruption successful the section Myanmar community.

Sejong Academy, a nationalist charter schoolhouse successful St. Paul, announced it would determination to online learning for the remainder of the week aft citing concerns for the "safety and well-being" of its schoolhouse community, according to a announcement posted connected its website.

"Sejong Academy volition proceed with online learning for the remainder of this week (January 14 and 15)," the school’s website read. "Thank you for your continued enactment and practice arsenic we prioritize the information and well-being of our schoolhouse community."

The schoolhouse said students would be classes remotely Wednesday and Thursday earlier a antecedently scheduled time disconnected Friday for unit nonrecreational development. The announcement did not specify the quality of the information concerns prompting the decision.

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The displacement came arsenic Urban Village, a Minnesota-based assemblage organization, released a video and posted statements connected Instagram addressing migration enforcement enactment and urging amerciable immigrants to stay astatine home.

In the video, a typical of Urban Village said the enactment was communicating urgent accusation "regarding ICE," portion different talker advised radical without a greenish paper oregon impervious of citizenship to enactment location and debar opening their doors to radical they bash not recognize.

The video besides referenced schools offering online learning options for families acrophobic astir sending children to school.

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In a abstracted Instagram post, Urban Village said members of Minnesota’s Myanmar diaspora had been detained by ICE and U.S. Border Patrol and transferred to detention centers extracurricular the state.

The enactment claimed immoderate detainees were pressured to motion documents waiving ineligible rights and alleged enforcement actions that whitethorn person violated policies oregon laws, citing accusation obtained from a nationalist official.

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Urban Village said it was advising noncitizens and non-green paper holders to stay home, debar driving and bounds interaction amid what it described arsenic heightened enforcement, adding that the guidance had caused parents to miss work, aesculapian appointments to beryllium skipped and children to miss schoolhouse and activities.

Sejong Academy did not notation migration enforcement oregon ICE successful its online learning announcement, and it is unclear whether the schoolhouse coordinated with Urban Village oregon adjusted operations successful effect to the organization’s guidance.

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According to IRS filings reviewed by ProPublica and verified by Fox News Digital, Sejong Academy reported receiving much than $7 cardinal successful authorities grants, underscoring its presumption arsenic a publically funded charter school.

Fox News Digital has reached retired to Sejong Academy and Urban Village for comment.