Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt rejected a controversial state board of education proposal to ask students’ families about their immigration status and criticized the board’s “needless political drama” in a challenge to the state’s increasingly Trumpian educational direction.
The proposal, which requires parents to report their immigration or citizenship status when enrolling their children in school, came as President Donald Trump and Republican leaders pledged to crack down on undocumented immigrants and carry out a mass deportation plan.
In just over a month in power, the Trump administration has sent troops to the U.S.-Mexico border, deported migrants to Guantanamo Bay and moved to strip temporary protections for certain migrants.
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