Marisa Treviño has a really touching and sad piece in the Huffington Post about the various legislative measures that have impacted undocumented immigrant children this week.

For example,

In Irving, Texas, school officials are reporting that, so far this week, about 90 immigrant chlidren have been pulled from the public schools by their parents.

Police have stepped up their efforts to deport undocumented immigrants so much that parents are worried that their children will be targeted in the schools.

In the neighboring suburb of Farmers Branch, city attorneys, on behalf of the City Council, have asked the local school district to supply them with the name and address of every child living in the city and enrolled in the public schools.

From a city council that earlier this year passed punitive measures meant to drive out undocumented immigrants from their suburb (like not allowing undocumented immigrants to rent apartments), no one trusts the motives for such an unusual request, and the City Council isn’t explaining why they want it either.

Between the DREAM Act stalling out and SCHIP failing to pass, immigrant parents throughout the U.S. are facing a much darker future for their children.