Homeland Security’s ‘welfare’ check on Idaho migrant students raises school privacy questions
In other parts of the country, the welfare checks have resulted in children being taken out of their homes and put back into government custody
Andrea Otáñez
Senior Editor
Andrea Otáñez of Seattle, Washington, has worked as a reporter, copy editor, team editor and columnist for The Salt Lake Tribune and The Seattle Times. She is currently a teaching professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Washington, Seattle, where she teaches journalism classes and has developed courses in communication studies; race, gender, power and media representations of Latinx people; and critiques of journalistic objectivity.
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