Education leaders throughout Rock Island are vowing support for students protected under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA.
The Trump Administration announced on Tuesday that it will end the program, which protects from deportation about 800,000 people who came to the country illegally as children.
Mike Oberhaus is the superintendent of the Rock Island School District.
"Any student who walks through our schools' doors will be educated just like any other students. We're not in that political game and as long as they keep coming, we'll keep educating them."
In a letter to students and faculty Tuesday, the president of Augustana College, Steven Bahls, vowed his support of the program, saying quote "I hope you will join me in urging Congress to act expeditiously to protect the Dreamers."
The Trump administration has given Congress until March to come up with an alternative to the program that was enacted by an Obama-era executive order in 2012.