A soccer ball, a T-shirt: teachers scramble to say goodbye to students fleeing under Trump

As families move away to avoid deportation, excruciating goodbyes leave teachers feeling completely empty'

A soccer ball covered in signatures from classmates. A handwritten letter telling a child of their worth. A T-shirt bearing a school emblem meant to remind a newcomer how much they were loved in a place they once called home.

These are among the items teachers have given their multilingual learners - students who learn in more than one language - whose families fled their school districts rather than risk being detained by immigration agents.