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If you or your child lacks documentation , you are going rk be in a hard place. It’s going to be best they believe they are legal until they are old enough to keep a secret.
Otherwise you may need to have a hard talk with them about immigration.
None of the other items mentioned would create an unsafe school environment.
You may also want curate your social media history to make sure that you don’t wind up with questions.
Other than that do the right thing for your family.
The news is trying to generate fear to generate interest for themselves.
Owning pets is problematic all on it’s own in an ethical vegan framework. The industrial breeding of animals and the supporting industries are not compatible with many ethical thoughts on animal rights.
The problems you mentions follow from that.
Buying an animal inherently takes away it’s innate agency ans supports the animal breeding industry.
Feeding an animal vegan foods when it’s natural diet would be from hunting is a side effect of buying an animal that you would have little chance of attracting from the wild.
When a breed is no longer capable of being a pet, you stop breeding it in captivity, and take care of all the of the living animals and suck up the ethical quagmire that was completely manufactured.