GRAND RAPIDS, MI - Jaysmin Fuentes Angelino, a senior at Union High School, has been a student within the Grand Rapids Public Schools (GRPS) district her entire life. Attending class each day, Fuentes Angelino said she’s watched more and more students in the past two weeks stay home from her majority-Hispanic high school,

City commissioners on Tuesday will look at requests they’ve gotten to make Grand Rapids a sanctuary city, after close to 2,000 emails and letters were sent in support of the move over the past week. (Jan.

Concerned residents spoke out at a city commission meeting Tuesday night, requesting Grand Rapids be designated a sanctuary city. It comes on the heels of close to 2,000 emails and letters sent in support of the move over the past week.

Nerida Aviles has been living, working and paying taxes in the city of Grand Rapids with her husband and seven children for 26 years. Aviles, 45, is a Mexican immigrant who said she has not yet received permanent citizenship in the U.