Little-Acorn
Well-Known Member
Just as the sunrise follows the sunset... announce that you're actually going to start enforcing the law, and people who have been breaking it suddenly become a lot scarcer.
As I said in the title, I doubt that Hispanic students (all of them) are vanishing from the schools. Only the ones who are violating U.S. immigration laws. Whether at the behest of their parents or otherwise.
I've often wondered: How did the parents of thse kids they brought across the border at such young ages, intend to educate their own kids, knowing it was illegal for them to be in the U.S. and so they might be caught and deported? What were those parents' plans for their kids in such an event?
And why is it suddenly the **U.S. Government's** fault that the kids aren't getting the education they need? Isn't that the parents' fault in the first place?
Next, Alabama (among other states, like ALL of them) needs to announce that it will do periodic checks of people who have jobs in the state, checking on their immigration status. Or that they will do regular E-verify checks, or etc.
Abuse the U.S. laws enough, and it's only a matter of time before the U.S. (or in this case, at least one state) starts crackinng down.
And sure enough, the results are predictable.
I especially loved the last line quoted, from the school supervisor trying to talk the illegal alien kids into coming back (highlighted below). Hilarious! I'm sure his audience will believe him!
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http://news.yahoo.com/hispanic-students-vanish-alabama-schools-184555038.html
Hispanic students vanish from Alabama schools
By JAY REEVES - Associated Press | AP – 18 hrs ago...
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (AP) — Hispanic students have started vanishing from Alabama public schools in the wake of a court ruling that upheld the state's tough new law cracking down on illegal immigration.
Education officials say scores of immigrant families have withdrawn their children from classes or kept them home this week, afraid that sending the kids to school would draw attention from authorities.
There are no precise statewide numbers. But several districts with large immigrant enrollments — from small towns to large urban districts — reported a sudden exodus of children of Hispanic parents, some of whom told officials they planned to leave the state to avoid trouble with the law, which requires schools to check students' immigration status.
The anxiety has become so intense that the superintendent in one of the state's largest cities, Huntsville, went on a Spanish-language television show Thursday to try to calm widespread worries.
"In the case of this law, our students do not have anything to fear," Casey Wardynski said in halting Spanish. He urged families to send students to class and explained that the state is only trying to compile statistics.
(full text of the article can be read at the above URL)
As I said in the title, I doubt that Hispanic students (all of them) are vanishing from the schools. Only the ones who are violating U.S. immigration laws. Whether at the behest of their parents or otherwise.
I've often wondered: How did the parents of thse kids they brought across the border at such young ages, intend to educate their own kids, knowing it was illegal for them to be in the U.S. and so they might be caught and deported? What were those parents' plans for their kids in such an event?
And why is it suddenly the **U.S. Government's** fault that the kids aren't getting the education they need? Isn't that the parents' fault in the first place?
Next, Alabama (among other states, like ALL of them) needs to announce that it will do periodic checks of people who have jobs in the state, checking on their immigration status. Or that they will do regular E-verify checks, or etc.
Abuse the U.S. laws enough, and it's only a matter of time before the U.S. (or in this case, at least one state) starts crackinng down.
And sure enough, the results are predictable.
I especially loved the last line quoted, from the school supervisor trying to talk the illegal alien kids into coming back (highlighted below). Hilarious! I'm sure his audience will believe him!
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http://news.yahoo.com/hispanic-students-vanish-alabama-schools-184555038.html
Hispanic students vanish from Alabama schools
By JAY REEVES - Associated Press | AP – 18 hrs ago...
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (AP) — Hispanic students have started vanishing from Alabama public schools in the wake of a court ruling that upheld the state's tough new law cracking down on illegal immigration.
Education officials say scores of immigrant families have withdrawn their children from classes or kept them home this week, afraid that sending the kids to school would draw attention from authorities.
There are no precise statewide numbers. But several districts with large immigrant enrollments — from small towns to large urban districts — reported a sudden exodus of children of Hispanic parents, some of whom told officials they planned to leave the state to avoid trouble with the law, which requires schools to check students' immigration status.
The anxiety has become so intense that the superintendent in one of the state's largest cities, Huntsville, went on a Spanish-language television show Thursday to try to calm widespread worries.
"In the case of this law, our students do not have anything to fear," Casey Wardynski said in halting Spanish. He urged families to send students to class and explained that the state is only trying to compile statistics.
(full text of the article can be read at the above URL)
