Nebraska Fears Segregation in Schools

AP ^ | Feb 18, 2005 | SCOTT BAUER

[Ibredd]

In this country we supposed to have freedom, does this not include choce

[The Electrician]

The situation in Lexington and elsewhere in Nebraska has caught the attention of the state Legislature, which is considering a bill to thwart what some say amounts to legal segregation in the schools.

Isn't it wonderful to have people in government who believe that it is their responsibility to thwart the will of the people?

[deepFR]

http://www.cis.org/articles/2003/msktestimony410.html
Securing the Homeland Through
Immigration Law Enforcement

Testimony prepared for the U.S. House of Representatives
Committee on the Judiciary
Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims

"Department of Homeland Security Transition:
Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement"
April 10, 2003

Statement of Mark Krikorian
Executive Director of the Center for Immigration Studies



In response, the INS developed a "kinder, gentler" means of enforcing the law, which fared no better. Rather than conduct raids on specific employers, Operation Vanguard sought to identify illegal workers at all meatpacking plants in Nebraska through audits of their personnel records. The INS found about 4,000 workers, out of about 24,000, who appeared to be illegal, and scheduled interviews to determine their status. Three thousand of these workers turned out to be illegal aliens, and never showed up for their interviews, with the remaining 1,000 able to correct errors in their records.

Local law enforcement officials were very pleased with the program: "It’s an excellent program," said Grand Island Police Chief Kyle Hetrick. "It’s a positive thing. It’s effective." Despite the initial promise of this new enforcement strategy, employers and politicians actively criticized the very idea of enforcing the law: "It was ill-advised for Operation Vanguard to start out in a state with such low employment and an already big problem with a shortage of labor," said a former Nebraska governor who had been hired to lobby for an end to immigration law enforcement. As a result, plans to expand the program to other states and other industries were scrapped and the INS official who developed the program was forced into early retirement

[deepFR]

Immigration Quiz

http://www.fairus.org/Research/ResearchList.cfm?c=56

[No Dems 2004]

The US Census Bureau suggests that there's about 6% or so of Hispanics in Nebraska. So, I guess there would be quite a few in certain areas.

[No Dems 2004]

The US Census Bureau suggests that there's about 6% or so of Hispanics in Nebraska. So, I guess there would be quite a few in certain areas.

[Penner]

As a result, in Lexington, the in-town schools, with an enrollment of 2,500, have 804 students learning English as a second language, and 1,172 who are getting a free or reduced-price lunch. The six outlying elementary schools have about 130 students — none of them English learners, none of them living in poverty, according to the state Education Department.

Sorry to hear that the good people of Nebraska now have to deal with the California Problem. Coming next: a massisve raid on your state treasury and tax increases.

[Map Kernow]

And there is nothing Eisenhauer can do about it. Nebraska law allows students to switch schools without giving a reason.

Awwww.....

Gee, I'd like a law that says people have to use a lawyer to buy a house, to get divorced, to sue other people, get a patent, open a corporation....but unfortunately, California allows mere lay people not admitted to the Bar to choose to do these things for themselves. And without giving a reason either.

[/sarcasm]

[Map Kernow]

The situation in Lexington and elsewhere in Nebraska has caught the attention of the state Legislature, which is considering a bill to thwart what some say amounts to legal segregation in the schools.

The proposal would force the outlying elementary-only schools to merge with larger kindergarten-through-12th-grade districts. That could mean the closing of the smaller schools.

Even if passed, this stupid law won't stop the so-called "segregation" complained of because it is not the result of legally sanctioned Jim Crow laws but parental choice. Parents will turn to private schools, or home-school, or move out of the district. In the worst case, white couples will reconsider having children that are being born and raised simply to be part of some politician's "social experiment," or they'll move out of state.

[montag813]

in Lexington, the in-town schools, with an enrollment of 2,500, have 804 students learning English as a second language

And this idiot asks why the parents are taking their kids out of a school where 32% of the students can't even speak English???

[montag813]

"People in Lexington and Schuyler do not want their kids being polluted by Latin Americans and Hispanics," Huerta said. "They think they're not going to get the quality of education if they have a diverse classroom."

Diversity of "color"? No problem. Diversity of language? No freakin' way.

[huskerjim]

In Nebraska, the number of Mexicans in Lexington is so large, due to the meat packing jobs, that it is known as Mexington

[montag813]

But Aguilar said Hispanic students do not go to the schools outside of town because in many Hispanic households, both parents work and do not have cars to take their children to class....said she never considered sending them to schools outside town because they are too far away...

Excuses, excuses. Sounds to me like some parents care deeply about the education their children get, and others don't even care if they learn English.

[montag813]

I have no problem with legal immigrants. Get legal, or get out.

How about a corollary..."Learn English, or shut up".

[cake_crumb]

6 percent? If THAT'S the case, force one or two "hispanic" kids into each school. There's no other way to "desegregate" them otherwise.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

Folks are "speaking" with their feet!

[freedumb2003]

Same old segregarionist battles that were fought in the 50s and 60s.
Same excuses, same spin, same results.

Name one case in the '50s or '60s that was the result of criminals using tax dollars to advance their agenda.

Just one.

[sportutegrl]

What is his point, that Hispanic students can't learn unless they are seated next to a white? Here is a clue: Teach all of the children english, enforce discipline and order in the classroom, expect high standards. Teach as if the school if full of the best and the brightest. When the school starts winning awards, showing high test scores, etc, the parents will want to start coming back.

[cake_crumb]

"How about a corollary...'Learn English, or shut up'. "

Absolutely.

In fact, I have an even better one : Because the United States is the technological and economic capital of the world, most natives of non-English speaking countries learn at least SOME English so they can communicate with us and possibly gain better employment. They don't speak SPANISH to us, they speak ENGLISH.

If the average Iraqi living under a rabidly America-hating dictator can speak at least a few sentences of English, the average Mexican insisting on living in benefitting from the bounty this great country provides has NO excuse whatever not to learn our language.