Posted on 04/17/2008 11:36:56 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
After a tough day of testing on Wednesday, some Hamilton County Schools students got off their buses to find an even more stressful situation at home: Their parents were nowhere to be found.
Tennessee and local officials still are assessing the needs of the children, who they say are among those most profoundly affected by Wednesday’s sweeping federal immigration raid at Chattanooga’s Pilgrim’s Pride poultry plants.
“There are a lot of families really hurting,” said Mike Feely, executive director of the St. Andrew’s Center, a resource for the city’s multi-cultural communities. “If you have that many moms and dads arrested, that’s just plain old rough. We’re going to be cleaning up for a long time because of this.”
The U.S. Department of Immigration and Customs Enforcement arranged for the Tennessee Department of Children’s Services to be on hand during the raid, which took place about 8:15 a.m., to ensure that any unchaperoned children would have a place to stay, ICE spokeswoman Leticia Zamarrita said.
She could not say how many children were affected.
“It’s certainly something that ICE doesn’t take lightly,” Ms. Zamarrita said.
Any children born in the United States have the right to remain in the country whether their parents are deported or not, she said. If the children are here illegally, they will not be prosecuted in court but will be required to leave the country if and when their parents are deported, Ms. Zamarrita said.
A handful of Children’s Services officials were on standby Wednesday to discuss custody arrangements with detained parents, according to agency spokesman Rob Johnson. No children had been taken into state custody by Wednesday evening, he said, since neighbors and relatives were able to step in and help.
Hamilton County Schools officials spent the day helping to coordinate the custody effort after the raid, which came as students systemwide were taking Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment Program tests, schools spokeswoman Danielle Clark said.
“If we had knowledge of students whose parents work at (Pilgrim’s Pride), we took steps to ensure that, if they were taking the bus home or were supposed to be picked up, there would be someone there to meet them,” Ms. Clark said. Every child was accounted for by the end of the day, she said.
The system has no idea how many of those children might be undocumented, she said, because schools officials are not allowed to ask for more than a birth certificate and proof of residency before enrolling a child.
Ms. Clark said the schools will concentrate today on making sure any affected students return to continue TCAP testing, since schools without 95 percent test participation will not be able to meet adequate yearly progress guidelines mandated by the federal No Child Left Behind law.
But officials also want students to return to school because they can find the comfortable environment and counseling they may no longer have at home, she said.
“School is a place where they feel safe, feel loved and feel cared for,” Ms. Clark said. “It’s about making sure the kids get what they need.”
Would the birth certificate not give you a clue ???
Would the lack of prior school records not give you a clue ???
Would the need for ESL classes and the fact that Mom speaks another language other than English NOT GIVE YOU A CLUE ???
PING
Bring lots of tissues
No need for tissues. Kick em the hell out of my country.
If you take chances with the futures of your children they sometimes pay a big price.
If you give your child a gun he may use it. If you take your child swimming at the beach he may be pulled out by the current.
If they don't want to run the risks of getting caught they should stay in their own damned country.
But it is okay to take “CULT” members children living in a “COMPOUND” in Texas away from their parents.
Were those falsified as well?....are our children at risk?
So where are the FLDS cheerleaders? Shouldn’t they be here howling about this unconstitutional action by the jack-booted thugs? Where’s the PROOF that every single one of these people is here illegally? And what right do they have to take the children when their parents haven’t been convicted of a crime? < /s>
Crooked ass politicians and the pursuit of cheap labor is turning this country into a third rate Mexican barrio. Our country is literally being sold out from under us.
The mere fact that we allow these sidewalk squatted out kids automatic citizenship, and then use their citizenship, gained after having performed an illegal act as an argument for letting the “illegal” mother and father stay as well, makes a huge statement about us. The media sympathies make no sense and are displaced.
Which ones GWB?
There seems to be a virtual world out there, the population of which is increasing by leaps and bounds. Perhaps it started with the mythical families of enthusiastic voters, living at mythical addresses (one such world created for Loretta Sanchez in her fraudulent campaign against Cong Bob Dornan)..........
Join me now, amigos, for a tour of post office boxes in our border region: La Zona de Tolerancia Where anything goes and whither goeth many many SS checks, sometimes many to the same mailbox. Our amigos y vecinos del sur invented the virtual person ages ago when they discovered that one Mexican in Mexico could easily be three or four people in the nearby US territory of Aztlán.
Manuel Rodriguez y Gomez soon discovered that he was listed alphabetically under G for Gomez. So the next time, he simply becomes Manuel Rodriguez, But few gringo flak catchers knew that he could be Manuel Gomez-Rodriguez, or Manuel R. Gomez. María Hernández, his encantadora esposa, is actually María Hernández de Rodriguez, Maria Rodriguez, María Rodriguez-Gomez, etc. ad nauseam, depending upon the head of the unit's imaginaciòn and the incompetence of the issuing agencies. Soon, como la noche sigue la tarde, came drivers licenses in each name, all kinds of multiple goodie plastic ID's for health care, food stamps, and the entire panoply of CA welfare services. Not to mention green cards and SS IDs.
You see gringos, in the old-fashioned Spanish culture, one's name is a matter that permits of much personal interpretation. Besides, there are just not that many surnames in Spanish to begin with. A simple phone book check in Yourtown USA should prove that to your satisfaction. Look up José Sánchez. Then 18 pages later .....
Thus, it seemed so natural to Loretta Sanchez. She gave each contrived persona a contrived family ... and hey, they had to live somewhere ... and vote for someone ... so they voted for Loretta Sanchez (who fraudulently won the Cong seat of Bob Dornan). By Kenny Bunk
No problem, buses leave everyday for casa del grandpa.
Yep.
And while they may not have been violated at the compound, they certainly were probed and photographed by the doctors.
A map in an Absolut vodka ad depicts Mexico owning California, Texas, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, and other U.S. territory, with the slogan, “In an Absolut World,” and panders to the “separatist” movement among Mexicans, according to the National Illegal Immigration Boycott Coalition (NIIBC).
“There is a rapidly growing separatist movement in the United States that is being fueled by illegal immigration across our southern border with Mexico,” the group said in a statement. “While many in the American media try to ignore or play down the threat, this radical movement is much stronger than most Americans know and global companies like Absolut are trying to cash in on it. “Sentiments that the Southwest United States rightfully belong to Mexico are so prevalent in Mexico and among illegal aliens that the Absolut vodka company ran this ad on a billboard and in a Mexican magazine.”
The ad’s message to the Mexican audience is, “In an Absolut (i.e., Perfect) world, one-third of the U.S. is returned to Mexican control,” according to the NIIBC, which represents more than 100 civic organizations fighting for secure borders and immigration enforcement.
Americans for Legal Immigration (ALIPAC) issued a statement declaring: “Over 100 American organizations dedicated to border security and the enforcement of existing immigration laws launched a nationwide boycott of Absolut vodka in response to their ad that ran in Mexico, which panders to a rising separatist movement inside the U.S. that is being fueled by illegal immigration.”
ALIPAC said in another statement: “History was made when American-made SKYY vodka sent out a press release proudly supporting the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and criticizing Absolut for their offensive advertising in Mexico.” The Treaty ended the Mexican War and gave the U.S. control of California, Nevada and Utah plus parts of Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado. The map in the Absolut ad shows Mexico controlling even more U.S. territory than that.
The National Illegal Immigration Boycott Coalition (NIIBC) has launched a boycott of Absolut vodka after the Swedish company ran the ad showing large areas of the U.S. as part of Mexico.
Polygomist wives ON welfare AND stealing? Because they claim to be single? Or what?
If cheap immigrant labor (working below minimum wage) is so vital to the continued operation of this country, why did Congress raise the minimum wage?
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