Posted on 03/28/2006 10:10:51 AM PST by BurbankKarl
Edited on 03/28/2006 10:15:04 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Police herded students off an access road leading to the Vincent Thomas Bridge in San Pedro on Tuesday as demonstrations continued against possible immigration reforms. Student marches were also staged Tuesday morning in Bellflower and Compton.
Despite rain and a lockdown in the Los Angeles Unified School District, a group of about 200 students massed near 223rd Street in the Harbor Gateway area in San Pedro and started walking south on Avalon Boulevard shortly after 8 a.m. A separate group of students in San Pedro tried to get onto the Vincent Thomas Bridge, but police stopped them and turned them around, detaining a few.
In the San Fernando Valley, students reportedly walked out of Birmingham High School.
Los Angeles Unified campuses are locked down Tuesday, but the immigration bill that sparked two days of protests will be a topic of classroom discussion, officials said.
More than 36,000 students from 26 school districts throughout Los Angeles County skipped classes on Monday and marched through streets and on freeways to protest the immigration bill being debated by the U.S. Senate.
About 1,000 students rallied for much of the day at Los Angeles City Hall, with several representatives meeting privately with Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. The mayor later spoke to the students, saying their voices were being heard, but urging them to return to class.
Los Angeles police Chief William Bratton said Monday's rainy forecast would also likely prevent any more mass walkouts by students.
LAUSD officials said middle and high school classes throughout the district would have classroom discussions on Tuesday about a bill introduced by Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., which would crack down on employers hiring illegal workers and people smuggling illegal immigrants into the country.
"We will have in-class teachings for students so that they can have conversations to deal with this issue in a very productive way," said Rowena Lagrosa, executive officer of educational services for the district. "We are being proactive so that those students will show up for school tomorrow."
The class discussions will also address freedom of speech, civil protests and events in U.S. history that have involved public protests, according to a district statement.
In addition to the lockdown, police presence will be beefed up on LAUSD campuses, district officials said.
Students who took part in the mass demonstration on Monday and last Friday could face discipline ranging from suspension to exclusion from cebtain school-sponsored functions, Lagrosa said.
The LAPD was placed on citywide tactical alert during Monday's protest, which led to five arrests during a demonstration at Van Nuys City Hall, LAPD Lt. Paul Vernon said.
Some students also snarled traffic when they marched on the Harbor (110) and Hollywood (101) freeways in downtown Los Angeles. Other students were reported marching on freeways in San Pedro and Orange County.
"We may be illegal immigrants, but we are human," Metropolitan High School senior Melania Preciado said at City Hall as she waved a Mexican flag. "We deserve the same rights as everyone else, not be treated like criminals."
The Sensenbrenner bill, HR 4437, would require employers to verify Social Security numbers with the Department of Homeland Security, increase penalities for immigrant smuggling and stiffen penalities for undocumented immigrants who reenter the United States after having been removed.
Under the bill, approved last December by the House of Representatives, local law enforcement agencies would be reimbursed for detaining illegal immigrants. Refugees with aggravated felony convictions would also be barred from receiving green cards.
The U.S. Senate's Judiciary Committee softened the immigration reform bill on Monday by voting to create a path for some of the nation's estimated 12 million illegal immigrants to become citizens without first leaving the country.
Under the version voted on by the committee, additional foreign workers would be allowed to enter the United States temporarily under a program that also could lead to citizenship.
Additionally, the committee adopted an amendment by Sen Richard Durbin, D- Ill., that would protect charitable organizations and churches from criminal charges for providing aid to illegal immigrants.
The bill will now move to the Senate floor, where an intensive debate likely to find Republicans fighting each other is expected to begin this week.
Yes. But I haven't been there in years...I saw the way they love to trash our military so didn't bother going back.
FRmail me if there's a reason I should right now. Blech.
Kids in our school could not leave our rooms, even to go to the bathroom. They locked the bathroom across from my room. It's nice that new teachers like me get to have our classes disrupted.
" You better rethink your stance about hating the GOP because you are going to become third class citizens in your own cities."
Just who do you think is ushing this in if not the GOP and DNC?
good grief, lunacy reigns supreme.
I am joining the PRI
Another thing to bring back is all classes in higher levels are taught in English.
They walked out here in Houston, as well, and it was a really rich experience to listen to the "protesters" comments on TV. It's as if the concept of LAW is absolutely, totally foreign to them. (pun unintended)
"We're standing up for our people! We're supposed to be a country for all people!"
Create a hundred permutations of the above idiocy and you have a good representation of their "position."
This is what happens when you ignore lawbreakers waaayyyy too long.
MM
FWIW.....circulating on MySpace...
Date: Mar 28, 2006 8:35 PM
Body: ~*(BIGGEST WALKOUT IN STUDEN HISTORY ON MARCH 31, 2006)*~
EVERYONE SPREAD THE WORD THAT THERE IS TO BE NO MORE WALKOUTS THIS 2 DAYS COMING UP
(WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY) LET THE SCHOOL TEACHERS, POLICE MEN AND GOVERNMENT THINK THAT
WE STUDENTS HAVE STOPED PROTESTING LET THEM THINK WE ARE NOT SEAKING ANYMORE TROUBLE
AND ON FRIDAY MARCH 31, 2006 ALL MEXICANS/LATINOS/HISPANICS/CHICANOS ARE TO WALKOUT OF CAMPUS
AFTER 1ST PERIOD AND ARE TO MARCH TO EVERY POLITICAL BUILDING THEY CAN REACH. IF YOU GOT FRIENDS
THAT AREN'T MEXICANS INVITE THEM TO PROTEST TOO TELL EM THEY COULD BE LOSING FRIENDS/GIRLFRIENDS ECT...
WEATHER THEY BLACK, WHITE, JAP., ECT...TELL EM TO HELP OUT THIS FRIDAY IS GONNA BE THE BIGGEST STUDENT PROTEST
THE GOVERNMENT HAS SEEN BUT THERE IS TO BE NO WALKOUTS (WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY) LET THE
SCHOOL AND THE GOVERNMENT THINK WE HAVE STOPED PROTESTING AND THIS WAY THEY WON'T PUT SCHOOLS
ON LOCKDOWN SO LET THINKS COOL DOWN AND ON MARCH 31,2006 REMEMBER EVERY MEXICAN/LATINO/CHICANO/HISPANIC
AND ANYONE ELSE THAT WANTS TO HELP THIS CAUSE TO WALKOUT RIGHT AFTER 1ST PERIOD SO LET ALL YOUR FRIENDS
KNOW WAT IS GOING ON THIS FRIDAY COMING UP..........................WE GONNA MAKE HISTORY THIS MONTH
*REMEMBER NO SCHOOL ON THIS FRIDAY COMING UP (MARCH 31, 2006)
*NO PROTEST THIS 2 DAYS COMING UP (WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY)
THIS WAY ON FRIDAY SCHOOLS WON'T BE ON LOCK DOWN
*TELL ANYONE YOU THINK MIGHT NOT HAVE ANYWAY
OF KNOW THIS INFORMATION
*TELL YOUR PARENTS INVITE THEM TO COME AND TELL EM TO INVITE THERE FRIENDS
*IF YOU DECIDE NOT TO GO TO SCHOOL ON WEDNESDAY OR THURSDAY
DON'T DO ANYTHING NO WALKS NO NOTHING LET THEM THINK WE HAVE STOPPED
*IF YOU GO TO SCHOOL WEDNESDAY OR THURSDAY TO SCHOOL
WEAR A WHITE T-SHIRT OR THE MEXICAN COLORS
............AND MOST IMPORTANTLY DO IT IN A FASHION AND AN ORDERLY WAY
DON'T STIR UP ANY DRAMA
COPY AND REPOST THIS.............
I'm leaning towrds PAN this november....but I could vote Revolucion Democratica if I'm cranky..
As someone who has did just about everyone of those jobs in his youth, I can absolutely positively guarantee that you are full of it.
Illegal immigrants do not earn enough to pay back in taxes what they cost in entitlements. Period. Most estimates are that rewarding them with legal status will TRIPLE the current social costs.
The only people benefitting from illegal alien labor are ILLEGALS and the CRIMINALS who employ them.
Who pays the price?
We the People.
They did exactly that before the illegals came and drove the wages down to the point that these jobs no longer provide a livable wage.
If that goes through, I'm starting a recall drive for any congresscritter in my state who votes for it. And I've let them know that this week.
You sound like a real fine specimine of humanity. /sarc
The writer shows nice command of spelling and grammar.
Click here to see what's going on in the senate, and who voted on what.
Also PLEASE sign up so we may have a louder voice.
http://numbersusa.com/hottopic/specterproposal.html
I think this kid needs to stay in class for a few extra grammar lessons!
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