On Monday, some 36,000 students from 25 Los Angeles County school districts walked out of class, officials said, with more than 1,000 protesting outside City Hall for much of the day. The youths tied up streets and even made dangerous forays onto freeways to loudly protest against legislation that would make it a felony to be in the U.S. illegally, impose new penalties on employers who hire illegal immigrants, and build fences along part of the U.S.-Mexican border.Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa praised the students' action, but also urged them to return to school.
I want you to know that there are people right now all across the country that agree with you that we need immigration reform that rewards work, that gives people a pathway to citizenship, that allows families to stay together, Villaraigosa told the crowd.
California state Sen. Richard Alarcon speaks to students gathered near the Van Nuys Federal Building Monday to protest proposed immigration reforms. Authorities reported that more than 36,000 students from Los Angeles County schools walked out of class to join in protest marches. Other protests were reported across the state and in Washington, Phoenix, Detroit and Yakima, Wash.
I used to work near 223rd & Avalon.
Lots of businesses there are owned by legal immigrants. (one of whom signed my paycheck.)
Good job, amigos, preventing people who obey our laws from making a living.......
Whenever people start saying stuff like "we're humans," or "we're human beings," it means they have virtually no argument, or no argument at all.
That certainly appears to be the story here.
So if I enter Mexico illegally, enter my son into a Mexican public school at Mexican taxpayer expense while waving an American flag around, I should expect the same rights as Mexican citizens?
Nothing like STRICT discipline to get those unruly students back in line. Problem solved, right?
isn't truancy a crime? imagine how much revenue LA could generate issuing the fines for all these truant students.
PARTY!!!
"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."
I think this pretty much sums it up. They acknowledge their illegal status but claim they are not crimminals, all the while the bleeding hearts clubs are ready to remove their guilt by making them "Legal".
Before letting any of these kiddies back into school, make their parents show that they are in the country legally. If not, take them and their parents back to Mexico where they belong. They can protest there all they want to.
...now we just need to lead these students to believe that al Quada is in favor of immigration reform...
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You know, when I was in school, any unexcused absence knocked your grade down 10 points. These kids are quickly approaching negative grades.
Let's see how much protesting goes on in summer school.
He's a self-confessed "illegal" and wants not to be treated like a criminal.
That just makes my head hurt.
I am in Houston, and we have a lot of kids walking out of school today. My son (15) went to school, knowing there would be a protest today. I don't think he is participating, but I kept my daughter home today because I know she would be right in the middle of it. Ifigured she needed a real civics lesson from mom more than she needed her classes today.
LAUSD mouthpiece tried unsuccessfully to define "lockdown" earlier this morning on KTTV. The gist is, doors are not locked, people can move in and out of the buildings and the campus, but the kids were ordered to stay in class until "Nutrition Time," (her term), of 10 a.m.
[high-pitched mm-hmm!]
Nutrition time. How institutional.