"Thousands of North Texas students skipped classes this week to demonstrate against the immigration bill now being considered by the U.S. "
I believe it should read "Thousands of illegal, law breaking Mexican, America hating "immigrants", posing as students rioted in the streets."
AFAIK, there were no riots in Texas. Although they came close in Ft. Worth, blocking the streets for example.
That said, the students are not the ones who chose to come to the US illegally, their parents did. Many of them are probably citizens, having been born here and under the current laws. As citizens they have a right to protest (it's in the first amendment, but they don't have a right to cut school. It's cutting school that got them in trouble, not protesting.
I want to know who coordinated this thing nationwide. Dollars to donuts it wasn't a bunch of kids on the Internet.
Reports on local radio in the DFW area were that many of the students didn't even know what the "protest" was about.