El Roboto Subagua!
Posted on 07/03/2006 12:50:21 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch
PHOENIX (AP) - Students who placed second in a national underwater robotics competition won't be going to next year's contest because of the possibility of their illegal status in the United States.
The students, from Carl Hayden High School in Phoenix, recently beat out high school and college students from across the country, including the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and fell only to the reigning champs from the Marine Institute of Memorial University in Newfoundland, Canada.
On the heels of their success, the students learned that next year's contest will be held in Canada, and that they won't be going because their coaches won't risk taking students who may be in the country illegally.
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Neither Allan Cameron nor Fredi Lajvardi, the teachers who coach Carl Hayden's robotics team, know which students among the 50 or so members are legal residents.
"Our belief is that every kid can join our club and participate," Cameron said. "We're not going to pick and choose based on something our kids don't have any control over, like their birthplace."
Not willing to risk that a student could be refused re-entry to the United States, Cameron and Lajvardi said, the team won't compete in Canada.
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In the summer of 2004, four teenage boys from Carl Hayden won the robotics competition, stunning educators at the event and garnering worldwide media attention. Those students were undocumented immigrants, too. Now they are in college - one at the Scottsdale Culinary Institute - on private scholarships.
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How sad.
That reminds me. I need to call ICE and drop a dime on this school.
Maybe they'll pick up a few easy arrests and deportations. Then they can practice robotic engineering in their countries or origin.
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Life is so unfair
OK, I'm over it.
So, they're penalizing the students who worked hard who are legal. Have they also taken the trophy away from another school's team that would have gone to the next level? Seems a lot of kids are being penalized for the actions of a few.
Its a shame that American kids are being punished for the criminal behavior of others.
What we have here are students who have mooched off the largese of Citizens of the United States for the last twelve years to the tune of $75 to $125 thousand per, and now want us to feel sorry that their status is in question.
Oui vey...
How sad that Americans can not compete in this event because the coaching staff wants to look out for illegals.
Boo Hoo. Deport them.
I agree with you. By the way, great H.L. Mencken quote on your home page!
Exactly. ICE can't find their rears with both hands tied behind their backs so how does one expect them to read the freakin' paper to find the address, school, workplace, and front page picture of 3/4th of the illegals in the country.
Yeah, that they haven't been deported yet.
Imagine there were no countries. I wonder if you can. Nothing to live or die for. A brotherhood of man.
Boo hoo. Someone call the Whaambulance.
Hey, they're only doing the underwater robotics that Americans won't.
Yes it is.
why not just take whoever wants to go and leave the rest behind to ponder why their parent/guardian decided to be a moron?
Small price to pay to help secure our borders against terrorists.
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