Posted on 09/30/2011 4:36:48 PM PDT by mdittmar
Exodus follows ruling upholding state's tough law cracking down on illegal immigration
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Hispanic students have started vanishing from Alabama public schools in the wake of a court ruling that upheld the state's tough new law cracking down on illegal immigration.
Education officials say scores of immigrant families have withdrawn their children from classes or kept them home this week, afraid that sending the kids to school would draw attention from authorities.
There are no precise statewide numbers. But several districts with large immigrant enrollments — from small towns to large urban districts — reported a sudden exodus of children of Hispanic parents, some of whom told officials they planned to leave the state to avoid trouble with the law, which requires schools to check students' immigration status.
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Rucker or Redstone?
Proof that even Alabama is a cream-puff State: “ - - - Local and state officials are pleading with immigrant families to keep their children enrolled. The law does not ban anyone from school, they say, and neither students nor parents will be arrested for trying to get an education. - - - “
The cheapest way to strengthen our 2,000 mile Southern Border with Mexico is to strengthen our Illegal Alien laws in all 50 States.
Good for Alabama.
Much ado about nothing.
The article itself says nothing will happen to these family’s.
They are just compiling statistics.
Rucker. Graduated June 1982.
“Hispanic students vanish from Alabama schools...”
Romney will find a home for them in his liberal voter base. Some FReepers here will help.
Sorry you missed my attempt at subtrifuge.
Great, just what we need here in Texas, more illegals! We’re flooded enough already, thanks to Rick Perry’s “welcome mat.” I’ve had family here in TX since 1918, and it sickens me to see it go the way of California, but this is clearly what is happening.
My hat is off to Alabama, a state whose leaders obviously seem to care about the welfare of its citizens.
I'm sorry. I don't understand that word.
Please, please, please, pretty please... DO THIS IN GEORGIA! Illegal Mexicans, Columbians, Nicaraguans, where ever the hell you are from....go the hell home! Leave my country!
Local school teachers and administrators will howl because their bloated staff will need to be reduced, their bloated transporation system will need to be reduced, Federal assistance dollars will be reduced....Hey, that’s a good thing. If the teachers and administrators don’t like it I hear McDonalds is looking for people.
If we can get them all to go back home through Texas, it’s easier to corral them and make them go. Keep the pressure up!
Oh, like keeping them out of class WON'T throw up a red flag.
"Yes officer, this is a list of the missing children."
IDIOTS!
After reading the entire article, I see nothing that shows anybody is doing anything to deport these kids or stop their schooling.
All I see are a bunch of knuckleheads making money in a legal circle jerk.
I can’t remember for sure but I probably did. My stick buddy and I hit every steakhouse in the area at one time or another while we were there.
Read the article spanky.
So, what's the incentive of the parents to come forward?
Must be nice.
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