Posted on 03/30/2006 11:38:23 PM PST by beaversmom
Tensions over immigration reform heightened in the Phoenix area's East Valley Thursday when students raised a Mexican flag over Apache Junction High School — and then other students yanked it down and burned it. "I know (they) shouldn't have burned the Mexican flag," said Jacob Stewart, a 16-year-old sophomore. "I heard it was raised above the American flag and that just irked me."
He said the turbulence was tied to debates going on in the state Legislature and Congress, where ideas ranging from offering illegal immigrants a chance at citizenship to making them felons are being floated.
Freshman Chelsea Garcia, 15, and junior Brittany Ramage, 16, said the unrest had more to do with long-running racial tensions at the school.
The week's events might have sparked some anger, Ramage said, "but kids aren't too deep about that stuff."
The Hispanic student who brought the Mexican flag said he was responding to a remark directed at him Wednesday. The flag-raising, flag-burning, and shoving match that followed happened before most students arrived at school.
Six students — three Hispanic and three white — will be disciplined, Principal Chad Wilson said.
Officials with the Apache Junction Unified School District would not specify what punishment the six face.
Wilson did say in a letter sent home to parents that there would be "increased supervision, including additional police officers, on the campus over the next couple of days."
School flagpoles have been lightning rods across the country this week, including an incident in which a Houston high-school principal was disciplined after he flew a Mexican flag underneath his campus' U.S. and state flags.
A new political awareness among students has also been grabbing attention, as thousands have walked out on classes to join rallies in Phoenix and elsewhere. More than 100 students from Mesa's Carson Junior High and Westwood High schools marched in protest on Mesa streets Tuesday.
Those who place the sanctity of a foreign flag hoisted upon our soil as equal to that of our own are the problem.
not particularly to you, just want to say that David Horowitz in "Unholy Alliance" says that this whole border thing with the illegals was planned a few years ago by an antiamerican group, they started passing the word around or something , working towards this effort, it is very interesting, Keisha
I can't believe this is happening! Would you take a look at that sign, kinda like the Mexican woman at the bus stop, day after day she asked me questions about the bus, one day, nicely, I suggested she take an English course and learn English, she then , immediately said, "English, no!" ho hum
R-i-i-i-g-h-t. Cowards who cannot or will not defend themselves, owe both their safety and their freedom to those with the courage to defend them. Stand and fight for the Flag that affords you such liberal comforts, and the Nation that holds it dear, or stand clear and let the true Patriots of this nation defend you.
Cowardice on the front lines is the lowest form of surrender. The French are experts in this.
My husband grew up in a border town in Texas. Even 30 years ago these La Raza groups would hold big rallies, then the Mexican kids would get all worked up and large roving gangs would beat up every white kid they saw the next day. It's been going on for decades, but not quite so much in the glaring spotlight. And the pot is getting ready to boil over. I see violent clashes on the horizon.....
"We have Nicaragua, soon we will have El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica, and Mexico. One day, tomorrow or five years or fifteen years from now, we're going to take 5 to 10 million Mexicans and they are going into Dallas, into El Paso, into Houston, into New Mexico, into San Diego, and each one will have embedded in his mind the idea of killing ten Americans."
--Thomas Borge, Nicaragua Interior Minister as quoted in the Washington Times, March 27, 1985
You are wrong: this IS RED Dawn. No less an invasion than if Russkie paratroopers fell out of the sky. Whose flags are these invaders carrying? Mexican and Red (Communist) flags. What is the difference if we lose our country to Soviets carrying AK47 or to Illegal immigrants carrying the Mexican flag? Either way it's gone.
And worse:
In testimony Tuesday to Congress on the FBI’s budget request, director Robert Mueller said most recent reports on terrorist smuggling do not pan out.
However, he identified one that did: “This was an occasion in which Hezbollah operatives were assisting others with some association with Hezbollah in coming to the United States,” Mueller said. “That was an organization that we dismantled and identified those persons who had been smuggled in. And they have been addressed as well.”
Mueller did not elaborate further, except to say that the ring had attempted to smuggle the operatives into the United States from Mexico. ... .
Howzit, mate!
The paratroopers in the film were Cubano, Nicaraguan and other Hispanic-speaking proxies. The secret police advisors and their bodyguards were Russian.
Violence is just around the corner - the new Paris.
I tend to agree.
I can picture frenzied mobs burning flags and effigies in backward Islamic and third world countries....but don't like to see it here.
It's embarrassing to such primitive forms of antagonism between groups in this country.
I hope cooler heads prevail.
'Cooler heads' are exactly the ones who caused this unholy mess.
If Roger Cardinal Mahoney has anything to do with this, and there is evidence, then I want to paper the Vatican with a request for his defrocking....finally!
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