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MIRA LOMA - Josh Denhalter took the symbolic step into the next phase of his life without any fuss. Little applause, but no discernible boos or honking party horns, greeted the announcement of his name Wednesday evening at the Jurupa Valley High School graduation. That is likely the way the 18-year-old wanted it. Denhalter received considerable media attention in March, after he was suspended from school for passing out fliers for an off-campus anti-illegal immigration protest. School district Superintendent Elliott Duchon has said Denhalter wasn’t suspended for expressing himself, but because he refused to stop passing out fliers and encouraging...

MIRA LOMA - A Jurupa Valley High School senior was denied his court request to wear an anti-illegal immigration T-shirt to school in Riverside County Superior Court on Wednesday. But 18-year-old Joshua Denhalter's disappointment is outweighed by school finals, graduation and saying goodbye to friends before he leaves for the Marines Corps in less than two weeks. "I think it was a good thing for me to try to get a point across," Denhalter said. "I'm just concentrating on graduating and getting in boot camp. But it would have been a great victory to wear my shirt." The emergency request...

MIRA LOMA A high school student sued his school district after he was suspended for distributing flyers about an off-campus rally against illegal immigration. Joshua Denhalter, an 18-year-old senior at Jurupa Valley High School, said he sought permission to hold a demonstration after a school assembly turned into a virtual rally supporting illegal immigrants. School officials denied his request, saying a protest could lead to violence. Denhalter said he then tried to organize an off-campus rally in March and was suspended for three days for passing out flyers about it on school property. He said he also was told he...

MIRA LOMA - A Jurupa Valley High School senior suspended for promoting an anti-immigration protest on campus has filed a lawsuit, arguing the school violated his free speech rights. Joshua Denhalter, 18, was suspended for three days in late March after he attempted to organize a counterprotest against pro-immigration-inspired demonstrations and school walkouts. The mass protests were in response to harsher penalties for illegal immigrants being proposed in Congress. "There are two standards. Students can walk out of school, walk on to freeways, and nothing happens to them. I try to do something legally, and I get slapped,'' Denhalter said...

Patriots: A brave young man named Josh Denhalter is organizing a protest that will take place outside of his school campus to respond to the vicious anti-American hatred spewed by MECHA and pro-illegal alien protesters at a rally on Monday. He is fed up with their flying of the Mexican flags and their anti-American rhetoric and wants to fight back. He has attempted to organize a rally on campus but has been thwarted by double talking school administrators who are simply attempting to delay and stonewall to get through the week. The school has Spring Break next week and they...