Thread: Students asked to boycott school for immigration demonstrati

Published: 04.23.2007

Students asked to boycott school for immigration demonstration
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Tucson activists are calling for high school and college students to boycott school and participate in a planned May 1 march for immigrant rights.
The march will coincide with similar work and shopping boycotts in Phoenix and throughout the country on May 1.
Tucson students are being asked to boycott school to protest an Arizona law passed by voters in November. Proposition 300 requires students to show proof of legal residency to receive in-state tuition at public colleges and universities.
"I think everybody should have equal access to education," Pima Community College student Wesley Creigh said. "Many of these students didn't make the decision to immigrate to the U.S. Their parents did."
The nationwide boycott will be held in protest of increased immigration raids and a bill introduced by Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., and Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill.
The law would increase border security, create a guest-worker program and require illegal immigrants already in the country to pay fines and leave the country before applying for legal status.
Organizers want lawmakers to craft legislation less focused on increased enforcement.
The May 1 boycott comes a year after marches drew more than a million people into the streets in cities across the country in a call for comprehensive immigration reform.
http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/printDS/179715

I ask, will we ever hear a comment from the School Districts? Last year they gave the kids marching a bus ride back to the school and water!

Each Student that walks out. Should, be suspended.

If they all walk out of every school we could get an idea of how much
the American taxpayer spends on illegal invaders, overcrowding, schoools
that should be maintained for our children.

Better yet, expulsion should be used.

As an American citizen who has had to pay out-of-state tuition while the school grants in-state tuition to illegal aliens, even though the Federal law forbids it, I say

1. Our educational budgets are limited, our classrooms are limited.
2. Illegal aliens can not legally work in the United States, we can not legally benefit by providing taxpayer funded educational benefits to illegal aliens.
3. The adult children of illegal aliens DO have choices. They can return to their home countries. For those from Mexico they can receive a college education virtually free.
4. Rewarding illegal behavior only encourages more illegal behavior.

Let them march. It will only infuriate the American citizens more. And create a greater dissent for the ridiculous amnesty proposals.

JaninGeorgia, glad to have you with us at ALIPAC, we need all the help we can get!!

These kids should be expelled, Please do a walk out and keep on going, NO in state tuition to people who should not be here in the first place.

These students also need to learn to keep there opinons to themselves and stop trying to stop our children from having their freedom of speech at their colleges, this is happening all to often, them trying to shut our kids up because they don't like the message, tuff!!!

Our Board of Regents is having a community forum on May 8th. I expect to have a hostile audience, but I am still speaking out.

Dalton GA is the self proclaimed "carpet capital of the world". Many illegal aliens are employed in the carpet industry. There has been an unprecedented rise in the illegal alien population in Dalton in the last few years. Dalton State College's curriculum caters to the carpet industry. Several carpet industry representatives serve on the Dalton State board.
The representative on the Board of Regents from Dalton is a carpet company CEO. And The Chattanooge Times Free Press from 4-18-07 is reporting that the illegal alien students are asking people to sign a petition:

Several students from Dalton State asked those present to sign a petition in support of the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act. The DREAM Act would grant conditional visas and later legal permanent residence to illegal-immigrant college students who were brought to the United States as youngsters. Supporters hope that the Democratic-controlled Congress will approve the measure this year.

The students also addressed in-state tuition waivers in Georgia.

Early this year, the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia advised presidents of state colleges and universities not to give tuition waivers to students who are in the country illegally. Tuition waivers are granted to students who do not qualify for in-state tuition rates, such as athletes from out of state or foreign nationals in the country legally.

Board of Regents spokesman John Millsaps has said the agency's lawyer reviewed SB529 and the new policy will ensure compliance with the law.

Up to 80 Dalton State students would be affected by the new policy, officials have said. The board has scheduled a public hearing regarding in-state waivers at Dalton State in early May.

"In past years, students who could not prove their legal status could go under in-state tuition, under a waiver," one Dalton State student told the CLILA group. "Rates for foreigners are four times higher than in-state residents. This is very difficult for us to pay. With these kind of rates, do you think our students will be able to attend college?"

"We are asking for an opportunity to be able to go to college and pay in-state tuition," he said as he asked the crowd to sign the petition.



I very definitely am going to be there.

Good for you, these kids should not be getting a college education on taxpayer money, we have enough low income familys who are citizens and their kids need our money and help, not foreign nationals, it's not right.

WTG JanInGeorgia

Another full day has passed and all the news programs have aired and not yet a word from any of the school districts or the community college. They obvious don't care to comment on such a touch subject. I guess we're in for another year without repercussions for abhorrent behavior in school.