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    ElPaso Students skip school for third day

    http://elpasotimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/frontpage

    Students protest for third day

    Times staff reports
    Friday, March 31, 2006

    Across the nation, including in El Paso, high school students marked César Chávez Day with continued walkouts protesting pending immigration bills.

    San Jacinto Plaza in Downtown El Paso filled with about 2,500 protesters Friday morning — about half of whom were excited students from area high schools and at least one middle school; the other half adults, including elderly farmworkers, elected officials and veterans from the Chicano rights movement.

    In El Paso, it was the third day of energetic but largely peaceful protests for many of the students, but it was their first lesson in civil disobedience from the old pros.

    When the students slipped into the march, they noticed the farmworkers were walking slowly, chanting and carrying signs, not just Mexican flags.

    Luis Delgado, an 18-year-old refrigeration student from Western Technical College, was taking mental notes.

    “This is the real thing right there,” said Delgado, a skateboard tucked under his arm. “They have flags, they chant, they have matachines. They are really well organized. They draw attention, which is what we want. They’re not running down the street being rowdy.”

    The march went from the plaza to the Sin Fronteras farmworker center and disbanded around 1 p.m. Some students remained Downtown but police reports indicated that more students had peacefully returned to school.

    Several schools throughout El Paso resorted to lockdowns as a way of preventing students from participating in the third straight day of protests.

    And although more than 1,500 students from schools throughout the county still walked out of class and marched through neighborhood streets and major throughways, the numbers were well short of those reported by authorities Thursday.

    The students who managed to walk out Friday said the crowds would have been larger if school officials had allowed everyone to participate.

    “I think we would have more people out here showing their pride and supporting immigrants if the schools didn’t lock them in there,” said Jacqueline Martinez, a Del Valle High School student. “I don’t think it’s right that they’re violating our rights.”

    A lockdown is a heightened level of security in which access into and out of the campus is forbidden. They are normally reserved for situations when students may be exposed to a predator or criminal around the area.

    “The safety of our students was the most important thing for us,” said Tony Baca, the assistant superintendent of instruction in the Socorro Independent School District. “All of our high schools went to a modified type of lockdown at specific times throughout the day.”

    El Paso Times reporters Louie Gilot, Chris Roberts, Gustavo Reveles-Acosta and Jake Rollow contributed to this story.


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    this doesn't tell much but it was at least in the paper.
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    The paper here will go overboard if a cop gets in trouble but they seem to think it is perfectly OK for illegal aliens to commit crimes. After all, they are the poor people coming here to look for a job-- and I would be willing to bet SOME of them work for the paper.
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