Thread: Family deported after boy's arrest at school

Here is another example that if you are in this country illegally you are subject to being deported at a moments notice.

Let them be afraid..............very afraid.

The word politics comes from the Greek words
Poli = many
tics = bloodsucking leeches

Bet his parents are pissed

UPDATE

Published: 11.06.2007

Catalina High Magnet School students protesting deportation (Updated 11:30 a.m.)By Dale Quinn and George B. Sánchez
ARIZONA DAILY STAR

About 100 students from Catalina High Magnet School were gathered in front of Tucson Police Department headquarters Monday protesting the he deportation of a student and his family last week.
Meanwhile Tucson Unified School District officials have requested a meeting with police to talk about the incident and the department's procedures.
Students at the protest Monday first marched to the federal courthouse then meandered to police headquarters, 270 S. Stone Ave., about 10:30 a.m.
They were met there later that morning by TUSD Superintendent Roger Pfeuffer. He spoke briefly to some of the students before going in to headquarters to talk to police officials. He told the students that school should not be a place to enforce immigration laws, but added that the deportation incident stemmed from the student having drugs on campus.
The student and his family were deported after school officials found marijuana in his backpack and called Tucson police, who then notified the Border Patrol after learning the family was not here legally.
The incident caused concern among students, school officials and immigrant-rights advocates, but Tucson police officials say their officer acted appropriately in calling Border Patrol agents to the school.
District officials are waiting to hear back from Tucson police about the meeting, said Chyrl Hill Lander, a TUSD spokeswoman. She said they hope to come up with a plan to avoid this situation in the future and hope to reach an “agreeableâ€

They'll go too easy on these kids for skipping school. Again there should be no tollerance for this behavior. I hope they make a few arrests in front of Police headquarters while they're at it.

Yes, I'm wondering just what these kids were doing out of school at 10:30 on a school day?

Think the school may be aiding and abetting?

When I was in school there's no way the school officials would accept this kind of behavior.

I have always said that we can get rid of a lot of illegals by posting ICE in every campus just for one day. In order to pick up your kid, you have to show ID. Those who can't are obviously illegal. Wham! Instant FAMILY deportation. We can get MILLIONS this way. Just one day's work.

A M E N !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Published: 11.06.2007

High school students protest classmate's deportation
By Dale Quinn and George B. SÃ¥nchez
ARIZONA DAILY STAR

The Tucson Police Department is scrutinizing the way it deals with immigration laws at TUSD schools after about 100 Catalina Magnet High School students left school and marched downtown Tuesday morning protesting the deportation of a student and his family last week.
Around noon, Assistant Chief Roberto Villaseñor spoke to about 30 students who continued to linger in front of the Police Department headquarters at 270 S. Stone Ave. to explain why a police officer notified Border Patrol after school officials found marijuana in a boy’s backpack.
Superintendent Roger Pfeuffer also addressed the students, and stressed that the Catalina student and his family were deported after a sequence of events that began after officials learned he had an illegal drug on campus.
[b]“We don’t want immigration laws enforced on our school campuses,â€

Published: 11.07.2007
TPD will no longer call Border Patrol to schools, churches
MARY BUSTAMANTE and DAVID L. TEIBEL news@tucsoncitizen.com

The Tucson Police Department will no longer call the Border Patrol to schools or churches when officers determine that suspects in their investigations are illegal immigrants.
The opinion was prompted by a protest and the deportation to Mexico of a man and the voluntary return with him of his wife and two sons.
The family had told police they had been here illegally for six years.
The incident occurred after police were called to TUSD's Catalina High Magnet School Nov. 1 because one of the sons in the family allegedly was found in possession of marijuana there.
School officials said the 17-year-old also appeared to be under the influence of a narcotic substance.
On Tuesday morning, more than 100 students, mostly from Catalina, gathered outside Tucson Police Department headquarters, 270 S. Stone Ave., to protest the removal of the boy and his family by U.S. Border Patrol.
Tucson Police called Border Patrol officials after they had been told by the family that is had been in the country illegally, police officials said.
But the students, some carrying signs including "Migra out of our schools," said they should not be afraid they are going to be yanked from their classrooms by immigration police.
In Arizona, all public school districts are forbidden by law to deny an education to any school-age child living here, Tucson Unified School District officials said.
The district's feeling on the issue was clear.
"We don't want immigration laws enforced on our campuses," said TUSD Superintendent Roger Pfeuffer.
He, deputy superintendent Patti Lopez and police officials including Assistant Tucson Police Chief Roberto Villaseñor, met as the protesters waited in a orderly fashion outside the station.
Pfeuffer said Villaseñor came out to speak with students after their meeting and pointed out the Border Patrol never would have been called by police if police hadn't been called to the school for criminal activity.
Villaseñor said police have to ask the question of citizenship when they are taking someone into custody.
But community activist Isabel Garcia questioned that action. And, she added, "you should not have called Border Patrol onto campus."
Villaseñor said Tuesday afternoon that TPD would no longer call the Border Patrol to churches or schools, although it will cooperate with Border Patrol.
The removal of the family prompted rumors of high school immigration raids, hotly denied by police and TUSD authorities.
The peaceful demonstration started about 10:15 a.m. and lasted about two hours.
"We should be safe in school," said Ener Lopez, 14, a ninth-grader at Catalina High, 3645 E. Pima St.
Araceli Sanchez, also 14 and a ninth-grader at the school, conceded the arrested 17-year-old student and his family were in the United States illegally, "but, he was just another student."
"We think that shouldn't be allowed, because school is where we're supposed to be safe," said Mario Portillo, 16, a Catalina 11th-grader whom students identified as one of the protest organizers.
"No matter if you're an illegal alien, you have the right to an education," Portillo said.
"How can we learn if we've scared the border patrol is going to come for us," said senior Jorge Guerrero, 18.
Pfeuffer told students at the demonstration that although "the school's got to be a safe place. . . . Obviously, we can't condone illegal activity."
Villaseñor concurred. "We can't lose sight of the fact that police were there because there was criminal activity going on," he said.
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