School Dist. Condemns Employee’s Retweet of Mom Whose Son Was Killed by Drunken, Crim
School Dist. Condemns Employee’s Retweet of Mom Whose Son Was Killed by Drunken, Criminal Illegal
By Craig Bannister | April 17, 2018 | 3:43 PM EDT
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Mary Ann Mendoza lost her son to a drunk-driving criminal illegal alien. (Screenshot)
An Oregon School District has denounced, and parents are demanding the firing of, a school official who retweeted a post by a woman whose son was killed by a drunken, criminal illegal alien.
The parents’ petition denounces Deputy Superintendent Steve Phillips for being “anti-undocumented alien,” The Oregonian reports:
“A petition demanding the Beaverton School District fire ‘anti-undocumented/immigrant and xenophobe Deputy Superintendent Steve Phillips’ gained steam Tuesday, the day after it was reported that Phillips retweeted an anti-undocumented immigrant tweet.”
Phillips’ “xenophobe” offense? He shared a March 25 post by Mary Ann Mendoza, whose Arizona police sergeant son was killed in a head-on crash by a drunk-driving, previously-deported Latino illegal alien. In her Tweet, Mendoza called illegal alien crime “one of the most PREVENTABLE causes of death in America:
“One of the biggest PREVENTABLE cause of death in America? An Avg of 12 Americans are killed daily by Illegal Aliens in our country. That’s over 4300 Americans a YEAR!! They are more dangerous than assault rifles and should be BANNED from our country #Marchtoendillegalkillings”
Superintendent Dan Grotting issued a statement condemning Phillips’ retweet of Mendoza’s pro-border security post as contrary to the school district’s “deeply held” pro-illegal immigrant “values”:
“The views expressed in a recent social media post and retweet by the Deputy Superintendent are not in keeping with the standards and values we hold as the Beaverton School District. The views are contrary to our deeply held values as expressed in our Strategic Plan and Pillars of Learning. We apologize for the hurt this has caused our staff, students and community.”
Mendoza’s son was killed in 2014 by 41-year-old Raul Corona-Silva, a convicted criminal who had lived in the U.S. illegally for more than 20 years, according to a report by The Phoenix New Times.
Following her son’s death, Mendoza helped found Advocates for Victims of Illegal Alien Crime (AVIAC). According AVIAC’s website, the organization “was started by several who have suffered the ultimate tragedy of losing a loved one to illegal alien crime.”
The group says its mission is to advocate for victims, as well as for deportation of all of those illegally living in the U.S.:
“As our name implies we want to be advocates for those who have been impacted by crimes committed by illegal aliens. The only successful accomplishment would be to stop illegal alien crime and that can only happen with the deportation of all people that are in the country illegally.”
Mendoza’s statistics appear to be based on data previously released by Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa).
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Beaverton school official resigns after immigration retweet
Associated Press Published 9:44 a.m. PT April 18, 2018
PORTLAND (AP) — A Beaverton School District deputy superintendent who retweeted a claim that immigrants in the country without legal permission "were more dangerous than assault rifles" and should be banned from the U.S. has resigned.
The Oregonian/OregonLive reports Steve Phillips' resignation came on Tuesday, a day after the school district apologized for his sharing the post and denounced the tweet. A petition was also started calling for Phillips to be fired.
Phillips was one of two district deputy superintendents. He was hired in 2016 after serving as the superintendent of the Malheur Education Services District. His annual salary is $171,148. He has issued no public statement on the matter.
A message left at number listed under Phillips' name was not immediately returned Tuesday.
In a statement Tuesday, Superintendent Don Grotting said the district is "committed to restoring trust in our community."
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