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.
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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!