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Undocumented, But Still Pursuing An Education
Mission Loc@l


By Lily Mihalik

As the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and Mayor Gavin Newsom argue back and forth about sanctuary policy, life for undocumented students goes on.

They pack their lunches, walk to school, wear letterman jackets, and wonder about their future. What they don't consider is going home.

Andrea, a well-spoken 16-year-old living in San Francisco on an expired tourist visa, isn't worried about immigration deporting her. "I'm not going to do something wrong against the country, I just want an education," she said.

While the fractious immigration debate happens in one world, Andrea lives in another.

She's one of an estimated 1.5 million undocumented youth living in the United States. A large portion of that number live in California, which at 2.7 million, has the largest population of undocumented, according to the Pew Hispanic Research Center.

Nearly half of all undocumented households consist of couples with their children, of which an estimated 73 percent are U.S. citizens by birth. "It's a growing trend," said Jefferey Passel, observing that more and more undocumented immigrants are having children here, instead of returning home to start a family. The remaining 27 percent of the children in undocumented households arrived after birth, and remain undocumented.

Like other cities around the country, San Francisco school officials never inquire about a student's legal status.

"We take in about 3,000 to 4,000 new students a year," said Darlene Lim, Executive Director of Educational Placement for the district.

Of these students, "it's impossible to say how many are undocumented, we just don’t track that," said Lim.

Students and parents alike are thankful for this leeway, it's one less thing to worry about. Rent checks often end up taking the priority as families try to make ends meet. Read more here.



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Students and parents alike are thankful for this leeway, it's one less thing to worry about. Rent checks often end up taking the priority as families try to make ends meet.

Somehow lost in this sickening sob story is the beggaring of the American taxpayers who are forced to pay for their education. What's wrong with this picture??

Immigration status should be checked and illegal aliens must be deported. Enough is enough!

Andrea, a well-spoken 16-year-old living in San Francisco on an expired tourist visa, isn't worried about immigration deporting her. "I'm not going to do something wrong against the country, I just want an education," she said.

You already ARE doing something wrong against our country!

GET OUT!

Originally Posted by vortex

As the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and Mayor Gavin Newsom argue back and forth about sanctuary policy, life for undocumented students goes on.

They pack their lunches, walk to school, wear letterman jackets, and wonder about their future. What they don't consider is going home.

Andrea, a well-spoken 16-year-old living in San Francisco on an expired tourist visa, isn't worried about immigration deporting her. "I'm not going to do something wrong against the country, I just want an education," she said.

We can certainly change the wording of this story slightly and still have the same meaning as written below...........

As the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and Mayor Gavin Newsom argue back and forth about sanctuary policy for drug dealers, life for yet to be arrested drug dealers goes on.

They pack their lunches, walk to school, wear letterman jackets, and wonder about their future. What they don't consider is not selling drugs.

Andrea, a well-spoken 16-year-old living in San Francisco, "I'm not going to do something wrong against the country, I just want an to keep selling drugs," she said.

What part of this don't these idiots get? A CRIME IS A CRIME, and A CRIMINAL IS A CRIMINAL. The have already done "something wrong against this country" just by being here ILLEGALLY.

These people have zero respect for this country or our laws and yet, these are the people this government wants to give amnesty to!

Unbelievable!

Once again we see that the majority of children here with their illegal alien parents were born here and their numbers continue to increase. Birthright citizenship has to end soon.