Thread: Violent Anchor Baby protesters get arrested

More Students Arrested As Immigration Protests Continue
Oceanside Unified School District Closes Middle, High Schools

SAN DIEGO -- Dozens of teenage students were arrested in San Diego Thursday while more than 100 youths gathered on campuses threatening a walkout to decry proposed immigration reforms, school officials said.

As of 9:45 a.m., between 30 and 40 students had been arrested on suspicion of loitering, obstructing and delaying more arrests, said Music McCall, of the San Diego Unified School District, adding that not all of the students arrested were from SDUSD schools.

The students were arrested in Chicano Park in Barrio Logan by officers from the school district and the San Diego Police Department, she said.

The students detained for loitering will be processed by police and released to their parents. The others will be taken to juvenile hall, she said.

More than 100 students walked out of classrooms and gathered on campus at Memorial Academy Thursday threatening to march off school grounds, a school official said. The school was not on lockdown, she added.

San Diego police officers were summoned to the junior high school on Logan Avenue to monitor the crowd, which consisted of 300 to 400 students, said Gary Hassen, of the SDPD.

There were no other reports of students walking off school campuses in San Diego Thursday, McCall said.

School officials closed middle and high schools in Oceanside Thursday and Friday following outbreaks of violence during protests in North County Wednesday, said Laura Chalkley, of the Oceanside Unified School District.

The schools will reopen Monday, Chalkley said.

"Student safety is my primary concern," Superintendent Ken Noonan said Wednesday.

Three Oceanside youths were booked Wednesday on suspicion of felony assault for allegedly throwing chunks of concrete at officers, said Oceanside police Sgt. Leonard Mata.

About 250 Oceanside High School students gathered at the west end of the campus with the intention to leave school grounds even though the school was locked down, Mata said.

The group tried to force open a metal fence and began throwing objects at police when the authorities ordered them to step back, Mata said.

Officers shot pepper spray into the crowd after being hit with various objects. The students who allegedly threw the concrete were taken to juvenile hall, Mata said.

About 150 Mar Vista High School students were arrested on Wednesday at South Bay Community Park in Imperial Beach on suspicion of loitering, authorities said.

Elsewhere, about 1,200 youths Wednesday from San Diego city schools protested the proposed legislation, McCall said.

Similar protests in San Diego took place Monday and Tuesday ending in Chicano Park in Barrio Logan. Protests have been held in at least seven other cities within the county, authorities said.

The protests, which have flared throughout Southern California, target a bill passed by the House of Representatives in December and now being considered in the Senate.

The law would require employers to verify Social Security numbers with the Department of Homeland Security, increase penalities for immigrant smuggling and stiffen punishments for undocumented immigrants who reenter the United States after having been removed.

But the U.S. Senate's Judiciary Committee softened the bill Monday by voting to create a path for some of the nation's estimated 12 million illegal immigrants to become citizens without first leaving the country.

Where does it say they are anchor babies?

Many of the high school students here are out and out illegal aliens. Their younger siblings are the anchor babies.

Unfortunately too many are anchor babies, as well as illegals. On the TV news broadcast they interviewed some of the students and they said that they were born here and are protesting for their parents and relatives RIGHT to stay in the U.S.

While they were interviewing there, did the others run around them flashing gang signs like they did here?

I am afraid to go to work tomorrow. I normally work at elementary schools but there are high schools all over town too and they are tying up traffic like crazy.

Unlike the scene in Charlotte, NC, there are cops everywhere here, though. I was freaking out over all the sirens this afternoon. When they put on all the demonstrators tonight I realized what the sirens were about. I don't think even one of those kids got arrested though. Not even the ones who threw some sort of sticky mess all over a park ranger at the Chamizal.

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Three Oceanside youths were booked Wednesday on suspicion of felony assault for allegedly throwing chunks of concrete at officers, said Oceanside police Sgt. Leonard Mata.

Hey Bush, is this what you mean by family values?

I guess they are planning to send us one bit of news at a time. This morning, it came out on the local news that some of the high school kids threw rocks at the cops. Last time they did that, it was the COPS that got arrested!

Surely it is time for at least rubber bullets or mace or something. Fire hoses? This is getting way out of hand!

And today, word has it that some other groups, American groups, plan to start challenging the illegals in their protests.