Texas District Rejects Mexican Students

**redls1** · 10-08-2009, 01:55 PM

About time something like this is done.

(Oct. 8) -- A border community's school district has become the latest flashpoint in the nation's immigration debate.
The school district in Del Rio, Texas, about three and a half hours west of San Antonio, has cracked down on what officials say are Mexican students attending U.S. public schools there, according to news reports.

"We had several van loads (with Mexican license plates) pulling up at the schools and kids getting out. It's like 'C'mon, it's obvious what's going on,'" Kelt Cooper, superintendent of the San Felipe Del Rio Consolidated Independent School District, told The Associated Press.
He directed district officials to stake out a border bridge in early September and warn students they could face expulsion if they don't prove they live in the district — a move that's brought complaints from civil rights groups and support from anti-immigrant proponents.
"We have a law. We have a policy. We follow it," said Cooper, whose spent most of his life near the border and is uncomfortable with attempts to make him a cause celebre for either side of the immigration debate. "I'm just doing my job."
Civil rights organizers don't take issue with the district's policies, but do take issue with way officials choose to enforce them.
"Talk about trying to intimidate people and draw fear in the community," David Hinojosa told Newsweek. Hinojosa is the staff attorney for the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund. "One might send a letter to the parent asking them to contact the district office, but setting up some checkpoint on the other side of the border is outrageous."
To prove residency, parents must provide documents such as a utility bill in their name or a lease, CNN reported. But one parent told the news station that her husband was deported to Mexico, and she now lives with her sister-in-law. That means all the bills are in the other woman's name, Carla Gomez said.
Of 195 students targeted on the bridge last month, about 150 quickly proved residency, Cooper told the Del Rio News-Herald this week. Several students never showed up to class again. Of the others, he told the local newspaper, the district is still working to confirm residency.

**bluefields88** · 10-08-2009, 02:04 PM

If you don't live in the area, you can't go to the school. Pretty simple. Makes sense to me.

**310stanger** · 10-08-2009, 02:17 PM

Not to mention they are, whats the word..... Illlegal?

**raynor139** · 10-08-2009, 02:43 PM

Think if they just called imigration it would have solved the problem quicker not mention it would have been mildly entertaining.

**cant.b.caught.z28** · 10-08-2009, 02:51 PM

I don't live by any borders, nor to I pay much attention to the news, but does the immigration service even do shit anymore? Aren't the illegals getting just as much rights as a natural born citizen

**Smittro** · 10-08-2009, 02:54 PM

Originally Posted by cant.b.caught.z28

I don't live by any borders, nor to I pay much attention to the news, but does the immigration service even do shit anymore? Aren't the illegals getting just as much rights as a natural born citizen

Some get MORE rights! Such as felons getting deported only to return again and again!

**raynor139** · 10-08-2009, 03:09 PM

Also hospitals are required by law to help them and then the tax payer foots the bill.

**redls1** · 10-08-2009, 03:10 PM

Originally Posted by Smittro

Some get MORE rights! Such as felons getting deported only to return again and again!

Not to mention food stamps,money, training and more than a person that actually lives here.

**Wolfie** · 10-08-2009, 06:28 PM

They do the same thing here. You have to show you live in the district with a utility bill or a mortgage payment. The nearest boarder to me is 350mi away. Detroit, MI.

**TARZAN** · 10-08-2009, 06:29 PM

Easy fix.....let them pay their taxes at the door, then the kids get in.

-Will

**fbod91** · 10-08-2009, 07:03 PM

Lol

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**ztrouble** · 10-09-2009, 08:32 AM

If I were the principle of that school I would haev calmly got on the school intercom and started shouting LA MIGRA!!!!

**raynor139** · 10-09-2009, 10:48 AM

Originally Posted by fbod91

Lol

Old but always funny.

**Sarge** · 10-09-2009, 10:54 AM

Wake up folks. We must provide an education, free of charge to the illegals per the Supreme Court ruling. This is also how Obama (and he knows this) is getting health care for the illegals. The Supreme Court has already ruled all privileges must include all people...notice it did not say citizens....It is the socialist plan to bankrupt the free enterprise system and then enforce full blown Socialism. More importantly it is the bigger picture of One World Order.
One World Order is the 100 year old dream of the "elite liberal class". They know better than the masses. Their overall plan is to have a one world order...no borders....all Socialist and the "State" owns everything and everybody works for the state.
Bush was working towards it...Obama is just another sock puppet of the elite liberal class....

**Sarge** · 10-09-2009, 10:56 AM

Originally Posted by ztrouble

If I were the principle of that school I would haev calmly got on the school intercom and started shouting LA MIGRA!!!!

Not anymore...you yell "ICE"!!!! And watch them fuckers scatter....

**Neo** · 10-09-2009, 11:18 AM

Originally Posted by bluefields88

If you don't live in the area, you can't go to the school. Pretty simple. Makes sense to me.

I live in the Buffalo, NY area, and I coached a kid a few years ago who ran into trouble with this.

He lived in an apartment that was in the school district. Apparently (and I forget the whole story here) the landlord was a little bit racist (kids black) and evicted them for some bullshit reason or raised their rent to where it was impossible to pay it, and then called the district and blew the whistle in on him. The school gave him 48 hrs notice to prove residency or he was out. His utilities bill was a month old, so he was out.

He was living with his grandma at the time, and had been living with her for about two weeks when it happened. She's about 5 miles out of the district.

Pretty shitty thing to do to the kid