Will LA students tell their schools to kiss off, go protest and shut down another freeway this year?

Question

State and local education officials, citing safety concerns and potential financial penalties for schools, urged students Sunday to shun this week's May Day immigration reform marches and stay in class.

The Tuesday demonstrations include a downtown Los Angeles rally that local transportation and law enforcement officials anticipate could draw as many as 500,000 participants. Although that would be smaller than the roughly 650,000 who showed up at last year's May Day march, it would be the area's biggest immigration rally this year. And it threatens traffic tie-ups that have prompted officials to urge the public to avoid downtown.

State Supt. of Public Instruction Jack O'Connell, who appeared at a news conference with Los Angeles schools Supt. David Brewer and other local officials, said it was more important for students to be in class than to demonstrate. He urged educators to consider the day "a teachable moment" to address immigration and related issues.

He urged educators to consider the day "a teachable moment" to address immigration and related issues. "I'm a strong believer in free speech … but not at the expense of educational opportunity," he said.

Schools officials also emphasized that widespread absences could raise safety issues for students who are away from campus and cause districts to lose some state funding.

But Los Angeles school officials, apparently resigned to the fact that some students will ditch class anyway, plan to provide bus service for students hoping to return to class after attending the downtown rally.

Last year, thousands of students showed up in the crowds. For students in sixth through 12th grades in the Los Angeles Unified School District, administrators reported an absentee rate of 27%, versus the usual 10%.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-students30apr30,1,5011895.story

I think they will................

Answer 1

I think that any student that ditches school for any reason (other then senior cut out day) should be aptly punished based on that students past history. And the schools should NOT spend extra tax payers money to provide for extra transportation for the students that ditch. It's like saying it's OK to be bad. That's a terrible example to set for any child.

Well, driving to work on Long Island will be a little easier tomorrow.

Answer 2

Too bad we can't get these same students as concerned about sending their numbers to Iraq as they are about this matter. I live down town L.A. And, although I do think this is a great learning opportunity for students to learn about their civil rights and to protest, I really dread tomorrow. It's going to be very noisy and crazy where I live. That part I don't look forward to.

Answer 3

Most are illegal aliens. California spends over $7 billion a year educating illegal aliens.

California now has some of the lowest test scores in the nation. That was not the case before the massive influx of illegal aliens.

Answer 4

Cinco de Mayo---I say let's use their own stupid holiday against them and have ICE round everyone up. Should be easy pickin's of illegals at the festivities.

You want to be an illegal lover racist..then why is the main group pushing for illegals called "La Raza", which stands for "The Race?" Whose zooming who here? You call you pro-illegal, pro-mexican group "The Race"??!! Talk about racist...

Answer 5

I think all students who cut class - costing us tax payers monies for their education and their not taking advantage of it - should have their parents and themselves checked for being legal citizen - if not deport them - that way they can learn what true citizenship is worth.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

How To Report Illegal Aliens -


With all this hoopla about homeland security, why isn’t there a “Terrorism Information and Prevention System” that Americans can really use? Why not start reporting illegal aliens and criminal alien residents?

Illegal aliens are subject to deportation at any time. Their very presence violates federal law.

Lawful permanent resident aliens – that is, anyone with a “green card”– also can become deportable if they are convicted of certain crimes. These criminal alien residents can lose their permanent resident status and be deported right along with the illegal aliens and non-immigrant visa overstayers – if the proper authorities only knew about them.

The new Department of Homeland Security is the proper authority to whom to report the presence of


illegal aliens,


non-immigrant visa violators, and


green card holders who have been convicted of crimes.

The DHS has background information on reporting “suspected illegal aliens or suspected illegal immigration activity.” For now, this link sends you right back to the former Immigration and Naturalization Service field offices, now part of the DHS’ service-oriented Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services - BCIS.

Though it looks like BCIS took over the INS web site, all the law enforcement agents are still at the former INS field offices anyhow, since no new facilities sprang up overnight when the INS left the Department of Justice on March 1, 2003.

The law enforcement components of the former INS are now called the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement – BICE (field offices) and the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection – BCPS (field offices).

To report an illegal alien, look up the nearest existing field office and ask for the (BICE) Investigations Division or the "Enforcement Office." If you cannot speak with a Special Agent from the Investigations Division, ask to speak to a Deportation Officer from the Detention and Removal unit. Make a report over the phone or go in person.

You are performing a vital public service by doing this. Officers in these divisions are obligated by law to make a written record of your report.

The groups U.S Border Control and illegalalien.net also list ex-INS field office contact numbers.

If you live in a border area – roughly, within 50 miles of the border - you have the better option of reporting the presence of illegal aliens to the nearest BCBP or Border Patrol field office. You can either call or go in person.

If there is no Border Patrol station listed nearby, contact the nearest Sector Office to find out if there is a local sub-station that is not listed on the web site.

Like the former INS, the Department of Homeland Security still doesn’t have a way to report illegal aliens over the internet. But the Federal Bureau of Investigation does!

Thanks to a recent delegation of authority by Attorney General John Ashcroft to the FBI Director, all Special Agents of the FBI now have the power to enforce immigration law.

So send your internet tips to the FBI on https://tips.fbi.gov/ or contact them the old-fashioned way, by calling or writing one of the FBI field offices.

(The DHS has a guide for how to “report a missing person suspected of falling victim to dangers along the border.” This public service is part of the “border safety initiative” of its alien-friendly BCIS - proving that the BCIS already is living up to its legacy as the reincarnation of all the INS “customer service” bureaus.)

Illegal aliens and criminal alien residents might be up to some type of fraud against the Social Security system too. For them, false documents are a way of life. The Office of Inspector General of the Social Security Administration operates a fraud hotline for reporting misuse of social security cards and false statements on claims – whether by employers or employees.

Prosecuting Social Security fraud has been used successfully to tie-up terrorist suspects, even if they are not illegal aliens. Report criminal violators to the FBI for prosecution by the U.S. Attorney.

Though it has been accused of giving cover to illegal aliens through tax ID numbers, the Internal Revenue Service also accepts citizen reports on general tax fraud including “earned income tax credit” abuse. The IRS’ criminal investigation division handles employment tax fraud reports.

The Department of Health and Human Services maintains a hotline for reporting Medicare or Medicaid fraud, child non-support, AFDC fraud, and abuse of related programs.

Also, believe it or not, all male illegal aliens (as well as male permanent resident aliens, ages 18 through 25) must register with the Selective Service System. If they do not register, they can be prosecuted for a felony and fined up to $250,000 and/or be put in jail for up to five years. They also may not then be eligible for U.S. citizenship.

And there are state penalties for failing to register. Selective Service registration is conveniently available in Spanish. Report draft registration violators to the FBI for prosecution by the U.S. Attorney.

What will the DHS actually do when you call?

It will take the information down, as it is legally obligated to do....and quite probably not much else.

It may get interested in a criminal alien, an alien that’s the subject of some other type of investigation - for example an Arab terrorist, an alien smuggler - or an alien who has been deported before.

Non-criminal aliens might be sent a letter by the Deportation and Removal section, saying, in effect, "Dear Mr. Alien, you have been already ordered removed by an immigration judge, or we know you have overstayed your status, please come in to the office to be deported, bring one bag." (These are known as “run letters,” for obvious reasons.) But even this doesn’t always happen.

But none of this should make any difference to VDARE.COM readers. Your report will be on record. The government will know about it – and will know we know it knows about it.

The Chinese say a journey of a thousand miles must start with one step. Americans can start regaining control of their borders - and of their nation’s destiny – with one phone call.

Answer 8

Americans don't seem to be as serious about their concerns to make this kind of effort.