Posted on 11/06/2007 1:32:02 PM PST by radar101
About a hundred students demonstrated outside their Tucson high school, then marched five miles downtown to protest against the removal to Mexico of a classmate and his family.
School officials searched the backpack of a 17-year-old Catalina High School freshman who was incoherent last week, and say they found suspected marijuana and called police.
When the boy's parents arrived, police asked to see their drivers' licenses.
The parents acknowledged living in the United States illegally with their two sons, including a sixth-grader.
Police notified the Border Patrol, who took the parents and the sons into custody. The mother and boys were voluntarily returned to Mexico and the father was held for deportation proceedings.
how many protesters were arrested for truancy?
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Should read when their drug supplier got busted
5 will get you 10 that the 100 “protestors” and/or their parents were also illegals.
Anybody have a notion of how many students attend this high school.
I am curious as to how many of these protesting students would have been illegals themselves.
You do know that’s a “classic” don’t you?! Mind if I start it winding it’s way around the world in an email?
Did they run out of worthwhile causes and have a mandatory protest requirement they had to fulfill for class? Or were they simply allowed to get out of class to join the protest?
This kid probably does have friends in school that will miss him even though he is apparently an idiot. However, they can always go visit him in Mexico.
Ya just damn well know that if you followed every one of these hundred kids home, mommy and daddy would either be illegals or liberals....
Catalina High School
Grades 9-12
Public school
1555 students
It’s a fairly large school in the center of Tucson.
It is so nice to be OUT of Tucson, a liberal bastion in an otherwise beautiful part of the country.
God Bless Texas
“Good old high school student, “let’s ditch class and call it a protest”, heck if they play it right they might even get class credit. I bet most of the “protesters” never even met the kid.”
I doubt if these kids thought this up on their own. I’d bet money one of their “activist” teachers put this idea in their heads.
A solution to all the problems...you go back to Mexico and we'll drop all drug charges against your son...so that when he comes back, he won't have any strikes against him.
Meanwhile...daddy stays here....gets a court date for deportation hearings...is released on his own recognizance...goes back to work and sends money back to Mexico...where it helps THEIR economy instead of ours.
Yep...that'll work just fine.
"Hey look Americans...we're doing something. Remember us, November 8th." /s
In the meantime, the picture painted by the media is.... those mean and crazy Republicans demonstrate once again how much they hate Hispanics. The Democrats are our friends.
And that's a damned shame, IMO.
He learned a valuable life lesson:
DON'T BOGART.
walked 5 miles in protest. probably the most exercise they have done since the school year started or since they illegally crossed the border.
Or an activist parent, who’s not going to ditch class if mom says you should ditch class... and get your friends to join you even.
I think you underestimate the power of friendship and causes at such an age.
If it had happened to one of my friends back when I was in high school, we'd had the entire student body of 1200 strong marching. The Franciscans teachers would have given it their blessing. That was back in the early sixties.
“Good old high school student, “let’s ditch class and call it a protest.”
My thought exactly. I’ve seen it happen many times. Seldom does a good student participate in such as this. Heck, many of them will do anything to get out of class, even give blood at the bloodmobile.
“1555 students”
Make that 1554 and counting.
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