Deportation Threat Spin-off

An Associated Press article in the Corpus Christi Caller today tells the story of immigrant parents taking their children out of Irving, Texas schools over fears that they will be deported. There is concern by the Irving School District that those parents will not enroll their children anywhere now because of fear. Irving police have turned over 1600 people to immigration officials since the crack-down on immigrants started last year.

It's hard for me to comprehend such a blatant disregard for immigrant's efforts to afford their children opportunity for education. These are parents who should be offered a fast-track to citizenship even if they are here illegally. These are parents who have already shown that they can be assimilated into communities and can contribute to our culture.

Is this same scenario being repeated all over the country? If so,our global reputation for being a nation of compassion that shows the highest respect for human dignity and human rights is being eroded to a dangerous degree.   

Comments

[Beth Barham]

I heard about this and heard the debates about it locally (I live in Dallas) and agree, the children do not need to be turned away from an education when their parents made the decision to come over here illegally. The first generation immagrants seem to be the hardest working people. This issue is so confusing since there are so many aspects to each individual situation.