Reports of Hispanic Students Vanishing From Alabama Schools After Immigration Ruling
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Hispanic students have started vanishing from Alabama public schools in the wake of a court ruling that upheld the state's tough new law cracking down on illegal immigration.
Education officials say scores of immigrant families have withdrawn their children from classes or kept them home this week, afraid that sending the kids to school would draw attention from authorities.
There are no precise statewide numbers. But several districts with large immigrant enrollments -- from small towns to large urban districts -- reported a sudden exodus of children of Hispanic parents, some of whom told officials they planned to leave the state to avoid trouble with the law, which requires schools to check students' immigration status.
It will be interesting to see where the illegals migrate to. What are the nearest states that are known to offer an open harbor to illegals? I'd be interested to find out what the impacts to the welfare and food stamp programs will be. It wouldn't be to hard to figure out where they moved to once you start looking at less welfare and food stamp money going to Alabama and more going to another state.
I guess you could try to spin it a different way and hope that the illegals would go back where they came from because of the economy but welfare and food stamps in the US beats the hell out of what most natives of Mexico, Ecuador, Guatemala, and Costa Rica can make in their own countries. No wonder they don't want to leave! It's not like ICE is really doing a good job of deporting them and it's really easy to sneak back in so why not continue to take the handouts?
I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you.
"Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the Government take care of him; better take a closer look at the American Indian." - Henry Ford
Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges; When the Republic is at its most corrupt the laws are most numerous. - Publius Cornelius Tacitus
In case you needed further proof of the American education system’s failings, especially in poor and minority communities, consider the latest crime to spread across the country: educational theft. That’s the charge that has landed several parents, such as Ohio’s Kelley Williams-Bolar, in jail this year.
An African-American mother of two, Ms. Williams-Bolar last year used her father’s address to enroll her two daughters in a better public school outside of their neighborhood. After spending nine days behind bars charged with grand theft, the single mother was convicted of two felony counts. Not only did this stain her spotless record, but it threatened her ability to earn the teacher’s license she had been working on.
