At one high school in Maryland, fears of deportation are playing out in the classroom.
In Prince George's County, a suburb of Washington, D.C., about 70 percent of the students at High Point High School are Latino. It's a student population that's prompted the school's principal, Sandra Jimenez, to term it "Central American Ellis Island."
Principal Jimenez says the fear of deportation raids is making many immigrant students scared to come to school, despite assurances from government officials that there are no raids happening at schools.
It's a concern that was echoed in a statement by Dr. Kevin Maxwell, CEO of Prince George's County Public Schools in an open letter to DHS.
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This certainly helps make the case for the theory of using self-deportation to clean up this problem later.
ReplyDeleteHopefully (I pray) after this next election WE CITIZENS will get OUR country back !!!
ReplyDeleteWorkers at Purdue are terrified also.
ReplyDeleteI thought O'Malley assured us that illegal imagration wasn't costing us anything!
ReplyDeleteI didn't have money for a family vacation this year, but at least I have the (Democratic) pleasure of helping to pay for a school of dreamers!!!
Unfortunately once they turn 18 they will vote in another set of Democrats and our kids will have to pay for the next round of not costing us anything.
ReplyDeleteOf course some state money is tied directly to attendance so absences are costly to the budget.