Hey, Migra… leave them kids alone!
Arizona Daily Star photo by Mamta Popat
Dozens of immigrant students took to Tucson streets with a peaceful message Tuesday.
“We’re students, not criminals,” said Erick Quintero, a 15-year-old sophomore at Catalina Magnet High School and one of the marchers.
About 100 bold young people marched some five miles from Midtown’s Catalina Magnet High School to police headquarters Downtown.
Reminiscent of the mass protests last year over immigration reform, the students Tuesday hoped to convey unified opposition to the recent deporting of a classmate and his family.
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In last week’s incident, immigration agents were called to Catalina High when a 17-year-old student was found with a small amount of pot. His parents were called, as they should be.
But when they couldn’t produce a driver’s license, they admitted they were undocumented. Should legal status matter in what is a rather routine occurrence at our high schools? No.
Yet police summoned federal immigration agents who apprehended the parents and child, then went to nearby Doolen Middle School to round up a younger sibling.
Human rights be damned.
(Ernesto Portillo Jr., Arizona Daily Star, 7 November 2007)
mexfiles.net 
Really only one thing can be said, “Shades of Nazi Germany!”
Another thing can be said. Enforcement of laws. These people are criminals. If you are illegal, you should be arrested and deported. If you do it again, you should be sent to prison, then deported. Mexico deals with illegals even harsher then we do. Does anyone complain?
Ain’t free speech grand?
Try protesting immigration policy in Mexico, as an American, and see how long it takes them to bust your ass – you’re shown the door in short order.
Sheesh!
Why can’t the Americans get their act together and either keep all the damn Mexicans out or just go ahead and let ’em all in?
This bull about ‘Mexicans doing the jobs Americans won’t do’ ignores the fact that some Yankees are just too damn lazy to get off their asses and work. Hey, why bother? Mom’s gone to the likker store to cash the welfare check.
So, Pepe goes to el otro lado to pick lettuce and guess what? His brother back home says…’no hay nada aqui. Me vale madre – Pepe’s gonna’ send more dinero on Friday’
Uncontrolled migration hurts BOTH COUNTRIES!
Ain’t free speech grand?
Yes, indeed. And we in the United States — regardless of our immigration status or nationality — are fortunate to have such a right. Good on those kids for learning their rights as residents of the “last, best hope of mankind”.
The rationales for immigration — and the possible effects — are rather irrelevant. What I see — and what Mr. Portillo saw — was punishing an entire family (including two minor children) for what is a very, very minor crime (and, according to many of us “likkered-up ‘murricans” probably shouldn’t be a crime at all.