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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, why shouldn't schools be required to report undocumented students?   I'm troubled by the implication that being undocumented is perfectly A-OK.  It isn't.

That attitude is why a lot of people went for Trump.  I didn't, but I understand why people did.[/quote]

Because presumably their parents are the ones who broke the law, not the students. [/quote]

Really funny considering how many people have no problem reporting people they think come from MD or VA.  The kids aren't the ones breaking the law in that situation either.[/quote]

You are a fool. How dare you equate the two?

If a kid gets caught in a DC school residency cheating, he goes back to Maryland schools. His parents might have to pay for the cost of his DC education. They had the option of attending school in Maryland, but convenience or other reasons put them in a DC school.

If a kid whose parents are undocumented workers, or if the child is undocumented, they get sent back to another country they might not know, might not speak the language, and they lose everything they worked hard for here. Families can be torn apart with the U.S. Citizen child being left here while the parents are deported into a potentially dangerous situation. Americans love hiring cheap immigrant labor, but have no understanding of the consequences of deportation.

You should be ashamed of yourself. [/quote]

Oh shut up. If they want to be together, they can all go home together. To their own damned country. Not ours.[/quote]

If the children are born here, this is their country too. Stop posting your [b]racist[/b] agenda here on the DC boards. [/quote]

[b]anti-illegal-immigrant != racist[/b][/quote]

Yes your rant was racist. You are a racist. Own it. You are disgusting and I'm ashamed that you call yourself American.

Also people are not illegal, they are undocumented. You are not a legal person, you're a person. You have legal documentation.

You'd scream bloody murder if the government tried to separate your family. But if dark skinned, Spanish speaking people have their families torn apart, you are gleeful. That's racist and that makes you disgusting. You make me sick. [/quote]

PP, you are confusing me with someone else.  I posted only what is in bold above.

You should also know that I am brown and come from a Spanish-speaking family.  My ancestors all became US citizens in 1917.  They had been Spanish subjects until 1898.

Nevertheless, I am still opposed to illegal, i.e., against the law, immigration, and I am quite certain that my stance on illegal immigration is not motivated by bias against brown Spanish-speaking people.[/quote]

New poster here.   Lots of people in my family, including my children's grandparents and additional family members we are very close to would love to live in the United States. But, they don't. It's the law, and so they stay in their home country and we visit each other.   Undocumented people in the US having children and then expecting the right to stay here in this country because they did so illegally shouldn't be shocked by the application of well-known law.   Their kids may have the benefit of being US citizens, and that's the gift the parents received by breaking the law themselves  by entering the country illegally and then having children here. But that doesn't mean it is the gift that keeps on giving, with the parents who made the illegal choice to come here also getting the moon double of staying with their kids to preserve family togetherness.

You are right that there are no people who are illegal, and that is a terrible term. But there are a lot of undocumented people, and they have no right to remain in the United States, regardless of whether or not they chose to have children born here.  I have a family togetherness is such a priority, these parents, who knew what they were doing before having children here, could take their children back with them.   Or they could choose to have their children stay in the states with family members or others, or the kids could move temporarily until they are old enough to be on their own in the US.  It's the parents who came here undocumented, and decided to have kids here, put their kids in this situation. It's not our government, which is clear about its rules, and has been cleared that their pools may change in either direction over time.  [/quote]

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