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[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 [b]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.[/b] Americans love hiring cheap immigrant labor, but have no understanding of the consequences of deportation.

You should be ashamed of yourself. [/quote]

I am not an immigration hawk, however you may be overstating this in bold in the DC area, and especially regarding children in DC schools.

If you look at the children of Central American immigrants in DC schools (both undocumented and legal), I think you're going to find that most are recent arrivals and few of the children were born in the US. Most speak Spanish at home, many of the children are officially ELL in the school system, and many families do keep ties with the home country.

This is NOT to say that they want to return, or that they should be forced to return. But I don't believe that DC has a lot of these "dreamers" you read about in the news, the ones who are now 27 years old and were brought here illegally when they were age 3. I think those are mostly of Mexican descent, living in the South and SW.

In DC it is mostly immigrants who arrived within the last few years, plus the older wave that came during the Central American civil wars many decades ago. Most of the latter got refugee status or benefited from the Reagan amnesty.

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My child goes to a school with a very high population of Latinos. I don't know how many of them are undocumented or how many of their parents are. [b]My child is in first grade, and her friends were mostly born here.[/b] They do speak Spanish at home and are officially ELL in the school system and keep ties to their home countries, but it's their parents' home countries, not theirs.

My concern about having DCPS reporting undocumented families to ICE is that discourages families concerned about ICE notice (either because they are undocumented or someone in their community is, etc.) from sending their kids to school at all. I would prefer that the children in my neighborhood attend school, regardless of their parents' immigration status.

The crazy poster above equating undocumented immigrants with pedophiles is absolutely crossing a line. Get a grip, PP. [/quote]

How do you know that? Because the kid told you or are you just assuming? The parents aren't going to tell you if the child wasn't born here and they are certainly going to tell their child they were born here even if they were not to avoid any suspicion.[/quote]

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