N.Y. Schools Advised Against Asking About Immigration Status

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Wednesday, September 01, 2010 at 8:50 am

New York schools were strongly discouraged in a memo Monday from asking for information related to students’ immigration status during the enrollment process, a move to help protect the right of students to education in the state.

All students — regardless of immigration status — are allowed to attend school in New York if they can prove age and residency. But the American Civil Liberties Union found this summer that about 20 percent of the state’s public school districts may have barred or discouraged enrollment of immigrant students.

The memo comes at a time when “sanctuary policies” are increasingly under attack by opponents who argue they draw illegal immigrants to certain cities and states. Though not explicitly a sanctuary policy, New York’s education law allows illegal immigrants access to public goods and services. But as immigrants rights groups argue, policies that encourage illegal immigrants already in the country to access resources such as education, health services and law enforcement contribute to overall public safety.

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Comment posted September 1, 2010 @ 4:46 pm

…and on and on and on. We are bending over backwards to accommodate people who shouldn't be here. We are letting them get away with crimes, while further restricting Americans! We will remember these times when we were so intimidated by the word racism that we allowed them to sale our country down the river. These people (yeah, I said these/those people) would think twic about coming here if we didn't accommodate them. SAD… Good work ACULU


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Comment posted September 1, 2010 @ 7:08 pm

I live in California and the crimes against citizens are vast. Not only the rape, murder, stolen IDs, but also the crimes perpertraded by financial institutions and the government. Illegals are very much in the mix of the responsible for the housing crash that has affected our entire country and citizens. They were given (thanks to the good work of Acorn and like socialistic organizations and government agencies) houses they could not afford, nor did they have to provide the same level of identity information or downpayment security. As a result, things got bad and they just walked away without looking back. Now our government supports them even further on the backs of citizens. We have a president that hates America in my opinion. His goal is to spread the wealth around to anyone and everyone in need (need being the operative word and only based on his and his representatives and sympathizers opinion.) California is so broke and yes, only if you totally disregard basic math, the illegals have contributed to this red figure greatly. No longer do they likely feel the need to speak English, get their paperwork in order, oh no, they are now one of the most arrogant groups who are in Obamas entitlement group of people who thumb their noses at our laws. After all when you have the judicial system of the president of the US behind you why would you even try? There is no fear, there is no respect. I can't wait to vote the people who are so politically correct or fear being called racist (the no.1 name for new illegal babies and the first word they learn to call others) out of office. California is becoming a very undesireable place to live and raise children. Recently in Morgan Hill the Hispanic principal of a middle school sent home two citizen children because they had American flags on their T-shirts and the Hispanic kids found it “offensive.” This is abusrd and we need representatives who feel the same way.


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Comment posted September 2, 2010 @ 3:32 am

Let these illegal aliens go back to their own Country for their education. Why must they use our schools? Why do American taxpayers have to pay for this?

Illegal aliens are destroying this Country, and one would have to be almost blind not to see this. How much longer do we have to support these illegal aliens? How much longer do we have to school their illegal alien children? How much longer are we going to let them have our jobs? How much longer are we going to put up with all the crime, stolen identities, forged documents, fake green cards? How much longer are we going to allow these illegal aliens to send money out of this Country and bring our Country down? Oh, amnesty will correct all this. WRONG! Nothing will change except we wouldn't be able to call them illegal aliens any more. Let's get rid of these illegal aliens! Let's get them back to their own Country where they belong!

Maybe it is time for New York to get a State Illegal Immigration Law and drive the illegal aliens out! Enough is enough!


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