Hispanic students vanish from Alabama schools
Sep 30, 4:05 PM (ET)
By JAY REEVES
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) – Hispanic students have started vanishing from Alabama public schools in the wake of a court ruling that upheld the state’s tough new law cracking down on illegal immigration.
Education officials say scores of immigrant families have withdrawn their children from classes or kept them home this week, afraid that sending the kids to school would draw attention from authorities.
There are no precise statewide numbers. But several districts with large immigrant enrollments – from small towns to large urban districts – reported a sudden exodus of children of Hispanic parents, some of whom told officials they would leave the state to avoid trouble with the law, which requires schools to check students’ immigration status.
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Amerikagulag says:
No tax-paying American has ANY room to complain about NATIVE AMERICANS moving north across borders of land that once belonged to them, when there are AT LEAST 3 countries halfway around the world invaded and occupied by ILLEGAL ALIEN AMERICANS.