After immigration ruling at Foley school with Hispanic population, students cry, withdraw, no-show | al.com

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ziatroyano:

FOLEY, Alabama — Many of the 223 Hispanic students at Foley Elementary came to school Thursday crying and afraid, said Principal Bill Lawrence.

Nineteen of them withdrew, and another 39 were absent, Lawrence said, the day after a federal judge upheld much of Alabama’s strict new immigration law, which authorizes law enforcement to detain people suspected of not being U.S. citizens and requires schools to ask new enrollees for a copy of their birth certificate.

Even more of the students — who are U.S. citizens by birth, but their parents may not be — were expected to leave the state over the weekend, Lawrence said.

“It’s been a challenging day, an emotional day. My children have been in tears today. They’re afraid,” he said. “We have been in crisis-management mode, trying to help our children get over this.”

Foley Elementary has the area’s largest percentage of Hispanic students, about 20 percent of its student body.

(via Jack & Jill Politics)

Jesus christ. This makes me sick. 

(via custerdiedforyoursins)

Source: ziatroyano

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    WTF Alabama? This is awful.
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    Oh Alabama….
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    the world is just so fucked
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    This is so disgusting. Way to go, Obama. Let’s also have laws that prevent women, homosexuals, and anyone with a...
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    This is horrible. We need to stop this blatant racism…. :(
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    This is my state.. Disgusting.
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    ““When a stranger sojourns with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong. You shall treat the stranger who sojourns...
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    Lawmakers have no idea what it’s like to live in fear. The average white middle class people supporting this fucking law...
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    This hits me hard; all the unspoken fears of my first gen childhood are spilling everywhere (and my mom was a fully...
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    if you think about it for only a second, you’ll see that this kind of immigration reform is racist. how are these people...
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    I. Can’t. Even.
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