| Friday, March 31, 2006 |
| Flag up, flag down |
Students at an Arizona school pull down a Mexican flag that had been hoisted by another student caught up in the conflagration over proposed immigration reforms, and then burn it. The story:
“I know (they) shouldn’t have burned the Mexican flag,” said Jacob Stewart, a 16-year-old sophomore. “I heard it was raised above the American flag and that just irked me.”
He said the turbulence was tied to the newsmaking debates in the state Legislature and in Congress, where ideas from offering illegal immigrants a chance at citizenship to making them felons are being considered.
Freshman Chelsea Garcia, 15, and junior Brittany Ramage, 16, said the unrest had more to do with longrunning racial tensions at the school.
“(This week’s events) might have sparked a little more anger,” Ramage said. “But kids are not very deep about that stuff.”
The Hispanic student who brought the Mexican flag said he was responding to a racist remark directed at him Wednesday. The flagraising, flag-burning and shoving match that followed happened before most students arrived at school.
Six students — three Hispanic and three white — will be disciplined, principal Chad Wilson said. The right is more focused on the Mexican flag over upside-down U.S. flag issue, however, and apparently that incident in the American southwest has resulted in discipline...
And if you want to get a taste of just how ugly -- and racial -- this debate is, check here.
For a more sensible take from the anti-amnesty side, without the dueling flags and racist crap, here is the great Lou Dobbs. (BTW, flying the Mexican flag on U.S. soil strikes me as incredibly presumptuous and insulting to the U.S. as an involuntary host to millions of foreign citizens, as does the idea of "reconquista." But having lived in Colorado for most of my formative years, I'm familiar with the virulence of anti-Mexican racism. It's ugly, and its actually irrelevant what color and race illegal migrants are. The point is illegality and U.S. sovereignty. Can't we just leave it at that?)
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Tags: Immigration, Politics, border, Homeland Security, MEXICO, Illegal aliens, Illegal-Aliens, Illegal immigration |
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