What Today's Students Learn in High School?.
When I was in High School, Thomas Green, my best friend who was a student working for the school newspaper as an opinion editor had his article calling for the arrest of illegal immigrants, and his first amendment rights, squelched, according to a lawsuit filed in the Marion County Superior Court in California. The lawsuit claims the district illegally censored the student's articles and subjected him to public reprimand for that article, and another article arguing against affirmative action. The lawsuit also alleges that he became the target of threats and harassment.
Thomas wrote that immigrants who cannot go through the hassle of becoming a citizen should "stay out of the country." He also wrote that suspected illegal immigrants should be treated like suspected criminals. "If a person looks suspicious then just stop them and ask a few questions, and if they answer, 'Que?' detain them." The day after the article was published in the paper, a number of students and parents marched on marched onto campus to protest it. According to the lawsuit, school officials confiscated remaining issues of the newspaper. The district superintendent and the principal, who had previously cleared the editorial for publication, sent a letter to parents saying the article should never have been printed.
There is a reason they are called "illegal immigrants" and that reason is because they entered the country illegally. Maybe the article made some bad generalizations of immigrants and Hispanics as a whole, but the basis of the writer's argument is sound. Illegal immigrants should be arrested. If they cannot go through the "hassle" of filling out the proper forms and going through the proper channels, they should stay out of this country. They've proven a willingness to skirt rules getting into the country. Why would they not skirt other rules and break other laws once they are across the border? It does not matter how many people are "illegal immigrants", it is still not okay.
