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Highland Park High School Tournament over Arizona immigration law

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Now the pro-illegals liars are now trying to keep kids from a Tournament because they do not like the fact Arizona does not tolerate illegal immigration.

Highland Park High School Cancels Trip To Arizona Tournament Over Immigration Law (POLL)
Suburban Highland Park High School is coming off its best season for girls basketball in 26 years. But a planned trip to Arizona for a tournament next season has been canceled by the school due to that state's controversial new immigration law.

School officials painted the decision as a matter of safety. The Chicago Tribune spoke with District 113 Assistant Superintendent Suzan Hebson about the decision:

"We would want to ensure that all of our students had the opportunity to be included and be safe and be able to enjoy the experience," Hebson said of the tournament, which will be played in December. "We wouldn't necessarily be able to guarantee that."

Asked if there are undocumented players on the team, or if anyone associated with the team is in the country illegally, Hebson said she did not know.

The school draws students from Highland Park as well as what WLS describes as "the heavily Hispanic suburb of Highwood." Fifteen percent of the school's population is Hispanic.

But parents complain that the school is unwisely making political hay of a sporting event that is entirely unrelated.
 
All over a law that was already in place to begin with. Wow.

Every Republican in the country should run on this issue. LOL
 
I think the Left's gambit on this one is gonna blow up in their face.
 
Now the pro-illegals liars are now trying to keep kids from a Tournament because they do not like the fact Arizona does not tolerate illegal immigration.

Highland Park High School Cancels Trip To Arizona Tournament Over Immigration Law (POLL)
Suburban Highland Park High School is coming off its best season for girls basketball in 26 years. But a planned trip to Arizona for a tournament next season has been canceled by the school due to that state's controversial new immigration law.

School officials painted the decision as a matter of safety. The Chicago Tribune spoke with District 113 Assistant Superintendent Suzan Hebson about the decision:

"We would want to ensure that all of our students had the opportunity to be included and be safe and be able to enjoy the experience," Hebson said of the tournament, which will be played in December. "We wouldn't necessarily be able to guarantee that."

Asked if there are undocumented players on the team, or if anyone associated with the team is in the country illegally, Hebson said she did not know.

The school draws students from Highland Park as well as what WLS describes as "the heavily Hispanic suburb of Highwood." Fifteen percent of the school's population is Hispanic.

But parents complain that the school is unwisely making political hay of a sporting event that is entirely unrelated.

Mixing politics with education.

You people want your kids in these places. :doh
 
Mixing politics with education.

You people want your kids in these places. :doh

I think public schools should be religious and politically neutral as possible.
 
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I'm pro-illegal. And I'm from Illinois.

Love the decision. Good on 'em.

Here's the thing, though. Because I'm an actual small government conservative I support Arizona's right to pass whatever laws/rules they deem fit. I also support areas on Illinois making the choice to boycott (more directly as well).

How many of the "conservatives" here are actually willing to take the same stance about a school in a state that has jack **** to do with them?
 
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I'm pro-illegal. And I'm from Illinois.

Love the decision. Good on 'em.

Here's the thing, though. Because I'm an actual small government conservative I support Arizona's right to pass whatever laws/rules they deem fit. I also support areas on Illinois making the choice to boycott (more directly as well).

How many of the "conservatives" here are actually willing to take the same stance about a school in a state that has jack **** to do with them?

How can you be pro illegal and claim to be for small government?

And you do realize that the decision wasn't left to a vote, it was made by one person right?
 
How can you be pro illegal and claim to be for small government?

See Thomas Jefferson's words form the Kentucky Resolutions of 1798.

That alien friends are under the jurisdiction and protection of the laws of the State wherein they are: that no power over them has been delegated to the United States, nor prohibited to the individual States, distinct from their power over citizens. And it being true as a general principle, and one of the amendments to the Constitution having also declared, that “the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people," the act of the Congress of the United States, passed on the — day of July, 1798, intituled “An Act concerning aliens,” which assumes powers over alien friends, not delegated by the Constitution, is not law, but is altogether void, and of no force.

The only thing related to immigrants that the Federal government was granted authority over was a national standard for naturalization (i.e. citizenship)

Only the states have the authority to dictate who may or may not be a resident of that state when it comes down to non-citizens (all citizens have an equal right to residency from the equal protections clause)

It was judicial activism in 1870's (during the Chinese immigration wave) that usurped said authority from the states in the fist place.
 
I'm pro-illegal. And I'm from Illinois.

Love the decision. Good on 'em.

Here's the thing, though. Because I'm an actual small government conservative I support Arizona's right to pass whatever laws/rules they deem fit. I also support areas on Illinois making the choice to boycott (more directly as well).

How many of the "conservatives" here are actually willing to take the same stance about a school in a state that has jack **** to do with them?

So you're for breaking the law. Got it.

You are for people being paid cheap wages because they are "illegal", you support the theft of SS numbers so illegals can "work".

You outta move down south where the problem isn't some forum discussion but a daily fact of life. Perhaps you'd change your tune, but I doubt it.
 
So you're for breaking the law. Got it.

I'm 100% in favor of breaking federal laws that are not within the purview of federal authority, yes.

You are for people being paid cheap wages because they are "illegal", you support the theft of SS numbers so illegals can "work".

I'm for states being able to decide their own residency and I would like to see federal laws that are not constitutional abolished. If the federal law is outside the realm of federal authority, it should be broken.

I prefer it if they use fake SS numbers instead of stolen ones.

You outta move down south where the problem isn't some forum discussion but a daily fact of life. Perhaps you'd change your tune, but I doubt it.

Yeah, because Chicago has, like, way fewer illegal immigrants than most southern cities, right? :lol:

And Illinois isn't the state that has the fourth largest illegal immigrant population. 5th most per capita.
 
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Hopefully they fire the idiot who made this decision and find a replacement who is more interested in doing her job than expressing her political views.
 
I'm 100% in favor of breaking federal laws that are not within the purview of federal authority, yes.



I'm for states being able to decide their own residency and I would like to see federal laws that are not constitutional abolished. If the federal law is outside the realm of federal authority, it should be broken.

I prefer it if they use fake SS numbers instead of stolen ones.



Yeah, because Chicago has, like, way fewer illegal immigrants than most southern cities, right? :lol:

And Illinois isn't the state that has the fourth largest illegal immigrant population. 5th most per capita.

The problem is not the amount of illegals comparing Arizona to Illinois, it is the violence that comes with the border that is not in Chicago.

Why is that part always left out of the discussion where Arizona is concerned.

The left wants people to think this is about harrassing maids or dish washers but the aim is to get as many illegals out of the state before they can cause harm to legal residents.

Go live in Nogales Arizona for a couple of weeks and you will change your mind.
 
Why is that part always left out of the discussion where Arizona is concerned.

The left wants people to think this is about harrassing maids or dish washers but the aim is to get as many illegals out of the state before they can cause harm to legal residents.

Go live in Nogales Arizona for a couple of weeks and you will change your mind.

Why is the fact that I've already said I support Arizona's right to pass such legislation always left out of all of the big government leftists responses to me?

Are you saying that if I went to Nogales I'd be in favor of overturning such legislation?
 
How many of the "conservatives" here are actually willing to take the same stance about a school in a state that has jack **** to do with them?

That would be totally spot on if you had conservatives on here advocating the government to step in and force the school to attend the tournament.

Having an opinion on the dumbass decisions of the school and being for government expansion into the issue are two completely different issues.
 
That would be totally spot on if you had conservatives on here advocating the government to step in and force the school to attend the tournament.

Having an opinion on the dumbass decisions of the school and being for government expansion into the issue are two completely different issues.

Good point. Even though I was talking about supporting their right to make those decisions. Kinda like I support Arizona's right to pass dumbass legislation where the government steps in to prevent certain types of ethnic studies classes and Texas' right to pass dumbass legislation related to "librul" content in classes.

But allow me to rephrase:

How many of the "conservatives" here support repealing Federal immigration laws and leaving such laws up to the states?
 
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The tournament will go on. It is the kids who loose out. By them not coming do the parents really think the Govenor of AZ will unsign the Bill. Wonder what the kids will think of their parents if SB1070 makes it through the court challenges and is deemed constitutional?
 
The tournament will go on. It is the kids who loose out. By them not coming do the parents really think the Govenor of AZ will unsign the Bill. Wonder what the kids will think of their parents if SB1070 makes it through the court challenges and is deemed constitutional?

I don't know what the parents will think, but I hope Arizona's legislation does make it through the courts and is deemed constitutional, myself.

Anything less would be the courts ****ting on the constitution, IMO.
 
Then you and I are on the same side (as long as we ain't in the same state :lol:).

True. However, I do think that the Fed should be able to withhold money for social services and public works as leverage in persuading states to standardize their immigration policies.
 
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Hopefully they fire the idiot who made this decision and find a replacement who is more interested in doing her job than expressing her political views.

Not doing this would be just as much of a political statement as doing it.
 
True. However, I do think that the Fed should be able to withhold money for social services and public works as leverage in persuading states to standardize their immigration policies.

Well, if I had my way, that wouldn't matter so much because the whole tax system would get flip-flopped.
 
I'm pro-illegal. And I'm from Illinois.

Love the decision. Good on 'em.

Here's the thing, though. Because I'm an actual small government conservative I support Arizona's right to pass whatever laws/rules they deem fit. I also support areas on Illinois making the choice to boycott (more directly as well).

How many of the "conservatives" here are actually willing to take the same stance about a school in a state that has jack **** to do with them?

It sounds like the school's decision was an authoritarian one and the stakeholders were not given proper input into what appears to be a moronic decision.
 
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