Opponents Speak Out Against Bill Barring Undocumented Students from Ga. Public Colleges
Opponents to Senate Bill 458 spoke out at a rally held at the Georgia state capitol on Tuesday morning.
About 25 opponents of Georgia Senate Bill 458, which would ban undocumented residents from attending public schools in the state, showed up at the state Capitol with signs that read “Education, not segregation” and “Education is a right, not a ‘benefit’”and spoke out against the bill, which now heads to the full Senate after being passed out of committee Wednesday. The Georgia Undocumented Youth Alliance, the ACLU of Georgia, the Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights, Freedom University and Sen. Nan Orrock hosted the rally. Several high school and college students, most of whom are undocumented, vocalized their opposition to the bill. Azadeh Shahshahani, the director of the ACLU’s immigrant rights project who was also a panelist for a …
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Rich "The Equalizer" Pellegrino
12:17 am on Monday, March 5, 2012
From the comments of "Just a Grunt" and others like hm/her I guess you believe in the concept of punishing the children for sins of their parents....hmmm....guess that means you also believe in reparations for the slaves and Jim-Crow era lynched innocents, and that all the corporations, landowner families, churches, and other institutions who supported slavery and then Jim Crow should pay … more ›