High School Students Angry about Immigration Bill

Students from Lanier, LBJ, Garza and Reagan High schools walked out of class this morning and set on their way to the Capitol in protest of the Immigration Bill (or rather, the anti-Immigration Bill) up before Congress. A large group of students from the Del Valle area are headed to downtown Austin in protest and the Statesman reports that at the rate the students are walking, they may make it to the Capitol sometime tonight. A smaller number of Round Rock students also walked out and protested in front of their city library. Kick-ass. Comparable walk-outs occured in El Paso, Houston and Dallas this morning.

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By Elizabeth S. in News on March 30, 2006 2:20 PM 0 Comments

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Kat

I hear part of this bill makes it a felony to house an illegal immigrant. A FELONY. That's bullshit. Not sure why the Stoney Point kids would go to Round Rock either though, or why Round Rock would "lock-down" their kids in dark classrooms because of it. Weird.

Penguin

We had, I think it was said, about 100 of the Stoney Point kids marching around our campus (Round Rock HS) - why they would go to our campus I have no idea , but they put our school on lock-down(kept all students inside their class, lights off, told to shutup) for an hour and a half and pretty much screwed up class schedules. After a while they were all bussed back to their campus and were given "just punishment".

eliz. s.

Hmm. Well, I prefer the McCain-Kennedy guest worker bill (which even Bush supports) to this crappy Immigration bill that is currently being considered. So I'm glad there is some protest going on.

It's a complicated issue, that's for sure.

M1EK

Yeah. Kick-ass. Unless you're one of the many people, some of whom even read this site, who don't believe that illegal immigration should be rewarded, or is good for this country.

GMAFB.