Authorities tightening control of student immigration protests

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CHRISTINA ALMEIDA
Associated Press

... Some 11,600 students cut classes in Los Angeles County, and thousands of others demonstrated from Central California to San Diego and elsewhere in the West. As many as 3,000 students rallied at the Arizona state Capitol in Phoenix and a similar number left their schools in Texas. More than 1,000 students rallied near the Las Vegas Strip after being directed away from casinos. In California's agricultural Central Valley, 1,000 students thronged Fresno City Hall, waving Mexican, Salvadoran and U.S. flags, and carrying signs reading "Who will pick your fruits?" and "The economy would collapse without us" ...

In the giant Los Angeles Unified School District, which is nearly 73 percent Hispanic, teens rallied despite rain and campus lockdowns, but the number - about 8,800 - was well down from the tens of thousands who marched freely Monday ...

http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/news/14208459.htm


Despite warnings, more students protest immigration bill
By ROBERT JABLON Associated Press Writer

... Authorities who had taken a watch-and-wait attitude on Monday had a harsher stance Tuesday. In the city of Carson, authorities with batons and helmets temporarily ringed dozens of youngsters in front of a high school before allowing them to march. In the San Pedro area of Los Angeles, dozens of students walked onto a freeway ramp, apparently heading for the Vincent Thomas Bridge that crosses the Los Angeles harbor, before they were stopped by police and turned around. Other marchers were chased by police and a dozen or more were detained, according to television reports, although police said there were no immediate arrests.

http://www.helenair.com/articles/2006/03/28/national_top/000imm.txt


Las Vegas High School Students Rally in Protest

Hundreds of students from several high schools boycotted classes to march across the city and down the Las Vegas Strip to protest a plan that would change the status of some 12 million undocumented workers ...

According to the Clark County School District, between 800 and 1,000 students participated in Tuesday's walk-out. School district buses eventually took the students back to their schools.

http://www.klastv.com/Global/story.asp?S=4691649&nav=menu102_2


High school students hold another immigration rally at Capitol

PHOENIX For the second day in a row, hundreds of students left school and rallied outside the Arizona Capitol ...

Police estimate that about one-thousand students held up traffic along several Phoenix streets as they made their way to the Capitol ...

Police reported hundreds more students gathered in other parts of suburban Phoenix ...

http://www.kpho.com/Global/story.asp?S=4694143


Students voice opposition to immigration proposals

By Rosa Ramirez, Rocky Mountain News
March 28, 2006
About 25 Westminster High School students, some waving a Mexican flag, rallied in Civic Center park in downtown Denver this morning in an effort to have the voices of young Latinos heard in the immigration debate ...

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_4576824,00.html


Texas Students Walk Out Over Immigration Laws

Monday morning students in Dallas rushed City Hall for the rights of illegal immigrants. Tuesday morning students from Fort Worth joined in by going to Fort Worth City Hall.

One student Richie Meza said, "They work here. They work in construction. They build the houses. Not everybody else is in the hot (weather) working outside. They're inside in air conditioning. We came to help them out, you know, protest" ...

http://www.shortnews.com/start.cfm?id=53565&rubrik1=Current%20Events&rubrik2=Politics&rubrik3=Civil%20Unrest%2FCoups&sort=1&sparte=4


DISD Warns Of Protester Discipline
POSTED: 5:12 pm CST March 28, 2006
UPDATED: 7:10 pm CST March 28, 2006

DALLAS -- Dallas Independent School District administrators said they would begin disciplinary actions against students who skip classes to participate in area demonstrations ...

http://www.nbc5i.com/news/8322411/detail.html


MORE STUDENTS WALK OUT
Tuesday, March 28, 2006 - FreeMarketNews.com

Students in the Houston area protested Tuesday for the second day in a row as the U.S. Senate considers proposed changes to the country's immigration laws. Officials with the Fort Bend, Houston and Pasadena independent school districts said hundreds of students walked out of school between 8:30 a.m. and 10 a.m. Tuesday. Houston police said they have taken some students into custody and that several others were cited for daytime curfew violations.

http://www.shortnews.com/start.cfm?id=53565&rubrik1=Current%20Events&rubrik2=Politics&rubrik3=Civil%20Unrest%2FCoups&sort=1&sparte=4


Students Hit the Street in Va. Over Immigration
Mar 28th - 5:50pm
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Students protest at Quincy Park Tuesday afternoon. (Hank Silverberg/WTOP Radio)
http://www.wtopnews.com/index.php?nid=25&sid=739246

[Erika]

1. This is disgusting. We need reconciliation.

I pity this country when it takes stands against Latinos.

American employers would scream like hell if their source of slave labor was shut off.

[burrowowl]

2. Yep!

Especially those who don't pay the workers half the time!