School Board Warns Against AZ Travel!
SAN DIEGO — The San Diego Unified School District could issue a warning to students and their families against traveling to Arizona in light of the state’s new immigration law under a proposal going before the board of education on Tuesday.
The proposed resolution from board President Richard Barrera denounces the controversial law, stating that it “undermines fundamental civil rights and civil liberties” and “poses a special threat to people of color.”
Signed into law April 23 by Arizona’s governor, the legislation will allow police and other local law enforcement officials to question anyone on their immigration status if they have been stopped for any reasonable cause. Legal immigrants are required to offer proof they are permitted in the country or face detainment.
About 75 percent of the San Diego Unified School District’s 130,000 students are minorities, and 44 percent are of Latino origin, making them particularly vulnerable to harassment under the new law, Barrera says in his proposal.
The resolution goes on to state that the law is “permitting state and local law enforcement officials to engage in racial profiling. thereby turning the clock back on a generation of civil rights gains.”
San Diego Unified would be the latest in a series of government agencies and officials to condemn the Arizona law, including the San Diego City Council and U.S. Customs and Border Commissioner Alan Bersin, who is also a former superintendent of the district.
Trustees are set to take up the matter during their meeting at 5 p.m. Tuesday at district headquarters, 4100 Normal St. in University Heights.
Source: http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2...nts-against-t/
The proposed resolution from board President Richard Barrera denounces the controversial law, stating that it “undermines fundamental civil rights and civil liberties” and “poses a special threat to people of color.”
Signed into law April 23 by Arizona’s governor, the legislation will allow police and other local law enforcement officials to question anyone on their immigration status if they have been stopped for any reasonable cause. Legal immigrants are required to offer proof they are permitted in the country or face detainment.
About 75 percent of the San Diego Unified School District’s 130,000 students are minorities, and 44 percent are of Latino origin, making them particularly vulnerable to harassment under the new law, Barrera says in his proposal.
The resolution goes on to state that the law is “permitting state and local law enforcement officials to engage in racial profiling. thereby turning the clock back on a generation of civil rights gains.”
San Diego Unified would be the latest in a series of government agencies and officials to condemn the Arizona law, including the San Diego City Council and U.S. Customs and Border Commissioner Alan Bersin, who is also a former superintendent of the district.
Trustees are set to take up the matter during their meeting at 5 p.m. Tuesday at district headquarters, 4100 Normal St. in University Heights.
Source: http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2...nts-against-t/
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