Los Angeles Students to Be Taught That Arizona Immigration Law Is Un-American

[24KT]

Loco as usual is missing the point.

The cops have to suspect you broke the law.

After that, they have to suspect you are here illegally ( and they cant use your skin color or nationality to make that determination).

Then, AFTER they suspect you may be illegal they can ask you to present 1 of 10 documents.

If you are pulled over and have a valid U.S. drivers license with your photo and your name on it, along with your car registration, why would the officer suspect you were in the country illegally?

If you were walking down the street and there was probable cause you committed a crime, but you had a valid DL with your name and face on it, why would the cop suspect that you were an illegal?

This law is not that big a deal folks. Stop using emotion and use a little bit of reason.

The drivers license and registration didn't help that trucker from Sacramento. He ended up in jail, and his wife had to drop everything and show up at the station with his birth certificate. She brought her own too... just in case.

[George Whorewell]

As someone else has pointed out, was the AZ law even in effect when the guy was detained?

[Soul Crusher]

No, the law is not even in effect yet. 

Its just moree 240 cry baby bs after what happened to him.   

[George Whorewell]

So then what possible relevance can that video have to this conversation at all?

Jag is as usual too stupid and lazy to pay attention to what's going on.

[kcballer]

Here is my take on this.  It's not the best decision by the school board but it's not a big deal either.  Lets face it the kids who "learn" this are going to form their own opinions regardless of the teaching anyway.  We don't teach racism in schools yet we still have racists.  The kids probably won't even remember it 5 minutes after they've supposedly 'learned' it.  And even if they do remember it i highly, highly doubt they will use it as a basis to believe it.  Their belief in the law as un-American will come from their peer group and families.  Not the school.  So please lets not make this more than what it is. 

A minor misjudgment with no lasting effects outside of making the person enforcing it feel good about themselves.

[Fury]

Here is my take on this.  It's not the best decision by the school board but it's not a big deal either.  Lets face it the kids who "learn" this are going to form their own opinions regardless of the teaching anyway.  We don't teach racism in schools yet we still have racists.  The kids probably won't even remember it 5 minutes after they've supposedly 'learned' it.  And even if they do remember it i highly, highly doubt they will use it as a basis to believe it.  Their belief in the law as un-American will come from their peer group and families.  Not the school.  So please lets not make this more than what it is. 

A minor misjudgment with no lasting effects outside of making the person enforcing it feel good about themselves.

What an utterly ridiculous justification of it. 

[kcballer]

What an utterly ridiculous justification of it. 

I'm not justifying anything here.  Just stating what a lot of people over look.  Education is not about one line of thinking.  It's about many different ideas being taught to get a well balanced individual.  But the problem is the kids being taught this won't remember it and if they do it'll only be because of the fuss made by all the parents.