Local outrage

Here's something that was written locally and I wanted to find out YOUR opinion on the situation...All the blurbs below are from local blogs/news sites:

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Last Thursday, a 17-year old freshman student at a local high school was caught with marijuana in his backpack. The City Police Department was called in. The officers found out that the freshman and his parents were illegal aliens. The student, his younger brother and his parents have been deported. The father had been caught several times entering the U.S. illegally in the past.

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On Tuesday of this week, about 150 students, mostly from Catalina High, took to the streets in protest of a fellow student that was deported along with his family after authorities found marijuana in his backpack. The teens were shouting, "We're students, not criminals," and carried signs that said "keep the migra out of our schools," and "we are students, not terrorists."

No one said they were criminals. The student who had the marijuana was the criminal, as were his parents.

This is a perfect example of your tax dollars being wasted. Students who should be in school were allowed to walk out with no repercussions. Meanwhile, you have illegal immigrants students high on pot in school getting a free education for breaking the laws that the rest of us uphold.

Border Patrol should have taught all these students on their parents a lesson and checked the background of the protestors, they left the school grounds. By their rules they are fair game.

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Late Tuesday after the protest, officials from the City Police Department and the City School District met and enacted a policy change. The change? When police officers are called to a campus to enforce laws, they are NOT allowed to call the immigration department (INS) when they find that the person(s) they are dealing with are illegal aliens.

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On Wednesday of this week, the City Police Dept responded to a call from another local high school over a student who was caught smoking marijuana on campus. The student was an illegal alien. In accordance with a new policy change, the Immigration authorities (INS) was NOT CALLED. The student was booked into the juvenile detention facility.

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So basically, two agencies that are at their core supposed to protect the citizens of our city/state/country are now NOT ALLOWED to work together. My city's police officers are not allowed to call the federal officials to enforce our immigration laws. Does that make any sense to you? The new policy was decided upon from the "top" levels of our City's Police Dept and our City's School District. Remember the School District who only gave their teachers a 1% raise? Yes. THOSE people. And I hear that the police officers who are out in the town actually trying to enforce our laws are pretty disgusted by the new policy.

What do you think? Shouldn't our law enforcement agencies (city/state/federal) work together when a law is broken? Shouldn't they?

I just wonder what kind of a stand our Republican and Democratic hopefuls will take on a situation like this....it would be VERY interesting to hear what each would say about this.