SB1070 Update: San Diego School District: Kids, don’t travel to Arizona

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by David Safier

Tuesday SDUSD will vote on a resolution proposed by the School Board president. It's just another example of the blowback over our regressive ways.

Board of Education will consider on Tuesday warning its students and parents against travel to Arizona, where a new immigration law was recently adopted.

A resolution proposed by school board President Richard Barrera condemns the legislation, demands its repeal, and cautions students and family from spending time in Arizona "due to the risk they may face in being subjected to inappropriate and unlawful scrutiny."

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According to the proposed resolution scheduled to be taken up at a meeting Tuesday evening, 44 percent of SDUSD students are Hispanic and 75 percent are non-white.

Those students could "potentially be targeted and harassed by law enforcement officials in Arizona as `reasonably suspect' if they fall into a stereotype held by law enforcement officers," the resolution states.

"The law undermines fundamental civil rights and civil liberties, and poses a special threat to people of color who live in and travel through Arizona," it says.

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1 thought on “SB1070 Update: San Diego School District: Kids, don’t travel to Arizona”

  1. Errrr…while I agree that SB1070 is a weight that will drag our economy further into the sea of red ink, I don’t think a school board in any state has room to weigh in on this one.

    Once you open the door on this kind of stuff, how many “resolutions” could be passed on tax payer time to cover all the politically charged hot-spots that students should avoid? Plenty to do in everyone’s own backyard if you ask me.

    Even if that individual resolution doesn’t bug you, just think how much time certain Arizona legislators will be spending next session issuing another series of empty, retaliatory motions against all their new detractors like the San Diego School Board. Ay-yi-yi…it will probably take a whole special session of pontificating and strutting about like angry chickens before they feel that their honor has been restored. Let’s not even go there!

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