Open borders principal: “We’ve been bloggercized”
Hey, remember that Open Borders 101 high school course I blogged about last week–where the students put themselves in an illegal alien’s shoes and were taught how to evade the law and cook up schemes to fraudulently gain legal status, but were never taught to put themselves in the shoes of anyone who has a dissenting perspective on illegal immigration?
Well, the school has responded to the Internet backlash. They’re standing by the propagandizing teacher. Via the Columbus Dispatch:
The reaction was swift and sure, and it came from across the country.
A story in Saturday’s Dispatch about an immigration project run by Olentangy Liberty High School Spanish teacher Erica Vieyra sparked instant outrage. First, it drew fire from nationally syndicated conservative columnist Michelle Malkin, then from dozens of Internet bloggers before finally showing up on the Drudge Report, an online aggregator of news sites.
Before long, the e-mail inboxes of administrators filled up and national radio talk-show hosts called looking for interviews. Even CNN wanted a comment.
Though the district went through an Internet phenomenon once before, after the superintendent banned two books from a high-school summer reading list in 2006, the national attention this time around caught Liberty Principal Mark Raiff off guard. Locals, it seemed, weren’t calling or stopping Raiff on the street to complain. The story grew online.
“We’ve been bloggercized,” Raiff said.
The principal said Vieyra was teaching the kids “incredible things.” I’ll say:
Forty Spanish V students assumed make-believe Latino identities, researched life in their “home” countries and developed plans to get into the United States. The students first filled out actual paperwork from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and, after Vieyra denied them entry, they developed plans to sneak in.
The students researched places to live, work and bank. Then, by the end of the project, they devised a way to gain legal status, by marrying a citizen or becoming a student, for example.
So, these government-subsidized educators are teaching children how to subvert immigration law and learn the ways of the open borders racket. But we’re the “fringe” and the “mob:”
The fact that such a project drew national fire doesn’t surprise Ezra C. Escudero, director of Ohio’s Office of Hispanic/Latino Affairs. He said the immigration issue no longer has a middle ground.
“It has become a hypercharged, polarized debate on the fringe,” he said. “But it involves real people in real situations, and we must find a way to be able to discuss it civilly.”
That doesn’t happen much online, experts say. Kelly McBride is an ethics group leader at the Poynter Institute, a school for journalists in St. Petersburg, Fla.
“The Internet is a contact sport,” McBride said. Things that once would have been very local news stories now spread like wildfire, she said.
Those interviewed or involved, she said, often underestimate online reaction. “Once the snowball gets rolling there’s nothing you can do about it except recognize the Internet is a mob mentality and deal with it.”
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Check out the teacher’s blog here.
Hey, maybe teacher can draw up a lesson on Hillary Clinton’s new tough-on-criminal illegal aliens stance!
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“Mob mentality”, huh? True liberal discussion. We think your values stink on ice, you think we’re a “Mob”. No evaluation or justification of your position, just name calling.
lol, Michelle the mob boss. “she’ll make you an offer you cant refuse”
I wonder if the teacher passed out the maps they have of the best illegal crossing points.
Sounds like they are teaching the kids to lie and bypass the law.
Do they have a class to teach the students how to bypass any of the school’s rules and regulations they don’t like?
I firmly agree that this teacher is in the wrong here. And obviously the principal doesn’t see it that way, so it’s a good thing the issue has come up and the floodgates have opened.
But I’ll ask this. What other term would you use to describe the way the internet works in cases like this?
Sometimes the “mob” is right.
The Mob Squad
“Once the snowball gets rolling there’s nothing you can do about it except recognize the Internet is a mob mentality and deal with it.”
Hey Mob how you all doing today!
As an American of Italian descent I find the use of the word “mob” to describe a group to which I belong to be racist and demeaning.
[/sarcasm off]
Wow! The Malkin Mob strikes again.
The open borderists always confuse IMMIGRATION with ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION. How convenient…
The teacher said:
“She said she’s charged with not only teaching Spanish but also making sure the students learn about the perspectives, products and practices of Spanish-speaking cultures.”
Yet, in typical liberal fashion, she omits the perspective of the “other side” and fails to even mention the societal costs born by US citizens (i.e. Medical care, murders, costs of incarceration and etc.).
And the multiculturalists wonder why many of us are up in arms!
Mob, indeed. If it wasn’t for MM and others “Bloggercising” them, these issues would be swept under the rug. Thanks, Michelle for not letting the issue die and for keeping their feet to the fire!
The idiocy of centralized top-down education opens its gaping yaw allowing the insipidities to be known by all. I agree with Ron Paul that the Department of Re-education needs to be wiped-out….IMMEDIATELY!
Next lesson plan: How to rob banks and get away with it. Research home life of bank robbers, early childhood influences, family customs. How to case out banks that would be easy to rob. Getting a gun. Disguising yourself. Best ways to intimidate tellers. Dealing with innocent bystanders. Getting away with the loot and avoiding the exploding dye packs. Where to stash the money. How to spend the money without being caught.
And next week kid’s will teach you how to make a meth lab.
Here are their e-mail addresses:
teri_meider@olentangy.k12.oh.us
brad_reynolds@olentangy.k12.oh.us
julie_wagner_feasel@olentangy.k12.oh.us
scott_galloway@olentangy.k12.oh.us
barry_jamieson@olentangy.k12.oh.us
Who I am a “made man” part of the Malkin mob led by Godmother Michelle. If we were there would be a lot of traitors sleeping with the fishes (in my best Jersey accent, which ain’t that good). LOL!
I can’t believe this woman teaches her students to violate the laws of this country and can get away with it. I guess next she can teach identity theft 101, car theft 101, or bank robbing 101. Another example of our stolen tax dollars paid in tribute to a Government that no longer listens to the “will of the people” at work.
Who = Wow (preview you idiot)!
I sent an e-mail to the school board members:
Big bad teacher denying them entry after following the law of the land and then giving the students the mindset thats it’s just easier to bypass our laws and all is okey dokey. If she focused on the education of these kids on the proper way without the illegal curriculum she added maybe just maybe this would be a helpful tool for them to educate others on entering the USA legally in the future. What lame brains you are Erica Vieyra and Principal Raiff.
The more democrat you are, the more liberal you are. And that’s the truth.
This lesson seems a bit racist to me. Is it really Spanish or Mexican culture to commit fraud and sneak into another country? Can’t they find real virtues to discuss, rather than stereotypes?
How about a chemistry class to teach how to safely prepare meth and crack cocaine?
Michelle’s Mob,Love it,does that make us all Goodfellas,no wonder I have a craving for lasagna.What do we have to do to earn our “bones”.
How long before one of the teachers takes up teaching kids how to properly assemble and use a bomb belt?
…And you chose to take something that is considered a “hypercharged, polarized debate” and teach kids about it when they are supposed to be learning?
I concur that illegal immigration is very divisive; however, where’s the debate taking shape? If it cannot be held in the MSM then you can rest assured that it will take place in the blogosphere. It’s laughable that people talk about the internet and what bloggers accomplish in a dismissive fashion. They’ll rue the day.
These are kids don’t involve them in political matters. Let them be kids. If we adults cannot address this civilly then what exactly do we hope to accomplish by indoctrinating, er um discussing it with kids?
No wonder johnny can’t read. He’s being hand molded into how to circumvent the legal system! From a high school who’s mascot name is The Patriots. Oh the sick irony.
And your tax dollars are paying for this crap, people.
Yes, yes. Writing the board members or venting on the turd teacher’s blog is a stop gap measure, but
There’s only one way to kill this blotted, corrupt, and perverse government school monster: STARVE IT! CUT OFF THE OCEAN OF MONEY that feeds this seditious garbage!!!
VOTE SCHOOL VOUCHERS-VOTE SCHOOL CHOICE!!
Hmmmmm.
Let that same teacher’s class pretend to be Jesus or Christians -how He lived, His messages, His lifestyle, etc.
Then watch what would happen..
Illegals have more status than our Creator’s Son.
Pathetic.
locomotivebreath1901;
I agree wholeheartedly with what you have stated.
We CUT THEM OFF when WE stop funding them…….Taxes…..is a start.
I preach to the choir but haven’t had one person on here to say they will take action.
I am……starting Now.
When I hear the word mob I usually think about Democrat union bosses from the 60′s and 70′s, the Chicago Democrat political machine, and Democrat anti-war protesters and immigrant right rallies. But I digress. Now that we’re the Mob should we refer to our hostess as Don Michell?
What’s next? Teaching them how to counterfeit money? Maybe a little course on identity theft? Instead of teaching respect for the law they are teaching how to skirt the law. Real good lessons you are teaching. The government schools have become a plague on our society rather then something envisioned to produce to a smart, educated, and responsible citizen.
Extra credit for protesting the government but suspension for showing support for soldiers. Suspension for drawing pictures of a stick figure with a gun but building peace centers on the site of a building in a gun free zone that was the scene of the worst shooting on a college campus. Homework assignments requiring the kids to write nasty letters to soldiers but taking exception to saying the pledge of allegiance to the flag.
And in the coming years all these people will stand around wringing their hands and despairing how our society has deginerated to blatant lawlessness. You want a microcosm of what a society that embraces defying the law, look at the African American community with all of its problems, which in no small way are tied them embracing the hip-hop culture.
I’ve e-mailed them. We’ll see if they respond.
How about a class where the students research how to sneak a gun into school?
The 40 students can fill out actual gun licenses from the local police station, and after the licenses are denied they can develop plans to buy the guns on the black market.
Then by the end of the project the students can actually sneak 40 fake guns into the school, and proudly display them by surprise all over the school at a certain time of the day.
I can absolutely guarantee that the smug school administrator would have a different response.
Well of course they are.
Next week the girls will wear burka’s and the guys can treat them like trash. If a girl gets too close to a guy that is not her husband, they guys can gang rape her and then give her a pardon instead of 200 lashes.
Endless possibilities here.
Soap #33 So True…
The Quisling tritors are now so mainstream, they are shocked that anyone objects to their teaching how to break our laws and invade our country.
I don’t give a rat’s rump if the teacher assigns students to make the ‘emmigration’ assignment as real as possible. Gives them some perspective.
NOW!!! Lets turn the tables, and require those students to figure out how to live in THE OTHER COUNTRY illegally! Teach them how to bribe officials, deal with the drug cartels, live in the shadows of official corruption and slumlord shacks.
Give them the perspective from both ends; I can live with that. But the liklihood of that happening is slim to none when a liberal, ope- borders government employee is at the wheel.
jsr #29,
Should that be Dona(with a ~) Michelle?
Look on the bright side, no Teddy Bears were harmed in this excercise.
Does she need to add a swimming class?
#37 TM
I stand corrected. Doña Michelle. Has a nice ring, no? Just don’t cross her!
Another lesson objective:
In the spirit of; the Senate 30-second pro forma sessions to block the president from making recess appointments, teach the kids how to run a class like the Senate. They can send in one student every day who says, “we are here” then leaves therefore, no homework can be assigned.
We could only wish that mom and dad would keep them home and give them a real education.
You’ve been bloggercized again. Keep up the stupidity and you will continue to get it!!!
Sadly, Babelfish doesn’t do Liberal-to-English translations, so here’s mine:
Whats next, teaching them how to cheat on exams? The Olentangy Board of Education obviously isnt teaching these kids anything worthwhile. They’re going to need an angle when they get to college.
The real victims of this diversity training are the hard working assimilated Hispanics.
That is so awesome that they name you by name MM. They aren’t surprised about the story on the internet. . . maybe because they shouldn’t be doing anything remotely like this in a public school class. They are supposed to learn Spanish. Apart from that, they are ripping off the taxpayers. What part about that do they not understand? Is it not enough that the illegals use up all the class space? Do they also have to use up the space that the legal US citizens are taking with these bogus illegal alien exercises?
But oh yeah, this public school and their teacher are the victim. When public school teaches that breaking the law is the best thing to do, that school is breaking the law.
It probably doesn’t on the liberal blogs they read. They should try hanging out on blogs like this where a certain amount of decorum is required.
Translation: “If you tell me where I’m wrong, you’ll bruise my delicate liberal feelings.”
And I’d like to say that I’ve never thought of myself as a mobster before. This a new experience for me. I always thought mobs were a big city thing that didn’t affect us wilderness dwellers.
Also, based on our Godmother’s dexterity, I think she should have the nickname “Lefty.”
I can’t wait until she teaches them about MS-13
& in this corner:
The Public School System
& in this corner:
The Illegal Handouts System
& in this corner:
The System to allow Squalor Expansion
& in this corner Mighty-Joe-Taxpayer
ladies & gentlemen…
MightyJoeT is clearly outnumbered…
the odds here are really stacked against him…wait…wait…
he’s beginning to protest to the Ref
….wait…OMG…a huge brawl is breaking out…is it?!!!….is it….OMG
Mighty-Joe-Taxpayer has had enough!!!
ding ding ding!!!!!ding!!!!!dingding
He’s come out swinging!!!! ding ding ding!!!!!! ding ding ding!!!!!!!! ding ding ding!!!!!!!! ding ding ding!!!!! ding ding ding!!!! ding ding ding
This is one of the reasons why I am studying French! (We’re not learning to break laws & I am paying for the classes out of my own pocket not someone else’s.) And if I am the last person in the country who can’t speak Spanish, so be it.
Right has become wrong and Wrong has become right.
Gotta love America’s left
That is apparently old news in suburbs surrounding Columbus.
http://www.gangwar.com/blog/2006/10/hardcore-gangs-hit-ohio-suburbs.html
You make me laugh.
I’m sorry, being devoted to your Godmother just doesn’t seem too threatening. Of course, having a Godmother is more threatening to the left than having illegals swarming over the border.
And Donna Michelle sounds more like a cheerleader than a mob leader.
(No ~ in the Italian version)
yes teaching unusual and incredible things like breaking the law. how novel? thank God my children are not in public school anymore.
So did any of the kids get to rob, rape and murder kids from the English class? How about going through a gang initiation?
Just saying “let’s make it realistic”.
Translation: Now that the Internet gets the truth out to the public, it is much, much harder to hide the inappropriate propaganda fed to our students and it really ticks us off.
During the debate in congress about comprehensive “Shamnesty” we were called by Republican senators”the loud people”. Now we’re called the “mob”. We’ve slipped down the slippery slope quite a ways if being the “majority” is called a mob. This darn Constitution thing seems to get into liberals way.
I just sent the teacher a letter including the following: Why not have them be legal immigrants who spent over ten years to become citizens. Then, have them try to find out what it is like when an illegal alien steals your identity, clears out your bank account, signs up for and racks up charges on a dozen credit cards using your name. Let them see how hard it is to ever get your name cleared again, how much time they will have to spend in court and on lawyers. Have them call each other at all hours of the night, role playing collection agencies. For that true reality experience, have someone rent a tow truck and “repossess” their car for a week to pay for debts they never accrued.
Or have them role play a hospital administrator trying to find a way to pay for all the illegals who use the ER as thier primary care physician and never pay- let them see the direct result of this on the increased cost to everyone who legally uses the same services. Don’t forget to add in longer waiting times now!
There are so many wonderful role playing learning experiences you can share with your students- why stop at what you have thus far?
Great lesson plan JoAnn, but it won’t float with the teacher. The truth gets in the way of her agenda and that just wouldn’t do.
Looking at the teacher’s blog, I was directed here:
So, not only do we make it difficult to get here illegally, we refuse to give non-English speakers job apps in their own language. This is such a horrid country. Why would anyone want to come here?
The article goes on to equate the difficulty of adopting one of the students from a Russian agency to the plight of people trying to get legal citizenship. The implication being we force people to become illegal.
How about using the same lesson plan to immigrate to Mexico from let’s say,Guatemala. Mexico’s policy is brutal. That would be an education.
How’s Doña Michella?
M6-3
icepick
I still like Firecracker..
This is the letter I sent the author of the article in the Columbus Post Dispatch:
Next year the students should try and earn $10,000 in a single week, legally. That’s equivalent to the kind of income that “millionaires” make, and I think it would be valuable for the students to get an understanding of just how hard it is to make that kind of money.
Once they realized that they would likely need some capital to start their idea, along with a back-breaking work-ethic, the teacher can stamp a giant “DENIED” on their application for a small business loan.
Then they should be told to lay out the plans it would take to earn that money illegaly.
How much pot would they have to grow in their basement? How long would it take? Would they know how to process it? How about distribution?
How about smuggling prescription drugs here from Canada, for re-sale? What works best, a jeep across the border in North Dakota, or a boat across the Great Lakes?
Or perhaps they should plan a robbery that would net them $10,000 in a single hit. Where could they find that kind of cash in one place? How would they be sure that there weren’t dye-packs in with the money? Where would they get the weapons they’d likely want to carry with them?
Or let’s really work on empathy and plan the next terrorist attack. I’m sure that 17 year old students are mature enough to really get a lot out of “getting into the head” of Al Qaeda.
If we’re going to try to teach empathy for illegal acts and perps, lets not limit ourselves to illegal immigration. A well-trained criminal-candidate really should understand how criminals justify their acts (“I was denied an opportunity”) and then know the whole range of crimes available to them “to make things fair.”
There’s a *reason* that DENIED is stamped on those papers. Just because Vieyra disagrees with the reason doesn’t give her the right to encourage breaking the law.
A lot of people think that marijuana should be legal – but that doesn’t give them the right to grow and sell it. A lot of people think that the rich should be taxed more, but that doesn’t give them the right to break into affluent homes and take “their fair share.” A whole chunk of the world think that women should be – and I’m being charitable here – relegated to second class citizens. That doesn’t give them the right to try to convert us at sword point.
Vieyra might think that her approach is unbiased, but if hers is then so are these others.
Debate and discussion is one thing; training is quite another.
I’m sure glad I don’t live in Columbus…
this idiot teacher uses Comic Sans font on her blog – that’s a horrible offense as well
Endless possibilities!!!
My contribution to the lesson plan would be to have half the class (say 20 or so) welded into a chevy passenger van with a gallon of water, and a big pot to poop in. Then left out in the desert to see how many would still be alive after a few days. Of course, don’t forget to charge each of their families a couple thousand dollars first.
The other half of the class would be robbed and raped. Then given backpacks filled with cocaine to deliver to the mexican mafia in Phoenix. Then after delivering the goods, be stuffed into another chevy passenger van, and driven to Chicago by a crazy man. They would wreck on the icy roads along I-70, just outside of Aspen. Hitting an American family headon and killing the whole family. Some in the van would be killed. The rest would run away.
Anyone, who made it to the local Chili’s, and got a job as a busboy, would get an “A”. Those who did not make it through would also get an “A”, because we wouldn’t want to hurt their feelings.
Endless possibilities
If you are going to have a class portraying the difficulties of illegal aliens then you also ought to have one portraying the difficulties of border agents, businesses and communities flooded by illegal aliens. That is the fair and balanced way to get all of the issues on the table.
Fixed it for him
“Mob”, huh? Wasn’t the Boston Tea Party technically a mob action?
We all know this is not a real exercise in teaching these bad things because none of the real illegal immigrants actually applied to come to the US first.
/sarc off
I just get more and more amazed everyday how warped the values in this nation have become. Sometimes I have to ask these people “Do you even realize what you are supporting?” These aren’t even liberal values anymore.
Teaching children how to committ a felony seems like it could be another plank in the socialist democrat platform.
SOCIALIST DEMOCRATS HOLIDAY LIST (not permitted to call is a Christmas List)
1) Surrender the war on terror and blame the USA for all the worlds problems; 2) Withdraw funding to our troops and blame the USA for all the worlds problems; 3) Grant amnesty to illegal immigrants and set up healtchare and a college education for them… while blaming the USA for all the worlds problems; 4) Shut down the government for everything except hearings and investigations against Republicans and blame the USA for all the worlds problems; 5) Create a panic over global warming including scaring our children while blaming the USA for it and all the worlds problems. I could go on but it’s time to start my CHRISTMAS VACATION!!!
Megga ditto’s!!! FIRECRACKER!!!
Of Course the PC version would have to be FireSaltine
Swimming class – great comment!
These chowderheads will probably start teaching the Kama Sutra in sex ed class.
Taking the kids out of public school in 3…2…1
And exactly what makes Kelly an expert? Self appointed?
now justa dang minute there pall!…nothing wrong w/ a little Comic Sans.
As concerns more lessons…how about Chinese immigrants & their work ethic. You know, they come here, learn english, get a degree in 3 years, land a great gig, send money home to China, run for the local offices, tutor real math skills in the public school, never ask for reparation for being enslaved in this country a century ago to build the railroads.
Where are the parents of these kids? If I had a kid in this class or any class that had a teacher teaching them how to break the law….I would be on the school boards back so fast demanding this so called teacher find another place to spread her bull. But then I have a mob mentality and proud of it. Thank God for the blogs. Bloggers saved the election when Rather tried to take him down with his well documented case against Bush.
When is the lesson for driving drunk and killing innocent law abiding people.
It’s to bad one of the student’s that was denied entry by the teacher just kept submitting the app and refusing to illegaly enter but of course I’m sure they would have failed the lesson.
What an idiot teacher too….does it not occur to her that there is Spanish language (with different dialects) and many many different Spanish cultures. It seems to me that Spain should sue the school board for discrimination.
I suggest we each purchase/donate copies of this book to my local elementary schools:
“HOT HOUSE FLOWERS” written and self-published by Brooklyn criminal court judge John H. Wilson, comparing illegal immigration to dandelions which overrun a greenhouse.
Fight back.
Betcha the teacher is illegal.
There is no curricula with guidelines on teaching such crap, I assure you.
Normally, if you teach outside the curricula it has to be approved and signed by the principal.
He is equally as guilty.
The first fire of outrage should have come from the parents of the children. Aren’t these people paying attention to what’s being taught to their kids? I sure knew what was going on daily with my children. Wake up people!!
As concerns more lessons…how about Chinese immigrants & their work ethic. You know, they come here, learn english, get a degree in 3 years, land a great gig, send money home to China, run for the local offices, tutor real math skills in the public school, never ask for reparation for being enslaved in this country a century ago to build the railroads.
oops. messed up the quotes thing…
Olentangy Liberty High School curriculum guide.
Math: Creative Accounting and Your 1040
Chemistry: Meth Labs for Fun and Profit
Biology: Marijuana Container Gardens
English: Composing the Ransom Note
Phys Ed: Physical Fitness for Muggers
Driver Ed: Successful Running after the Hit
Industrial Arts/Shop: Circumventing the Home Security System
Home Ec: Cooking up Your Own Crack
Sex Ed: uh, no, not going there
The Thunder Run has linked to this post in the – Web Reconnaissance for 12/21/2007 A short recon of what’s out there that might draw your attention, updated throughout the day…so check back often.
Funny you should mention that…a particular member of my ‘Chinese’ Family…who accomplished all of stated above (#77), just got back from India where he was doing a demonstration for the company he works for…..brought me back a gorgeous scarf.
The Artisans of India are MASTERS! & the second American language is going to be Chinese!
O….& fk Cali.
After reading the comments,I have come to the conclusion,that(I am assuming students who take Spanish V are Seniors,) if they are,they should get a taste of the real world.
This is school,they know that.If we get them thinking about the problems we are leaving them WHERE IS THE HARM!
“mob mentality” typical leftist come-back- if you cannot argue facts –call people names.
I say turnabout is fair play: Fill out the actual paperwork from the school district to have Vieyra removed from her teaching position. After being denied, develop plans to remove her some other way…
Can’t help myself …
Quite simply this: we are (supposedly) a country of laws. What kind of signal does it send when we teach in a public school how to circumvent(read: break) a law of the land?
This disregard for law starts at home, well before the children enter school. Be honest now, how many of us have been taking our children somewhere, and conveniently disregarded the speed limit? That’s breaking the law. Setting such an example before our children starts us on the slippery slope of total disregard for the rule of law.
At the very least, our schools should promote obeying laws, not flagrant disregard for them.
Unfortunately, that isn’t the case, and it’s much more widespread than just this particular school and teacher, we all know that.
What’s the harm, when we have college professors who build their entire careers on false pretenses? When discovered, blame someone/anyone else for finding them out – not for admitting they made a mistake.
What’s the harm in telling lies about our troops? What’s the harm in telling lies about the police? What’s the harm in writing laws that we have no intention of ever enforcing?
Haven’t we had enough of that? The harm is that we have an entire generation of children who honestly don’t know the difference between right and wrong! There IS such a thing as right, and there is such a thing as wrong. If we don’t teach these differences and absolutes to our children – and DEMONSTRATE them, then the absolute harm is that we no longer have a country where the rule of law is primary. It becomes complete and utter anarchy.
Can you honestly say you want your children, and their children, to grow up that way?
ethanthom~
I don’t think the aim of this woman’s “lesson” is to inform them of the problems we (collectively) have created as a result of not properly addressing illegal immigration. If this were an exercise in “thinking like a criminal” in order to STOP said criminal activity, I’d have a different reaction to this story. But this isn’t a CJ class – it’s Spanish.
Yeah, that usually is how a right and wrong issue like illegal or legal gets to be.
Its pretty obviously wrong to be here against our wishes and taking the decision that belongs to us and giving it away to anybody that just so happens to be smart enough to take advantage of our generosity.
Ya think, people are fed up with the lies and the stabs in the back they’ve received for the past four decades.
A little well deserved righteous anger directed at wrong thinking and wrong doing is a good thing.
Ok, got it. Thank you for teaching us, the internet public, about perspectives and practices of Spanish-speaking cultures. Let me see what I have learned from her:
Spanish-speaking cultures have no respect for the rule of law. They will violate national sovereignty with impunity. Furthermore they will encourage others to break the law. they will go so far as to indoctrinate the children of native citizens to learn how to circumnavigate the law as reasonable behavior. They think the citizens of the USA owe them entrance, health care, banking services and social services. If they can not legally take these things from US citizens, they will willingly break the law to do so and continue to break the law until they want to stop.
Great lesson, Teach! If I didn’t understand a lot more about the world, people and cultures than your warped project teaches, your education plan would give me a lot of ammunition to become a racist against Spanish speaking cultures. *stupid liberals*
If this nation is so evil in wanting to protect its borders then why don’t we follow Mexico’s example of immigration? Mexico is so perfect in every way and we need to use it for modeling its social structure, its tax system, its health system and above all its job creation system. Another thing why are so many Mexicans and other Latins wanting to come over here where its so evil?