Denver Schools now boycotting Arizona

[HBARleatherneck]

http://www.9news.com/news/article.as...7832&catid=339


DENVER - The Denver Public School District is prohibiting employees from taking work-related trips to Arizona due to the state's crackdown on illegal immigration.



A written statement released by the district Thursday morning said DPS is forming a Citizens Advisory Committee to study the issue further.
DPS Superintendent Tom Boasberg is expected to make a public statement on the travel ban Thursday afternoon.
District spokeswoman Kristy Armstrong said Boasberg's order had the support of the board of education and was being done "in protest" of the illegal immigration law.
Armstrong said the district didn't want to "subject employees to search."
The Arizona law requires police officers who have made "lawful contact" with a person to "make a reasonable attempt" to determine that person's immigration status if there is a "reasonable suspicion" that person is an illegal immigrant.
Proponents of the bill say a driver's license or other government-issued ID provided to a police officer would be sufficient.
Armstrong said all DPS employees should have such identification but the district objects to them being asked to provide it.
Armstrong said every DPS employee undergoes a background check that includes legal residency. She said the district is "very confident" that it does not have employees who are in the United States illegally.
The Arizona law has sparked protests by a wide coalition of interest groups across the United States and in Mexico.
Published reports indicate travel bans similar to the DPS action have been enacted by the cities of San Francisco, Calif., and St. Paul, Minn. Newspaper accounts suggest similar bans are being considered by the cities of Los Angeles and Oakland.
When asked by a reporter, Armstrong could not immediately name another school district that has enacted a travel ban.

[Bailey Guns]

I'd be making a pretty angry phone call to Mr Doucheberg if I had kids in school in Denver.

I might anyway.

[cowboykjohnson]

^^^ +1

[Marlin]

You know, if they directed this type of passion towards educating the kids, the whole nation would be better off..

[Irving]

I'm curious how often anyone from DPS travels to Arizona for work related issues. Sounds like tough talk that won't affect a damn thing to me.

[Bailey Guns]

^^No...but I got my "anger buzz" back.

[Mtn.man]

BG,,, UHHHMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

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picture a waterfal flowers in the meadow......

[HBARleatherneck]

just for this, i am going to not only boycott the denver area, but kalifornia as well. two can play that game.

one thing that cracks me up about most of you....most of you are against socialized medicine, but send your kids to socialized school.

i unfortunately (because divorce) have no say in where my oldest goes to school. but my other four will never attend socialized (public) school.

to clarify my point. i wonder why people who are against the government using thier authority to govern healthcare for us, are for the government using thier authority to educate our citizenry. i know that in America socialized education is now the norm. but at what point in our history did it become this way? i know socialized medicine is the devil. but why? we are ok with the government meddling in our education (health of our minds) but not the health of our bodies? i was not singling out anyone. i was just making a statement.

[Mtn.man]

Got no kids,, sold em..

[Bailey Guns]

BG,,, UHHHMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

UHMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

UHMMMMMMMMMMMMMM


picture a waterfal flowers in the meadow......

That's what the ICE CREAM is for.