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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Thu May 24, 2018, 02:43 PM May 2018

DeVos comments on undocumented schoolchildren strike a nerve with Democrats

Immigration advocates are furious at Education Secretary Betsy DeVos after she told a House panel Tuesday that school officials should determine whether to turn in undocumented students to federal authorities.

"If a principal or a teacher finds out that a certain child is undocumented, or his or her family members are undocumented, we must do whatever it takes to ensure the student's safety and protection from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency," said Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D-N.Y.) "I am outraged and highly concerned following comments made by Secretary Betsy DeVos during yesterday's Education and the Workforce Committee hearing."

At the hearing, Espaillat asked DeVos at the hearing whether schools should report undocumented students to federal authorities, to which she responded, "... that's a school decision. It's a local community decision."

Democrats, in response, are holding a press conference Thursday to condemn DeVos's response.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/devos-comments-on-undocumented-schoolchildren-strike-a-nerve-with-democrats/ar-AAxIJrK?li=BBnb7Kz

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DeVos comments on undocumented schoolchildren strike a nerve with Democrats (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 2018 OP
K&R. It's becoming a reign of terror lunamagica May 2018 #1
I wonder, do you think our friends here and elsewhere realize what Eliot Rosewater May 2018 #3
I don't know, Eliot. I see people around me, in real life outside these forums. They seem to be lunamagica May 2018 #7
LIke everything else Putin has ordered since he stole the election, this person is a disgusting Eliot Rosewater May 2018 #2
Right, to call them animals would be an insult to animals lunamagica May 2018 #8
I'm reporting the entire Spanky administration to St Peter! world wide wally May 2018 #4
This is what I would expect from that her. BigmanPigman May 2018 #5
I keep expecting the worst and still awesomerwb1 May 2018 #6

Eliot Rosewater

(31,097 posts)
3. I wonder, do you think our friends here and elsewhere realize what
Thu May 24, 2018, 02:46 PM
May 2018

the SIXTY million deplorables want to do to ALL of us non cons?

Do we realize they are very violent and ignorant people who but for police and national guard would be shooting at us now?

lunamagica

(9,967 posts)
7. I don't know, Eliot. I see people around me, in real life outside these forums. They seem to be
Thu May 24, 2018, 04:25 PM
May 2018

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completely oblivious to what we are facing and it baffles me. For many of them latest Star Wars or Marvel movie takes a lot of their attention, analyzing every detail, but they don't want to bother with what is around them. You would say it is a coping mechanism, but the reality is that they don't know, and they don't want to know what's going on. When you try to engage them all you get is an eye-roll.

I have no idea what will take to wake these people up, but I'm afraid that when they do, it will be too late.

Eliot Rosewater

(31,097 posts)
2. LIke everything else Putin has ordered since he stole the election, this person is a disgusting
Thu May 24, 2018, 02:45 PM
May 2018

and filthy human being, NOT an animal, but filthy and disgusting human being.

awesomerwb1

(4,256 posts)
6. I keep expecting the worst and still
Thu May 24, 2018, 03:29 PM
May 2018

keep getting unpleasantly surprised at the lack of bottom with these corrupt and racist monsters.

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