Denver School System Bans Employee Travel to Arizona

[Chris_]

http://www.9news.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=137832&catid=339&GID=IxKr/acxbfidWqgAGuHAFmKJpO3ChPjIEoctsP0CgOA%3D

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.

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[Red October]

"This law directly attacks our core values of dignity. Our core values that we are a diverse and multi-ethnic community. And I think this law is unique in the way it attacks and undermines those deeply-held values," Boasberg said.

Mealy-mouthed bullshit like this directly attacks the core values and dignity of forgein nationals who became American citizens the right way, Mr. Boasberg. 

[longview]

Cut their federal funding.

Oh, shucks, I forgot, the feds don't support solely legal immigration either. 

[Ralph Wiggum]

Symbolism over substance.  Idiots.

[DefiantSix]

Who are these ****in' ****ers who ****in' think they can tell ANY American citizen where they can or can't ****in' travel WITHIN THE ****IN' 50 UNITED ****IN' STATES on their free time, whether they work for this ****in' ****ed up school district or not?

****ers are havin' delusions of adequacy...

[Duke Nukum]

What's more nazi: Defending our borders or controlling the movement of citizens around the country?

[littlelamb]

I would be seeking other employment if my employer put that on me

[DefiantSix]

I would be seeking other employment if my employer put that on me

I'm the nasty-assed SoB that would hire on to DPS, just so I could make a trip to Arizona, document the hell out of it, and then DARE them to fire me for travelling there. 

I hate attorneys, can't stand the litigious society that America has de-volved into, but I would be first in line at the court clerk's office, if any employer of mine attempted any kind of crap like this.

[IassaFTots]

Did I miss something?  I thought it said only work-related trips, which I read as DPS won't pay for any work related trips to AZ.  Now, I still think that is utterly stoooopid, but it didn't seem like they were banning their employees from going on their own. 

meh.  Denver is a whackadoodle nutbar kind of place.

[DefiantSix]

Did I miss something?  I thought it said only work-related trips, which I read as DPS won't pay for any work related trips to AZ.  Now, I still think that is utterly stoooopid, but it didn't seem like they were banning their employees from going on their own. 

meh.  Denver is a whackadoodle nutbar kind of place.

Work-related would seem to make sense to me as well, but I saw no clarification in the article that specified that little caveat, and I've never known the DPS system to make sense before, why should they be expected to start now?

[The Village Idiot]

So if a teacher wants to spend their own dime and go to Arizona and support the law, will they be fired?

Now that is standing up for liberty. lol.

[IassaFTots]

Work-related would seem to make sense to me as well, but I saw no clarification in the article that specified that little caveat, and I've never known the DPS system to make sense before, why should they be expected to start now?

True dat.  I thought I read work-related.  But with that being said, I wouldn't be surprised to see them put pressure on employees that travel to AZ.  That would be an interesting court case to be sure.  Funny.  Up until I went to Denver last year, I likened it more Red.  I don't liken it that way anymore. 

[The Village Idiot]

Denver School System NAZI's want their teachers papers, bans trips to Arizona.

[Texacon]

Wonder if they will keep them from traveling to Mexico where they have an almost identical law to the one AZ just put into place??

KC

[The Village Idiot]

Wonder if they will keep them from traveling to Mexico where they have an almost identical law to the one AZ just put into place??

KC

AZ law is nearly identical to US federal law, unenforced. Mexico's law is much much more restrictive

[Texacon]

AZ law is nearly identical to US federal law, unenforced. Mexico's law is much much more restrictive

This is what I was working off of;

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100429/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_mexico_migrants_1

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At present, Article 67 of Mexico's Population Law says, "Authorities, whether federal, state or municipal ... are required to demand that foreigners prove their legal presence in the country, before attending to any issues."

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KC

[The Village Idiot]

Mexican law also prohibits foreigners from attending or donating to anything political, such as protest rallies on May 1st. I think its a felony there. I don't think foreigners can get any kind of welfare in Mexico.

I also read somewhere that Mexico deports more people than the US does. lol.

[Texacon]

Mexican law also prohibits foreigners from attending or donating to anything political, such as protest rallies on May 1st. I think its a felony there. I don't think foreigners can get any kind of welfare in Mexico.

I also read somewhere that Mexico deports more people than the US does. lol.

That wouldn't surprise me.  You have a lot of folks from Central America who pass through Mexico to get to the US.

On a bike ride a couple of years ago we were going to cross over into Mexico but there was a problem.  2 of them actually.  2 of us were toting pistols.  As we neared the border there was a huge sign saying it was a felony to cross the border with a firearm and you would GO STRAIGHT TO PRISON.

I turned all 13 bikes around on a one way street and rode against traffic until the north bound lane opened up again.  It was interesting to see how many border agents came out of the building to watch 13 bikers ride against the flow of traffic!  LOL  Nope, nothing going on there!!

KC

[The Village Idiot]

On a bike ride a couple of years ago we were going to cross over into Mexico but there was a problem.  2 of them actually.  2 of us were toting pistols.  As we neared the border there was a huge sign saying it was a felony to cross the border with a firearm and you would GO STRAIGHT TO PRISON.

Only the drug gangs are allowed to have guns in Mexico. lol