The students had a role-play project: assume a Latino identity, build an imaginary life in your home country and develop a workable plan to immigrate to the United States.

Try it legally, Erica Vieyra told her 40 senior Spanish students at Olentangy Liberty High School. Fill out the correct documents, follow the proper steps. And then, after they spent days completing the actual paperwork from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, she took out her red ink pad and stamped a big, fat DENIED across every request.

Now, she told the students, come illegally. Forge your documents, find a way across the border. Then, research real ads and find a place to live in Columbus. Figure out what it would cost, how to get food. Plan how to survive.

By teaching our children that it’s harder to obey the law than break the law, what kind of message are we sending them?

Are your local schools any different? Call and write your local schools. Get involved in your PTA. Elect people who favor school vouchers, and use The Mailbox to write your legislators to push for a school voucher bill. Ensure your tax dollars are not being used to fund this kind of indoctrination passed off as “education”.

The full article is here: The Columbus Dispatch : Students struggle as immigrants do

Just sad:

A Boston firefighter is mending from what could have been deadly stab wounds he suffered early yesterday morning when he was allegedly jumped in East Boston while off duty by a group of Hispanic males who told him they “don’t want any gringo here.”

Though police are not classifying the incident as racially fueled, the Boston Police Department’s Community Disorders Unit is investigating.

Full story here: Print Story : Boston firefighter stabbed - FireRescue1.com

If you want to see what America will look like in about 10 years if the current direction continues, cast your eyes across the pond to France’s riots.

A snippet:

France does not like to see its recurrent, and some say worsening, bouts of urban violence through the prism of race or color. Rioters are often described simply as “youths,” while poor projects with large concentrations of immigrants are “sensitive urban zones.”

In the name of equality, France has so idealized the melting pot that it has made its minorities invisible—on paper at least. The country does not compile statistics on the foreign-born or their French-born children. France, a nation of 60 million people, has the largest Muslim community in western Europe but does not know how many Muslims live here. The number is estimated at about 5 million—though some experts disagree.

Let’s see here… immigrants who fail to integrate into the local culture? Check. A government who turns a bind eye to the problem for fear of offending said immigrants? Check. Media that — for the sake of political correctness — re-word things to be more “sensitive” and less “inflammatory”? Check.

And how is that any different than what is happening here in the U.S. with our llegal immigrant problem? If we don’t make some changes and soon, we will likely be headed for the same fate as France.

The full article can be found here: Riots Point to Racially Divided France