December 29, 2004

"[Kansas] Ed board member wants lessons on immigration drawbacks"

A state Board of Education member says students studying immigration should learn about the effect illegal immigrants have on crime rates, education costs and language barriers...

As one might expect, the media and "immigrants rights" groups are up in arms. The very thought that someone would not want to present immigration as a natural good with no faults at all!

Connie Morris, no stranger to criticism for her opposition to state-funded education for the children of illegal immigrants, says proposed curriculum on immigration should include study of possible drawbacks of illegal immigration.

"It's facts; it's history," Morris said. "Our children should not be subjected to inaccurate, one-sided dogma."

Morris was responding to proposed additions to state social science standards. Earlier this month, the state board adopted one of her suggestions on lessons regarding illegal immigrants, but it toned down her language, removing negative connotations...

One of those up in arms is from the Kansas Families United for Public Education. There's a whole page on their financial ties here.

The other is Elias Garcia, who had this to say on another occasion:

"Hispanics are doing the Lord's work -- we're populating this earth, basically," said Elias Garcia, executive director of the Kansas Advisory Commission on Hispanic Affairs. "Quite bluntly, let me say that we're not going anywhere. This is our home."

His other statements make it clear that among those "Hispanics" of which he speaks are a large number of illegal aliens. The reader is invited to imagine the uproar if a white person had said the same thing, especially referring to white illegal aliens.

Posted to Immigration2004 at December 29, 2004 11:12 PM

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