It’s no surprise it was from KHOU-11’s Shern-Min Chow:
It was a vivid civics lesson Monday as scores of students skipped class from Eisenhower and Humble high schools to protest HB 4437.
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Among those watching, Julian Hernandez and Jorge Mateo, seniors at the school.
“I’m in top 5 percent of my class,” said Milby student Julian Hernandez.
“I’m also taking AP calculus, taking AP government/economics, AP chemistry,” said student Jorge Mateo.
The 17-year-olds are both excellent students. Both have been accepted to UT Austin, the prestigious engineering and business schools. Both are illegal.
“It’s not my fault I was brought into the country. Why should I have to pay for decisions that were made before I was even born?” said Hernandez.
Jorge came as a baby. Today he lives in a tiny efficiency apartment with his mom. His American Dream may only come thru DREAM Act, for good students.
It applies to those brought to the U.S. more than five years ago when they were 15 years old or younger, who graduate from high school and have good moral characters.
The measure grants them conditional residency.
“They’re given six years to be here legally, to be able to work and either get a 2-year degree, two years towards a 4-year degree or two years in the military,” said Magali Candler, Tindall & Foster immigration attorneys.
Then, permanent residency and citizenship could follow.
There’s more, if you can stomach it, and you had to see it on the 10 o’clock news last night to get the full impact of how bad this piece of advocacy journalism was.
As for civics lessons, there’s another one that happens in November and our elected officials are well aware of it.
UPDATE: Now KHOU-11 is reporting that some protesting students have been arrested this morning. Hey! This could be another civics lesson! Maybe they’ll get extra credit when they finally go back to school.
ANOTHER UPDATE: KPRC-950 news says the protesters are walking down Main Street. Watch out for the Danger Train!
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