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Education Secretary Betsy DeVos under fire for saying schools can report undocumented students

    By Kendall Karson

May 24, 2018, 2:42 PM ET

 

Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos set off a furor over comments she made to members of Congress suggesting that schools should decide whether or not to report undocumented students and their families to federal immigration authorities.
 

The head of the Education Department shifted the responsibility of reporting undocumented students to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials to principals and teachers when she said on Tuesday, "it's a local community decision."

"I think that is — that is a school decision," DeVos said during her testimony before the House Education and Workforce Committee after Rep. Adriano Espaillat, D-N.Y., pressed her on the issue of undocumented students. "It's a local community decision and again I refer to the fact that we have laws and we also are compassionate and I urge this body to do its job and address and clarify where there is confusion around this."

 https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/education-secretary-betsy-devos-fire-schools-report-undocumented/story?id=55407265

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"Under fire" from whom? Certainly not from most American citizens.

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"Under fire" from whom? Certainly not from most American citizens.

 :amen:  :amen: and  :amen:
"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.

"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
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:amen:  :amen: and  :amen:

This headline is just one more example of the myriad ways journalists lie to us.

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This headline is just one more example of the myriad ways journalists lie to us.

Every day in every way possible!
"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.

"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
- J. R. R. Tolkien