News From the Border

Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Wednesday, May 17, 2006

Students to Challenge Immigration Tickets

ROUND ROCK, Texas (AP) -- Nearly 100 students ticketed for violating a daytime curfew while protesting national immigration policies plan to challenge the tickets in court.

Many of the students who pleaded not guilty Tuesday in Round Rock municipal court said they plan to argue that the curfew ordinance includes exemptions for free speech and free assembly.

The students were cited March 31 when they walked out of class to join immigration rallies. Round Rock's youth curfew ordinance requires students younger than 17 to be in school between 9 a.m. and 2:30 p.m.

Another 83 students pleaded guilty or no contest to their curfew violations and accepted either $200 fines or up to 32 hours of community service.

posted by missionaryman | 7:02 AM

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