Teens Deported for Skipping School
10:18 H | Topics: Children - Controversia - Education - Immigration - Texas
When I was a teenager, skipping school meant detention, cleaning lockers, and a beat down from my mom. 17 year old twin hermanas Brisa and Lluvia Amante (yes, Breeze and Rain Lover) skipped school once and went to truancy court. They were fined and sent on their way. But when the sisters skipped school again they ended up being deported to El Salvador.
The truancy judge says that he didn't intend for the twins to get deported, just to teach them a lesson by handcuffing them and sending them to the county jail. After all the girls were kind of laughing the whole thing off. But when you put kids in the (in)justice system, (in)justice happens.
The officer called me [the judge] and said I wouldn't have to worry about them skipping school anymore because ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) placed a hold on them and was deporting them back to El Salvador."
Via / Citizen Orange
Image Via / News Channel 2 Louisiana
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1. Julia ~ Friday, Feb 29 2008 | 09:34H:
Truancy court? Handcuffed & sent to county jail? What the heck is going on; it's skipping school, not robbing banks. This level of angry vengeance, out of proportion to the "wrong" that's committed, is crazy. How about detention, calling home etc.....it's not a bloody crime to skip school.
2. Maegan la Mala Ortiz ~ Friday, Feb 29 2008 | 10:42H:
That's exactly the point. The criminalizing of young people, especially young people of color, has huge consequences that this case exemplifies.
3. EYES OF TEXAS ~ Friday, Feb 29 2008 | 12:11H:
Rule of law that can not be shrugged off or ignored. The law is on the books, for better or worse, and must be enforced no matter the circumstance. If a person is in the U.S. illegally, they must understand that deportation is alway a possibility. No, it was not bank robbrey which there is a law against, but a law had been broken by these teens by being here illegally. We can not pick and choose which laws to enforce and which to ignore because of personal situations.
4. peace ~ Friday, Feb 29 2008 | 21:52H:
could it be that her parents were illegal and had other pending offenses, nah vivirlatino would never spin a story about 'undocumented immigrants of the hispanic type' i guess they saw some latina student skipping school and thought,,,"Let's get that little bugger" This is a reliable news source,, NOT
STOP THE BS Vivir latino
5. Maegan la Mala Ortiz ~ Monday, Mar 03 2008 | 08:59H:
Nice spin but that's nowhere near the spin I played in the post. Even if their parents had "offenses" (which could be anything from jaywalking to drugs), that isn't the point. The point is that these juveniles who did something well juvenile were treated as serious criminals, put through the system and the system did its work.



