Child's Picnic Table

"Illegal-alien demonstrators this year introduced a new legal theory: because we're here, we have the right to be here. Protesters in Santa Ana, California, shouted:" We are here and we don 'going nowhere, "reports the Los Angeles Times. Anger at the widespread contempt for American law contained in such statements challenge readers a lot of public hostility toward illegal aliens. The Conservatives, with their respect for the rule of law, and the appreciation of its fragility, usually honor this visceral reaction, rather than dismiss it as an atavistic tribal impulse. Poverty and other grounds for victim status are not in the conservative worldview, create a license for violations of the law.

The rule of law ensures that like cases are treated similarly and unlike cases distinguished. But if the immigration protesters have their way, someone who has ignored all the legal procedures for entry will achieve the same status and benefits as someone who played by the rules. During debates on immigration by the Senate in the spring, proponents of amnesty argued it was unfair that people who worked for U.S. employers are forced to "live in the shadows." Left of the equation was the issue of justice for those who have waited years in their own country permission to enter lawfully.Schools spend enormous sums trying to improve the Hispanic graduation rate, even hiring consultants " awareness "for the prevention of dropouts. Santa Ana consulting approach is predictable multicultural. "We need to train teachers and students should be proud of where they come from," she said. But of course the Hispanic educational failure is not due to negligence-ethnic schools in Santa Ana glorifying the Hispanic heritage to a fault, but parents who do not seek to strictly enforce academic and do not bear corrosive influence people. In Santa Ana High School, I spoke with a former student, Julio, who had been expelled as a troublemaker in the ninth year, then returned briefly in the tenth year, but has not taken a single class. "Me and my friends ditching, our parents did not know." It is the cultural capital that immigrants bring with them that most determines their success, the work ethic of the poor Mexicans can not be forwarded to the education of their children, and we are all paying the price.Gang life to both Hispanic and black had immediately claimed last July when the Los Angeles Unified School District has opened a school to relieve top model. Despite amenities that rival those of private schools, a pool of Mac computers, a dance studio, a rubber track, and a professional chef he instantly gained the distinction of being one of the campuses most violent in the system. Gunfire rang out in front of the school the second day of classes, reports the Los Angeles Times, and three days after the opening ceremonies, the police arrested a student with an AK-47 on the perimeter of the campus . Fighting students attacked the security guards and tried to grab their arms in December, while the cops pepper-sprayed a dean of rupture of a gang fight in March. Students sell meth in the classrooms, graffiti covers the stairwell, textbooks and high-design tables covered picnic umbrella, and a trip to the bathroom requires an adult safety assimilation escort.Uncertain . Multicultural cheerleaders argue that assimilation is proceeding apace by pointing to the fact that virtually every third-generation Hispanics can speak English. Nevertheless, linguistic and cultural segregation among Hispanics more. The percentage of Hispanics living in Hispanic enclaves grew 39 percent in 1990 to 43 percent in 2000, reports Robert Samuelson, and foreigners increasingly from Mexico and Central America between the size areas of Spanish only grow. Livia, the single mother selling fruit on the Santa Ana Main Street.