After AL Immigration Ruling at Foley School with Hispanic Population, Students Cry, Withdraw,No-Show
After the Alabama Immigration Ruling, many students came to school Thursday crying and afraid said Foley School Principal Bill Lawrence.
“Nineteen of them withdrew, and another 39 were absent,” Lawrence said, the day after a federal judge upheld much of Alabama’s strict new immigration law, which authorizes law enforcement to detain people suspected of not being U.S. citizens and requires schools to ask new enrollees for a copy of their birth certificate.
Even more of the students—who are U.S. citizens by birth, but their parents may not be—were expected to
