A Texas school district has sent a warning to parents that border patrol agents could be boarding school buses to check the citizenship status of students.

  • BrikoXOP
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    526 days ago

    These tough guys border patrol agents must feel invisible against these harden criminals hiding in school buses.

    • @Psychodelic
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      326 days ago

      If I see a border patrol officer, I’m treating them like absolute shit.

      I once was a bit dismissive/rude to a friend of a cousin when I learned he had just moved to SoCal to work as border patrol. Initially, I thought it would be cool to make a new friend. I legit couldn’t help it. Come to find out a couple years later that he quit because he couldn’t handle the cruelty/racism. I somewhat regret not being a bit more friendly to him, especially considering he was one of the good ones (the ones that leave). If it were today, I’d maybe just be more clear in my reason for being rude. Communication and whatnot

      • Cousin Mose
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        76 days ago

        I’ve seen it while with my wife (from Mexico) crossing into the US (I’m white, from the US).

        In fact, they were going to turn her away from entering the US at a pedestrian crossing because the railing forced us to walk in single file and she was in front of me. It wasn’t until I spoke up and said “she’s my wife and a legal resident” that they even took her seriously.

        On a lighter note, their broken in Spanish is hilarious after spending any length of time in Mexico.

      • @[email protected]
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        15 days ago

        Save up addresses of people who still have their trump signs out and tell them you saw some Mexicans around there.

      • TacoButtPlug
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        26 days ago

        I would too, though. To take a job like that in the first place shows you have a misplaced set of morals.

  • @[email protected]
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    396 days ago

    Kids don’t even have papers to check. At most they have a school ID, which the school possibly gives to all students. Are they going to kidnap anyone who goes on a field trip without their birth certificate?

    • chingadera
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      236 days ago

      They’ll have that distinct illegal look about them, so no, no errors possible at all.

      • Miles O'Brien
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        26 days ago

        I wonder if they hand out shade cards or if they just hand out paper bags “for lunch” at the start of every shift…

    • @[email protected]
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      35 days ago

      I’ve heard that Mexican families are having their children carry a photocopy of their birth certificate on their person at all times.

      • @MothmanDelorian
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        15 days ago

        Im white and Mexican born a d my brother brought copies of his naturalization papers when he went to Canada.

    • @mipadaitu
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      25 days ago

      Birth certificate isn’t enough for trump, cause being born in the USA isn’t considered a citizen to him.

      You’d literally need a passport on you at all times to prove your citizenship, there’s no other form of ID in the US that can prove your status.

  • @[email protected]
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    136 days ago

    Good! Saving The Children means DEPORTING CHILDREN and NOTHING about Keeping them actually Alive or Happy or Healthy!

  • @shalafi
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    55 days ago

    A story about reports about a thing that may be happening.

    I doubt ICE wastes resources on this. It would be a clusterfuck for them as no child can prove his citizenship status. ICE has far easier targets. This is the sort of thing that happens way down the road when they’re running out of low-hanging fruit.

      • @Jhex
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        34 days ago

        Texas officials also said it was ok to ban abortion because they would end the posibility of rape… how is that going?

        • @[email protected]
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          14 days ago

          Yeah, they’re probably lying. But for the moment, there is no report of ICE actually raiding a schoolbus that I could find. Just one rumor in SanFran.

          I find that it is important to be correct in fact, even when you disagree with someone.

    • @[email protected]
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      35 days ago

      They’d only have to do it a couple of times to get potentially-affected folks to pull their kids out of school. Fear can be a goal.

    • Doom
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      15 days ago

      people been saying this for years. I don’t disagree but you don’t gamble with that

  • @[email protected]
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    45 days ago

    I drive a bus in Arkansas and I’ve been dreading this possibility for weeks, but telling myself there’s no way it actually gets to that point.

    • @[email protected]
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      4 days ago

      Tel them only parents of students (see below) are welcome to board. It’s a safety issue to prevent abductions.

      Even if it isn’t a rule it could sound plausible enough to slow them down.

      • @[email protected]
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        24 days ago

        That’s actually not true, legally speaking only district employees, district kids, and police are allowed to get on. But I get your point.

  • @workerONE
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    06 days ago

    Why are the parents of border patrol agents boarding busses? That’s not right

    • @[email protected]
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      25 days ago

      At first, I read it that way too. However, it’s supposed to be: (School) (warns parents) (of border patrol agents boarding buses […])

      • @[email protected]
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        35 days ago

        I think it was a joke about the ambiguity of English in this instance. I find it amusing to willfully misinterpret things sometimes; it keeps the despair off.