Another reason to follow in Arizona's and Alabama's footsteps on immigration.

Because Federal governments, and at least in our case, state and county governments, refuse to enforce immigration laws, it's clear that states need to suck it up and implement the laws the Fed is refusing to implement.

I, for one, am heartily sick of being a destination resort for illegal aliens.  Politicians at all levels who are opposed to these kinds of laws need to re-evaluate why they are there and put the people ahead ahead of themselves.

Reports of Hispanic Students Vanishing From Alabama Schools After Immigration Ruling

Published October 01, 2011

| Associated Press

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Aug. 17, 2011: Students sit in the gym at Crossville Elmentary School in Crossville, Ala. Despite being in an almost all-white town, the school's enrollment is about 65 percent Hispanic.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. –  Hispanic students have started vanishing from Alabama public schools in the wake of a court ruling that upheld the state's tough new law cracking down on illegal immigration.

Education officials say scores of immigrant families have withdrawn their children from classes or kept them home this week, afraid that sending the kids to school would draw attention from authorities.

There are no precise statewide numbers. But several districts with large immigrant enrollments -- from small towns to large urban districts -- reported a sudden exodus of children of Hispanic parents, some of whom told officials they planned to leave the state to avoid trouble with the law, which requires schools to check students' immigration status.

The anxiety has become so intense that the superintendent in one of the state's largest cities, Huntsville, went on a Spanish-language television show Thursday to try to calm widespread worries.

"In the case of this law, our students do not have anything to fear," Casey Wardynski said in halting Spanish. He urged families to send students to class and explained that the state is only trying to compile statistics.

Police, he insisted, were not getting involved in schools.

Victor Palafox graduated from a high school in suburban Birmingham last year and has lived in the United States without documentation since age 6, when his parents brought him and his brother here from Mexico.

"Younger students are watching their lives taken from their hands," said Palafox, whose family is staying put.

In Montgomery County, more than 200 Hispanic students were absent the morning after the judge's Wednesday ruling. A handful withdrew.

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To me, it's a black and white question. Part of it resides in the bizarre, but Constitutional construct that must be addressed: if you're born here, you're a citizen. The "destination resort" aspect of anchor babies must be eliminated, and this "through no fault of their own" aspect where children sucking up our increasingly scarce resources... depriving American citizens of college educations, for example.... because here in Washington State, illegal aliens get in-state tuition....must be ended?

No... it's time to follow suit. It's time to get politicians into office who are more concerned about us then those who don't even belong here... unlike so many at the Federal, State and County level.