
{"id":2767,"date":"2008-06-12T06:33:41","date_gmt":"2008-06-12T14:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=2767"},"modified":"2008-06-12T06:33:41","modified_gmt":"2008-06-12T14:33:41","slug":"letter-ag%e2%80%99s-bad-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2008\/06\/12\/letter-ag%e2%80%99s-bad-call\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter: AG\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s bad call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I regret the attorney general\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s opinion to deny admission of undocumented students to the community college system. I believe it is wrong to deny children who did not choose to come here themselves and who have worked hard, as we urge all our children to do, from reaching their full potential and becoming contributing members of society. I also question that the opinion comports with law of the land in the many U.S. Supreme Court cases pertaining to education. The U.S. Supreme Court has held for more than 100 years that aliens are persons within the meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment and cannot be denied equal protection of the laws.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe few students who attend our community colleges pay more than the cost of their schooling and are not denying citizens a place. I fear this chilling opinion will stir even more outpouring of hate against Hispanics in our state that continues 200 years of political discrimination and xenophobia for those who are different from us. Among them even our revered Benjamin Franklin who asked why \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the Palatine Boors [Germans] be suffered to swarm into our Settlements and, by herding together, establish their Language and Manners to the Exclusion of ours?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Sound familiar to today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s invective? But we all survived the German swarms, some would say to our great advantage.<\/p>\n<p>I hope this election season does not try to solve the immigration problem by hurting those innocent children who are trying to achieve the American dream.<\/p>\n<p><em>Eleanor Kinnaird<br \/>\nCarrboro <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I regret the attorney general\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s opinion to deny admission of undocumented students to the community college system. I believe it is wrong to deny children who did not choose to come here themselves and who have worked hard, as we urge all our children to do, from reaching their full potential and becoming contributing members&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}