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On the Civility of the Debate Over Immigration

By immigrationprof

On Tuesday in a classroom at Holy Family High School, in Broomfield, Colorado, a classroom discussion started with the seemingly innocuous question: “Why do students need to learn Spanish?” According to the Archdiocese of Denver, the conversation soon became about immigration and it turned ugly. ” At least one e-mail sent to 9NEWS in Colorado said that at least one student started a chant of “white power” and some said that all Mexicans should go back to Mexico. In the understatement of the day, a spokesperson for the Archdiocese of denver stated that “Immigration is an explosive topic right now. It seeped into the classroom.”

KJ