It's starting to look a bit like the students of Los Angeles have found a good excuse to bail out on school for a few days. "We're not ditching, we're protesting!"

From the Los Angeles Times today:

Many students waved Mexican flags as they poured out of schools and onto city streets.

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Protesters waved flags and signs and chanted, "Latinos, stand up!" [Note: most of the Latinos in America are not illegal aliens. It is the pro-open-borders advocates who are trying to make border security a racial/ethnic issue. -- The Editors]

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"This is unjust. This land used to belong to us and now they're trying to kick us out," said Sandra Molina, 16, a junior from Downtown Magnet High School.

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At the U.S. Capitol, more than 100 demonstrators wore handcuffs to protest a bill passed by the House last year that would criminalize illegal immigration. [Isn't illegal immigration already, um, illegal? -- The Editors]

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"No one should play on people's fears or try to pit neighbors against each other," [President] Bush said. "No one should pretend that immigrants are threats to America's identity because immigrants have shaped America's identity.

Big difference - America used to press for assimilation. Now the schools of the LAUSD and elsewhere are obviously filling these kids' heads with all kinds of "multicultural" and ethnic identity pap. These kids didn't learn to wave Mexican flags - placing ethnic identity above American identity, or that "This land used to belong to us...", or even about the existence of a proposed immigration bill in C0ngress on their own. The supposed adults in their lives are are feeding this stuff to them. The president is right, (legal) immigrants are not a threat. But appeals to ethnic separatism are.

On a somewhat related note, "in the LAUSD, just 39 percent of Latino students and 47 percent of African-American students graduate in four years."

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