Today several dozen students at my high school, John F. Kennedy High School, joined students from other High Schools around the state in walking out of class to protest H.R. 4437.

I did not even find out about the protest until after school today, so I wasn’t able to talk to any of the students participating in the protest as it was going on. But I did hear some students complaining about the bill in my Spanish class.

I became involved in the conversation and asked one student what his complaint with the bill was. He told me, “They want to send all the Mexicans back.” Wrong. H.R. 4437 would only send illegals of all races back to their home countries. But this student obviously didn’t know that. (more…)