Protest yields entrant-policy change

Source: Arizona Daily Star

The Tucson Police Department and the Tucson Unified School District no longer
will summon Border Patrol officials or immigration authorities to school grounds,
officials said Tuesday.

The announcement came hours after dozens of students marched against a family's
deportation that played out at two Midtown schools.

Nearly 100 students assembled outside Catalina Magnet High School early
Tuesday and marched Downtown to the Federal Building and eventually
Tucson police headquarters, protesting the process that allowed U.S. Border Patrol
agents onto their campus.

The student march was sparked by the Thursday deportation of a Catalina student
and his family after school officials found a small amount of marijuana in the
boy's backpack. The officials called police, who notified the Border Patrol after
learning that his family was living here illegally. The family's younger son, attending
Doolen Middle School, also was pulled from class and deported.

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TPD no longer will call Border Patrol to schools

The Tucson Police Department will no longer call the Border Patrol
to schools or churches when officers determine that suspects in their
investigations are illegal immigrants.

The decision was prompted by protests sparked by the deportation to
Mexico of a man and the voluntary return with him of his wife and two sons.
The family had told police they had been here illegally for six years.

The incident occurred after police were called to TUSD's
Catalina High Magnet School on Thursday because one of the sons
in the family allegedly was found in possession of marijuana there.

School officials said the 17-year-old also appeared to be under
the influence of a narcotic substance.


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