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UPDATED WITH SARAH PALIN, MEGYN KELLY, AND STUDENT VIDEOS: Illinois School Nixes Basketball Team’s Tournament Game Trip to Arizona Over Immigration Law



May 12, 2010 23 Comments ›› Pat Dollard

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Fox News:

Parents in Illinois are outraged over a move by a local high school to scrap its girls basketball team’s trip to Arizona over the Grand Canyon State’s new immigration law.

The Highland Park High School varsity basketball team has been selling cookies for months to raise money for a tournament in Arizona.

Now, after winning their first conference title in 26 years, the girls are being denied the opportunity to play in the tournament due to uncertainty over how a new Arizona law that makes it a crime to be in the country illegally will be enforced — and because the trip “would not be aligned” with the school’s “beliefs and values,” Assistant Superintendent Suzan Hebson told the Chicago Tribune.

Parents said there was no vote or consultation regarding the decision, which they called confusing, especially since they say no players on the team are illegal immigrants.

“I’m not sure whose values and what values and what beliefs they’re talking about, we were just going to Arizona to play basketball and our daughters were very disappointed to find out the trip had been canceled,” Michael Evans, a father of one of the players told Fox News.

Evans said if for some reason a player was worried about her safety, she could always opt to stay home from the December tournament without forcing the entire team to do the same.

“This tournament was voluntary, so students could decide not to go if they thought they were at some sort of risk of some sort of harm to themselves, but to penalize all the other girls because of some potential risk? I don’t understand it,” he said.

Evans said he also failed to understand why the school allowed so many other trips, but not this one.

“The school has sent children to China, they’ve sent children to South America, they’ve sent children to the Czech Republic, but somehow Arizona is more unsafe for them than those places,” he said.

“The beliefs and values of China are apparently aligned since they approved that trip,” he added.

One player, who said she is against the Arizona law, told Fox News she didn’t see how the tournament was related.

“It’s ultimately the state’s decision, no matter what I think. Not playing basketball in Arizona is not going to change anything,” she told Fox News.

But for now, Hebson says, Arizona is off limits.

“We would want to ensure that all of our students had the opportunity to be included and be safe and be able to enjoy the experience,” Hebson told the Tribune about the tournament. “We wouldn’t necessarily be able to guarantee that.”


  • wwtd

    schools are out of control. sports and schools don’t mix anymore. parents should put together a travel team of the same girls and do on their own.

    • YERMOM

      :beer: :beer: :beer:

    • YERMOM

      :beer: :beer: :beer:

      I would be willing to donate some money to those girls for bus tickets.

    • CPLViper

      Tell me where to send money for these girls to play in that tournament.

  • mike3481

    The local school boards across the country need a blowtorch aimed their way.

    The board members are elected and it’s quite often a stepping stone for a political career such as -> school board-> county supervisor-> state assembly-> state Senator->Congress etc.

    Political pressure from parents scares the shit out of school boards. :wink:

  • http://www.myspace.com/ssgduke ssgduke57_Retire

    Not since the Civil War have our Nation is so divided. And if we don’t do something to nip this Illegal Aliens crap in the bud then Civil War will come. God I hope I am wrong on the last quote I just made…I am a shame of everyone of you that support the Open Borders/Unrestricted Immigration! You bunch of Politically Correct Fascists that want this country to be destroyed by letting those who do not want to be Americans in! And for what?!! So you idiots can have your touchy, feely Socialist Utopia! Any Politician(s) that whore themselves to the Illegal Aliens for the cheap votes should be voted out of office NOW!! This is the last chance to take back America for if we don’t then either Civil War will happen or we whimper into submission and allow the United States to be broken up to many different 3rd World Banana Countries!!

    Those who do not stand up to corrupt Politicians deserve to have a Tyrannical Government…..

  • RexRedbone

    Here let Suzan know what a fucked up cunt she is
    shebson@dist113.org she is gonna get some new freinds

    • RexRedbone

      I forgot Highland Park the Police used to target Illegals also its more noted for being home of Obamas driving while Black http://www.lib.niu.edu/2000/ii000618.html

      Driving while black

      Charges that police target blacks and Hispanics
      for traffic stops have been grabbing the attention
      of lawmakers in statehouses throughout the country

    • CPLViper

      Thanks Rex … email sent … LOL

    • Tim Roesch – pseudo intellectual

      Here is my reply to both Suzane and ‘Dr’ Fornero titled (subject field) Child Molestation:

      Greetings:

      I have read a story concerning school administrators who feel it is necessary to play political games using students as pawns. That, in my opinion, is child molestation. If the story concerning the girl’s basketball team, Arizona basketball tournaments and school officials who can not read is true allow me to suggest you review your choice of profession.

      You can not use children to fight your political battles and call yourself educators. If your district allowed students to go to China then you can not hide behind your diversity and values by not allowing your basketball team to go to Arizona because you feel their law concerning illegal immigration violates your ‘values’.

      In China, there are wells polluted with the bodies of female babies.

      Hypocrisy should not be part of the resume of an educator.

      Stop being pathetic and start thinking of your students not your preliterate thoughts concerning a law you obviously didn’t read. Stop playing political games on the backs of your students.

      Grow up.

      Sincerely,

      Tim Roesch
      a real teacher

    • Kagiso Edwards

      Thank you Rex, email sent!

    • CPLViper

      Tim … I wasn’t as cordial. :twisted:

    • Tim Roesch – pseudo intellectual

      Mr. Viper, I wouldn’t have expected you to be. I thought I could be, if you didn’t mind, an appropriate ‘foil’ for what I can only imagine was a tectonic response from you.

  • jasjfarrell

    Boycott Chicago and Illinois!!!!!!

  • http://thecaptiansquarters.blogspot.com/ CAPT-DAX

    FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO THINK THAT ARIZONA IS EXTREME, THIS IS WHAT IS GOING ON JUST ACROSS THE BORDER AND THOSE SAME SAVAGES ARE COMING ACROSS EVERY DAY..

    IF YOU CAN’T HANDLE IT, FOR HEAVENS SAKE PLEASE DON’T LOOK

    Recent Pics from Camargo and Miguel Aleman

    This is Whitewing dove country. This is just a few miles from Roma, Texas

    http://republicbroadcasting.org/?p=8419 :gun: :gun:

    • JIM D

      NARLY DUDE! Seems zorro is alive and well in mehico.
      (notice the large Z carved in the belly fat of these poor souls) I can’t understand why the dems want to grant these fucking animals free access to the US? At least a bullet to the head Gotti style is more humane.

    • westcoastgirl

      Whomever did that to those people is a depraved SOB. I can’t understan the lack of humanity in some. We have to protect our borders. If the feds won’t do it and try to stop the states from doing it, what is left? Vigilanty justice?

    • Richwill

      The vigilantes during the 1800s did a good job of cleaning out the outlaws, especially in the west.

  • ji

    Highland Park is where I work.
    The only Mexicans I have seen, work at a car wash.
    Highland Park is 95% or more white.
    Some guy said he called HP school and someone told him they didnt want to offend the Mexicans.
    But its ok to offend the whites.

  • AZPatriot
  • kati butler

    Don’t worry Sue Hebson by the time of the tourny the law should be in full effect and most illegal immigrants on their way home making Arizona one of the safest States in the Union Whew it was hard work but somebody had to do it! as an educator you should be pointing out the rule of law!Oh did you know it’s illegal to be in the US without documentation read the Fed law it’s the same as AZ law.so guess your girls are in danger living in Ill as well?Do YOUR HOMEWORK IDIOT

  • Bobby E.

    The curse of liberal idiots at work.

  • http://www.dirtydozensbunker.com Sanders

    So, they want to punish the kids to make a political statement. Well, where are the parents in all this? All they have to do is raise holy hell at school board meetings.

    Oh yeah, they are too busy to attend the school board meetings. :roll: