Deportation fears prompt exodus from Texas City's schools.Irving, Texas Irving (pronounced 'er-ving') is a city located in the U.S. state of Texas within Dallas County. According to the 2000 U.S. Census, the city population was 191,615; the 2006 estimate was 201,927 according to the North Central Texas Council of Governments, and 196,084 according to , Independent School District Superintendent District Superintendent may be:
The Mexican Consulate recently began warning Mexican citizens to stay out of Irving because the city's police department has been cooperating with federal immigration authorities immigration authorities npl → servicio sg de inmigración immigration authorities npl → service m de l'immigration to identify illegal immigrants who have been arrested so they can be deported. Irving police have turned over more than 1,600 people to immigration immigration, entrance of a person (an alien) into a new country for the purpose of establishing permanent residence. Motives for immigration, like those for migration generally, are often economic, although religious or political factors may be very important. officials since the program began. In an October 3 interview with the Dallas Morning News, Irving Mayor Herbert Gears defended the fairness of his city's policy, stating: "If they're not being booked into our jail, there's nothing they should be worried about." Mayor Gears assured parents that they need not fear that immigration officials or police would pick up their children from school campuses. Nevertheless, he stated that many Irving residents support the City Council's immigration policy, because illegal immigrants overburden social services and overcrowd o·ver·crowd v. o·ver·crowd·ed, o·ver·crowd·ing, o·ver·crowds v.tr. To cause to be excessively crowded: a system of consolidation that only overcrowded the classrooms. public schools. |
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