Garland, Texas: Illegal Aliens Teaching Illegal Aliens

Re-posted by Nicholas Stix

Thanks to reader-researcher RC, who writes:

They are only needed because the Garland school district has been overwhelmed by illegal aliens and their American (sic) children.

Treason Lobbyists love to assert that mass immigration creates new jobs for Americans. The reality is that it doesn’t; rather, it creates new jobs for other aliens, because employers merely extend their discrimination against Americans one step further.

Some commenters noted that this story was woefully underreported, with all sorts of important information left out, as to the legal status under which these people came here. But ultimately, one fact stands out: There was no need to import any teachers, much less teachers of ESL and Spanish.

Why do school districts do this? 1. Anti-Americanism. It’s all the rage. Employers all over the country, in many different fields, hate hiring Americans. 2. Churning the labor pool. NYC’s just retired mayor, Mike Bloomberg, was big on this.

Hiring new teachers, while laying off experienced ones, saves a school district a fortune, and gives it greater power over labor. New teachers get paid much less in salary and benefits, and can be fired at will, whereas experienced teachers get higher wages, bennies, and are harder to fire.
 

Garland ISD teachers say they face deportation
By Teresa Woodard
WFAA
Posted on February 25, 2014 at 10:07 P.M.
Updated yesterday at 10:40 P.M.

GARLAND — The applause lasted a long time after one Garland teacher left the podium, clearly shaken by the emotional speech he had just made.

"I feel betrayed, grief-stricken, and panicked," he told members of the Garland school board. On behalf of a yet undetermined number of Garland Independent School District educators who could face deportation, he asked for the board's help.

"Defend us, and please send a letter saying we've done nothing wrong," he pleaded.

Emotion overcame him and with tears flowing, he quickly left the board room.

Colleagues Fransisco Marcano, an English as a second language teacher in the district, and Adolfo Torne, a GISD Spanish teacher, said they know exactly how he feels.

"We've all been crying," Marcano said. He came to America in 2001 from Venezuela and began teaching in Garland in 2007. Adolfo moved from Colombia and became a GISD teacher in 2005.

They and several other GISD teachers say they placed their faith in a program that would help them on a legal path to citizenship. As they worked, they also paid into the program.

"We invested what we had — and even what we didn't have — to pursue our dreams, just like any other dreamers who come here to pursue dreams," Marcano said. "Everything fell through for reasons that are beyond our control."

The Garland ISD's foreign teacher program is under investigation. And some of the teachers in the program are being told they need to leave the country.

"Now we find out we have to leave, with no foundation, no path to follow," Marcano said. "Basically, I'm speechless."

Torne agreed. "We love this country," he said of his family. "This is our country, too. So we want to stay here. And my passion is teaching, and when somebody tells me I need to cut what I really want to do, that's really sad."

The school board members listened to the public comment, but did not respond. Because the item was not an official agenda item, they couldn't discuss it.

It was standing room only at the board meeting, with several people there to support the teachers, and other members of the public there to complain about a proposed $300 million bond issue.

Neither Torne nor Marcano could say for sure what the future holds. They are very worried, they said — for them, their families, and their students.

E-mail twoodard@wfaa.com