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How Low We Have Sunk
"The world is indeed turned upside down, or at least the United States is. Consider this story from Northern California:
"A Northern California school placed a teaching intern on leave for celebrating US Immigration and Customs Enforcement in a Facebook comment as a mob of angry locals threatened to damage her property.
"Sarai Jimenez, a special education teaching intern at MacQuiddy Elementary in Watsonville, endorsed the presence of ICE officers in her town in a comment on the social network last month.
“Yay!!! We need ICE in Watsonville!! It’s been getting out of hand,” Jimenez wrote.
"So a teaching intern expressed support, not for criminals, but for law enforcement. And it got her dismissed from her position. Supporting the rule of law isn’t just optional in this district, it is prohibited:
"Parents in the Pajaro Valley Unified School District, where 84% of students are Latino, expressed outrage at Jimenez’s support for ICE.
“You can’t just tell the world how you feel and not expect repercussions from people because of how they feel about ICE,” local father Jorge Guerrero told Lookout.
"Even if “how you feel” is supportive of our nation’s laws.
"MacQuiddy Elementary Principal Sara Pearman said Jimenez’s comment “does not reflect the values” of the school or district.
"She told families that the school is looking for a long-term substitute for Jimenez.
"So the “values” of the school district explicitly include lawbreaking, and supporting lawbreakers.
"How did we get to this pass? And what is the path forward? Honestly, I think it is hard to see how those of us who support the rule of law can continue to share a country with those who do not–a group that now numbers close to half of our population. What possible basis for a common citizenship is there, between us and them? I don’t think there is one."
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