Students Ticketed For Protest Marches: Charges Dropped
The prosecutor in Round Rock has no guts. Several weeks ago, during the pro-illegal immigration rallies that took place across the nation, almost 100 students from Round Rock, Texas were ticketed for violating the city’s daytime curfew by participating in the protest marches. Now, it seems the prosecutor does not have the guts to follow through with the charges.
Some Round Rock students no longer face charges they violated the city’s daytime curfew by participating in immigration protests in March.
A judge dismissed the cases of five students after prosecutors filed motions to drop the charges earlier this month.
Round Rock City Attorney Steve Sheets says prosecutors would have had to prove that the students were not exercising free speech rights.
Sure, the students were exercising their free speech rights. That should not ever be in question. The timing is the issue. Because the state has a vested interest in making sure students are in school roughly from 8-4 every weekday during the school year, laws are on the books to make it a misdemeanor to miss school. When the students decided to violate the law and skip school to demonstrate against the proposed immigration laws, the students should have been charged with vagrancy. Letting them get away with this is only enabling this behavior. If not in real life, where are these students going to learn about being accountable for their actions?
Ernest Saadiq Morris of the Texas Civil Rights Project says the students should never have been charged in the first place because they were exercising their rights to free speech during the protest.
The nonprofit group is representing most of the students for free.
From what I can tell, the Texas Civil Rights Project focuses on a range of issues from education Title IX funding in schools to civil rights for illegal aliens.
The Texas Civil Rights Project (TCRP) promotes racial, social, and economic justice through education and litigation. TCRP strives to foster equality, secure justice, ensure diversity, and strengthen communities. TCRP was founded in 1990 as part of Oficina Legal del Pueblo Unido, a non-profit community-based foundation located in South Texas.
TCRP is one of the groups who is suing El Paso for taking part in Operation Linebacker which is responsible for rounding up many illegal aliens along the border. In the case in El Paso, Sheriff stopped a bus for crossing over the yellow line. He ticketed the driver and detained six undocumented aliens. TCRP argues that the bus driver did not cross over the line, therefore the stop was illegal. The argument the group makes in this case is bogus on so many points, but the suit is not about right and wrong, its about harassing the county into dropping its enforcement of the border through fear and intimidation. This group is 100% purely on the side of illegal aliens coming into this country.
I just hope somebody along the way has the courage to stand up to those who advocate breaking our laws. Organizations like TCRP are doing a huge disservice to our state by championing those who break our laws.
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