Mayor: Adult Illegal Aliens With 'Graying' Hair Enrolled in Public Schools
Photo Credit: Lynn Public Schools
By Penny Starr.
The mayor of Lynn, Mass. says that some of the illegal aliens from Guatemala who are enrolled in her city’s public schools are adults with graying hair and “more wrinkles than I have.”
“They are not all children,” Judith Flanagan Kennedy told reporters at a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday.
“One of the things that we did notice when we were processing some of these students coming in was that they were adults,” she said.
She added that the federal government will not allow school officials to verify their ages, even though one of the students turned out to be 35 years old.
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Sen. Kaine: Obama Needs Authorization: ‘That’s What the Framers of the Constitution Intended’
By Susan Jones.
Sen. Tim Kaine, a Virginia Democrat, is among the growing number of lawmakers in both parties who say President Obama must get congressional authorization for U.S. military action in Syria and Iraq.
“And so he needs to come to Congress again with respect to the threat that ISIL poses. And he needs to explain it and crisply define what a military mission would be. And then …let Congress debate it and vote it up or down. That’s what the framers of the Constitution intended,” Kaine told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Tuesday night.
“It’s the right thing to do legally, it’s the right thing to do morally, because if you’re going to put servicemen and women in harm’s way, you ought to try to get a political consensus first, that the mission is worth it. And it’s the most likely way for things to work out well, after that kind of considered debate.”
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