Tulsa Sees Hispanic Student Exodus

Some Tulsa area schools are seeing Hispanic students leaving as a state law targeting illegal immigrants is about to go into effect, it is being reported today.

Principal Judy Feary at Kendall-Whittier Elementary says some students are seen getting into packed cars pulling a moving trailer and they don't return to class.

She says some are heading back to Mexico while others are going to other states. And she says school officials are hearing others are planning to leave in October.

A law passed earlier this year (see story below) takes effect November 1st which requires law officers to check the immigration status of people they arrest on felony and drunken-driving charges. The law is also intended to prevent illegal immigrants from getting jobs and many public benefits.

Celia Clinton Elementary Principal Cindy Taylor says other Hispanics are still in the area but aren't sending their children to school. She says they fear immigration officials will take the children.

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