John Hope Bryant: “we began considering immigration legislation after the Jordan Commission gave us a report outlining the problems and…”

“we began considering immigration legislation after the Jordan Commission gave us a report outlining the problems and proposing to us a set of bipartisan solutions. In no part of the Jordan Commission report, or in any other study, for that matter, that is credible, has anyone ever found that the fact that an illegal alien child might be able to get into school causes people to leave their homes, walk, ride, swim, if necessary, across very, very threatening territory to get into the United States. No study has indicated those people come here because they think they might be able to get their kids into school. In fact, the police agencies, the educational agencies, every expert that has looked at this problem has said this is a mistake. Do not be led by hot rhetoric on the part of those who see a political opportunity, in my view, to make people think that somehow this is a solution. Instead, be guided by common sense. There will be no impact on illegal immigration if this passes. There will be an impact on our communities because notwithstanding the attempts to water it down, the fact is the school districts would have to check the citizenship of every single child. They do not have the resources to do that. And if there is one child in a family that cannot come to school, none of them will come to school. We need every kid out there being in school.…”