Iowa Public Radio
(Iowa)
By Rob Dillard
October 23, 2015
Latino
activists in Sioux City are gathering signatures to protest Republican
presidential candidate Donald Trump’s appearance at West High School
next Tuesday
evening. They plan to present a petition to the Superintendent of
Schools in Sioux City saying Trump should not be allowed to use school
property.
A
former student at West, Francisco Valadez, launched the petition drive.
He calls Trump a bully for his attitudes against immigrants and says he
doesn’t belong
in Iowa schools.
But
the Superintendent of Schools in Sioux City, Paul Gausman, says the
district followed school board policy in agreeing to rent West High to
the Trump campaign.
“I
don’t want to sound like I’m disrespecting those who have decided to
sign on to a petition, or anything of the sort,” he says, “but we don’t
make our decisions
by petition, we make them by policy, and I’m bound to follow board
policy, and of course the laws of the community and the state of Iowa.”
In
his petition, Valadez voices concern for the safety of Latinos in Sioux
City, pointing to confrontations outside past Trump campaign stops in
Ames and Dubuque.
For more information, go to: www.beverlyhillsimmigrationlaw.com
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