Michelle and Hot Air Cowboy Killer are both reporting today that the Dallas School district has been providing false SS#’s to illegal alien teachers to allow them to teach in the district…

Years after being advised by a state agency to stop, the Dallas Independent School District continued to provide foreign citizens with fake Social Security numbers to get them on the payroll quickly.

Some of the numbers were real Social Security numbers already assigned to people elsewhere. And in some cases, the state’s educator certification office unknowingly used the bogus numbers to run criminal background checks on the new hires, most of whom were brought in to teach bilingual classes.

The practice was described in an internal report issued in September by the district’s investigative office, which looked into the matter after receiving a tip. The report said the Texas Education Agency learned of the fake numbers in 2004 and told DISD then that the practice “was illegal.”

It’s unclear how long DISD had been issuing the phony numbers, and district officials didn’t know Thursday how many had been given out. But the investigative report and interviews with DISD employees indicate the practice went on for several years before it was discontinued this past summer.

This should come as no surprise and long time readers of this blog will probably remember this story from February 2006 download Shutter dvd …

Dallas’ school district has a shortage of bilingual teachers.

DISD trustee Joe May knows where he can find a lot of people who speak Spanish fluently and are already in the country. And he’d like to put them to work.

But there’s at least one big hurdle: The school district cannot knowingly hire illegal immigrants because it’s against federal law.

Mr. May wants to amend that so the district can hire illegal immigrants who are college-educated and can qualify for the district’s emergency teaching certification program. The issue will be discussed at the school board’s policy briefing today.

But Joe Campos, executive manager of the League of United Latin American Citizens, said DISD should push to get the residency requirement waived.

“They can be good productive citizens,” Mr. Campos said. “Why not give them the opportunity?”

Mr. May believes it’s time to change laws to address illegal immigrants who have been in the U.S. for years.

“They’re basically American people when you get down to it,” he said.

So when they found out it was illegal they went ahead and did it anyway? Gee, so it would be absolutely crazy to suggest that allowing an absolute flood of illegal aliens from Mexico also brought Mexican style corruption right along with them, right?

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