Girls’ basketball team cancels trip to Arizona
Lourdes Duarte
WGN News
May 12, 2010
HIGHLAND PARK, Ill.
The Arizona immigration law is affecting a girls’ high school basketball varsity team in Highland Park.
The team planned to attend a tournament in Arizona in December. They organized bake sales to raise money for the trip until the Highland Park High School administrators decided the trip was off.
District 113 Assistant Superintendent Suzan Hebson told the Chicago Tribune that the trip is off limits because of uncertainty about how the state’s new law will be enforced.
The immigration law requires police to question people if they suspect they’re undocumented.
Hebson also said that the law would not be aligned with the schools beliefs and values. That explanation upset parents who say US politics have no place in high school sports.
One of the players says there are no undocumented athletes going on the trip which is why she doesn’t understand the decision.
A group of parents and students said the school should have taken a vote so that they could all decide together if the trip should be cancelled.
