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Q. What does the U.S. do with illegal aliens?
A. The U.S. puts them to work in the army.
B. The U.S. shoots them into outer space.
C. The U.S. puts them to death.
D. The U.S. sends them back where they came from.
This was one of the multiple-choice questions on a homework assignment, a story entitled “What Is an Illegal Alien?” recently given to a bunch of third graders at Chesney Elementary in Duluth, Georgia. (The teacher, by the way, was hispanic.) Apparently, nobody noticed how inappropriate this was until Kelly Avalos, the elder sister of one of the third graders, alerted a local TV station.
Some of us, apparently, have never recovered from our own experiences on the playground.
Okay, trolls. Have at it.
