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My family and I are US citizens by birth. We live somewhere that many of our neighbors and friends are not.

Today I taught Tek Jr that if INS starts approaching them and their friends, TJ is to yell “la migra!” and run. When the thugs follow, their friends can run the other way. Doesn’t matter if Tek Jr gets caught; ain’t jack INS can do to them.

Teach your children well.

@tek - given the record of people arrested sometimes getting delayed in release or even "lost" for months in the system, as well as noting the abuses done by CPS in some places, while I sympathize with the spirit of this post, I don't really think it is necessarily good advice for parents to impart to their kids. Better to tell them to observe and report immediately what they saw, rather than endanger themselves - adults are the ones that can better choose whether to place themselves in between.

@TotalSonic My ancestors volunteered to travel to far continents to fight tyrants. I’ll be damned if I’m not going to protect my own neighbors from the same.

I would rather die protecting the people around me than cowardly allowing them to suffer.

@tek - that is an excellent attitude and more power to you. What I am trying to say is that we can make the decisions to oppose evils ourselves, and as adults more likely have a better level of experience to judge how best to effect that in a particular situation - but we still shouldn't encourage our kiddos to endanger themselves, given they might not be able to reliably navigate the situation in a safe way.

@TotalSonic Sure, and that’s why we discuss ideas in advance that can do the most amount of good for the people around us, with the least personal risk given our specific circumstances.

Total Sonic Media

@tek - well, obviously you know your kids better than I do, so do what you think is best. I just wanted to note that the advice in your original post might not be best for other parents to heed though.

@TotalSonic I didn’t advise anyone else to do that. I teach my kids to find ways to help and protect the people around them. Everyone should do that, whatever it may look like for their own situations.