Student barred from counter-protesting illegals

I really had a problem with school systems endorsing students walking out of classes to protest the move in congress to stop illegal immigration, but I really have a problem with the school system stopping a student from counter-protesting legally.

A California student has filed a federal lawsuit claiming high school officials intentionally interfered with his right to speak out on the issue of illegal immigration.
Joshua Denhalter of Jurupa Valley High School in Mira Loma, Calif., alleges he was barred from holding a counter-protest after students March 27, mostly of Mexican-American descent, illegally walked out of school in protest of legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives that would make being in the country illegally a felony.
Denhalter, represented by the public interest firm Lively, Ackerman & Cowles, says that instead of walking out and being truant, he chose to organize a legitimate and lawful counter-protest during the lunch hour March 30.
Attorney Richard Ackerman called the school’s actions “one of the worst governmental censorship cases I have seen in over a decade of practice.”
“It is simply unbelievable that a school district would take sides with those who promote illegal activity over a student wishing to express his protected views in a traditionally and legally acceptable manner,” Ackerman said. “These officials must be severely punished for their actions.”

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