Immigration advocates are urging Gov. Spencer Cox to veto HB209, which they say would exclude immigrant youth from extracurricular activities.
SALT LAKE CITY — Immigration advocates are urging Gov. Spencer Cox to veto a bill they say would exclude immigrant youth from extracurricular activities.would require students to present a birth certificate or, in the case of students who are homeless or not U.S. citizens, another state-issued or federally recognized form of identification in order to participate in sports.
Theresa Cervantes is a Utah mother of four. Her family has mixed-immigration status, with only one of her four children having been born in the U.S. Her two oldest children, both born in Mexico and undocumented, played soccer from a young age and eventually went on to recieve sports scholarships. She said soccer was the gateway that allowed both her sons, who are now adults, to attain a better future.
"The same documentation that an individual student would have to give in order to register in the school themselves are the documentations that are accepted to participate in athletic sports," he said. "In talking to these groups, what they said is that it was flagged by some national group that looked at it and they had reached out to this local group, and I think they just misunderstand how the bill works.
"The bill he sponsored does not have any clarity about what kind of documentation it is asking for in comparison to what he is saying," Montes said. "Undocumented individuals cannot have access to a state ID. Federal ID, which would be the other option, would also be impossible for a person who is undocumented to have access to. The form that he's talking about, the I-94, is a form that people who enter the U.S. through a port of entry can access.
That lack of clarity makes if difficult to know how many students would be impacted by the bill, she added. However, an estimated 5,000 undocumented immigrants under the age of 16 live in Utah, according to theTeuscher, in contrast, estimated that the number of immigrant children who would be excluded from sports because of the bill to be very low. He said he reached out to the Jordan School District, which is in his congressional district, to get a better idea of the possible impacts.
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