School locked down as migrants pass by
Posted: 01/21/2012
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By: Associated Press
NOGALES - A school in southern Arizona was put on lockdown after a group of apparent illegal immigrants was spotted walking near the campus.
Students at Continental School in Green Valley were ushered into their classrooms and kept inside while Pima County sheriff's deputies and the Border Patrol was called.
Sheriff's spokeswoman deputy Dawn Barkman tells the Nogales International ( http://bit.ly/ADMZGj ) that the group of men and women had not stepped inside the school fence and seemed wary once they realized they were being watched.
Superintendent Virginia Juettner of the one-school district says students were kept inside for only about 15 minutes after a PE teacher spotted the migrants at about noon on Wednesday.
They were last seen headed for a neighborhood.
Juettner says she didn't hesitate to use the school's lockdown procedure.
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