by Debra Heine at American Greatness
The vice principal of a high school in Rhode Island sent an email to staff on Thursday soliciting donations to pay an illegal migrant student’s debt to a coyote, a criminal who smuggles illegal aliens across the U.S.-Mexico border. In the email, Stefani Harvey, Vice Principal of Mount Pleasant High School in Providence, described a coyote as “a group that helps people.”
“We have a student who came to America with ‘coyote,’ which is a group that helps people,” Harvey wrote. “This group gives you a time frame to make a payment of $5,000 to those who bring them to the states,” she continued. “Our student needs our urgent support to raise another $2,000 to reach his goal of $5,000 by February 1, 2023,” Harvey added. She concluded the email by requesting that staffers please consider donating to the cause on Friday. “Melanea will be around to collect money,” she wrote.
In her Twitter account bio, Harvey describes herself as “Black educator, queer, activist, poetry, Roxbury bred, save our streets, dismantle school to prison pipeline.”
Later Thursday, the Mount Pleasant High School Principal Tiffany Delaney sent out an email to staffers requesting that they disregard Harvey’s email.
“I was informed there was an email seeking financial support for one of our students,” Delaney’s email begins…
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