TPS board member E’Lena Ashley defends promotion of anti-immigrant rhetoric

A Tulsa Public Schools Board of Education member is defending her recent comments characterizing immigrant students as a potential security threat to other pupils and district employees. Speaking to the Tulsa County Republican Men’s Club on Oct. 9, E’Lena Ashley claimed that up to half of the multilingual learners in her east Tulsa school board district are not in the country legally and that those students could endanger the safety of others while on campus or on school buses. “We don’t know their agenda,” she said. “We don’t know their...