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Immigration Rallies Draw Thousands Nationwide
Hat tip: Drudge. EFL. LOS ANGELES (AP) - Thousands of people across the country protested Friday against legislation cracking down on illegal Congress is considering bills that would make it a felony to be illegally in the United States, impose new penalties on employers who hire illegal immigrants and erect fences along one-third of the U.S.-Mexican border. The proposals have angered many Hispanics. I wonder how many of these 'hispanics' were legal residents or had green cards..... The Los Angeles demonstration led to fights between black and Hispanic students at one high school, but the protests were largely peaceful, authorities said. In Phoenix, police said 10,000 demonstrators marched to the office of Republican Sen. Jon Kyl, co-sponsor of a bill that would give illegal immigrants up to five years to leave the country. The turnout clogged a major thoroughfare. Only 10,000? "They're here for the American Dream," said Malissa Greer, 29, who joined a crowd estimated by police to be at least 10,000 strong. "God created all of us. He's not a God of the United States, he's a God of the world." Kyl had no immediate comment on the rally. At least 500 students at Huntington Park High School near Los Angeles walked out of classes in the morning. Hundreds of the students, some carrying Mexican flags, walked down the middle of Los Angeles streets, police cruisers behind them. In Georgia, activists said tens of thousands of workers did not show up at their jobs Friday after calls for a work stoppage to protest a bill passed by the Georgia House on Thursday. That bill, which has yet to gain Senate approval, would deny state services to adults living in the U.S. illegally and impose a 5 percent surcharge on wire transfers from illegal immigrants. Both of which are damn good ideas.... Supporters say the Georgia measure is vital to homeland security and frees up limited state services for people legally entitled to them. Opponents say it unfairly targets workers meeting the demands of some of the state's largest industries. Teodoro Maus, an organizer of the Georgia protest, estimated as many as 80,000 Hispanics did not show up for work. About 200 converged on the steps of the Georgia Capitol, some wrapped in Mexican flags and holding signs reading: "Don't panic, we're Hispanic" Maus: eah... well we only have 200 illegal aliens here but tens of thousands didn't work - beleve us! AP Reporter: Okay. No need to verify.... and "We have a dream, too." Jennifer Garcia worried what would the proposal would do to her family. She said her husband is an illegal Mexican immigrant. "If they send him back to Mexico, who's going to take care of them and me?" Garcia said of herself and her four children. Perhaps you should have thought of that before you married an illegal? "This is the United States. We need to come together and be a whole." Anyone notice that... 1) They did not identify which of their 'protesters' they talked to were legal residents or citizens. (Personally I think they all were illegal aliens). 2) They did not interview anyone who agrees with the bill (and there are a lot of them -- most legal immigrants for example). They want to leave the impression that nobody supports it. 3) No mention of the existing legal means of immigration. They want the impression that there are none. Posted by: CrazyFool 2006-03-25 |
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