UNT Conservatives' Mock Illegal Alien Hunt Stirs Resentment

Agape Press ^ | February 10, 2005 | Jim Brown

[WindOracle]

Scores of angry Latino students and others at the University of North Texas are demanding that something "be done" about a Young Conservatives' demonstration called "Capture an Illegal Immigrant Day."

The demonstration featured Young Conservatives members wearing bright orange shirts that read "Illegal Immigrant" on the front and "Catch me if U can" on the back. Passersby were encouraged to track down the mock "illegal aliens" around campus to win a prize.

Members of Latino fraternities and sororities were among those on the campus who were offended by the demonstration and confronted the conservative group members, accusing them of racism and hate speech. However, UNT Young Conservatives president Chris Brown says his group was simply protesting the violation of federal immigration laws.

"Our main goal was to educate our school and our community about immigration policies," Brown says, "but also to make people aware that it’s a growing issue, a problem, and to get it on the forefront of debate not only in our school and our state but in the country."

Latino students and groups from other area universities, along with representatives from the League of United Latin American Citizens, are calling on the University of North Texas to ban the Young Conservatives from the schools so-called "free speech zones." But according to Brown, his group is being attacked, incredibly, for holding a protest against lawbreaking.

"People said we shouldn't have our free-speech rights," the UNT Young Conservatives spokesman notes, "that we should have more restrictions on the free-speech areas, and that what we said was hate speech and racist." But all the campus group is guilty of, he insists, is "simply stating facts, stating figures about people breaking a federal law."

Michele Connole, publicity director for Young Conservatives of Texas, has also stated that the mock illegal alien hunt was intended to bring illegal immigration to the forefront of campus debate. According to a North Texas Daily news report, participants who caught the "immigrants" were rewarded with a candy bar and encouraged to ask the captive why the Young Republicans do not support President Bush's policies regarding illegal immigrant "guest workers."

[Howlin]

:-)

[theFIRMbss]

>angry Latino students and others at the University of North Texas are demanding that something "be done" about a Young Conservatives' demonstration called "Capture an Illegal Immigrant Day"

Well, now that's strange. Why
wouldn't they used the headline,
"Young Conservatives

Protest Illegal
Immigrants And Demand That
Something Be Done". Hmmm . . .

[TheBigB]

I support them 100%! It's a perfect way to illustrate the actual anti-free speech attitude of the left. They should put the University on notice that any attempt to intimidate them or shut them down in any way will result in a massive 1st Amendment lawsuit.

[jeremiah]

Good analysis, I am assuming the people were caucasian predominately, so how would the latinos assume they were mocking them?

[Smartaleck]

"For all their statements about it being racist, it is interesting that the Latinos associate illegal aliens with Latinos."

Bingo! Give the man some candy.

[No Longer Free State]

Who's the racist? The guy who portrays a white guy as an illegal alien or the hispanic guy who assumes the white guys are referring to hispanics?

[Boiling point]

I suppose if it were track down a burglar day and it offended other burglars, we should be sensitive of their feelings as well?

[ovrtaxt]

I agree.....I mean, who wears orange anymore?

Yes, tacky for sure.

[ovrtaxt]

...representatives from the League of United Latin American Citizens

Did you catch the name of this organization? These people are citizens of 'Latin America'?

[joe_broadway]

I wonder who would have been upset if they would have had an 'avoid HIV day', where you avoid those with orange shirts with 'HIV carrier' written on the back.

Would only the homos have been upset, after all, we have been told it is not a homosexual disease, it gets everyone equally, you are all at risk.

There is not a lawbreaking, illegal immigration problem. That is a myth put out by right wing fanatics and nazis and and and. Why would hispanics get upset, since there is no problem, or no group ignores immigration laws more than others.

I think they should search more little 80 year old women for switchblades at the airport and let those who look like Bin Laden pass right through...after all we can't discrim............................................................................................

[WindOracle]

[Killborn]

TROLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:)

[Skooz]

This is hilarious.

Amazing how these Latino activists cannot seem to ever see the word "illegal."

[joe_broadway]

Troll? That's not even funny troll.

[Killborn]

I'm just being silly. :P

You nail all the idiot lefty points really well.

No offense and nothing personal. :)