Posted on 03/25/2006 4:34:12 PM PST by calcowgirl
Joining what some are calling the nation's largest mobilization of immigrants ever, hundreds of thousands of people boisterously marched in downtown Los Angeles Saturday to protest federal legislation that would crack down on undocumented immigrants, penalize those who help them and build a security wall on the U.S. southern border. Spirited crowds representing labor, religious groups, civil-rights advocates and ordinary immigrants stretched over 26 blocks of downtown Los Angeles from Adams Blvd. along Spring Street and Broadway to City Hall, tooting kazoos, waving American flags and chanting "Si se puede!" (Yes we can!). The crowd, estimated by police at more than 500.000, represented one of the largest protest marches in Los Angeles history, surpassing Vietnam War demonstrations and the 70,000 who rallied downtown against Proposition 187, a 1994 state initiative that denied public benefits to undocumented migrants.
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Many of the marchers were immigrants themselves — both legal and illegal -- from Mexico and Central America. Some had just crossed the border, while others had been here for decades. There were construction workers and business owners; families with young children and people in wheelchairs. Throughout the afternoon, protesters heard speakers demand a path toward legalization and denounce HR 4437, which would tighten border enforcement and crack down on employers who hire undocumented workers.
The rally was organized by numerous unions, religious organizations and immigrant rights groups and publicized through Spanish-language media, which encouraged participants to wear white to symbolize peace and bring American flags. The mostly peaceful march stretched over 26 blocks, shutting down streets and tying up traffic around downtown for hours. Police estimated the crowd at 500,000... Participants said the massive mobilization shows that immigrants' voices must be heard and that they are contributing to the country's economy.
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Noticed on C-Span's weekend program listing: NM's Gov. Richardson recent taped speech in New Hampshire...the Road to the White House '08 series! Looks as if Richardson thinks being Hispanic will mean something to dem.'s this time around. (Hill, take note -- now there's a nightmare ticket.) Politicians of both parties selling us down the river so fast your head's spinning. This nightmare along with McCain's idiotic bill negating free political speech -- amazing the juxtaposition of out and out illegal acts. Well, they say nothing happens by chance and we get the govt. we deserve. Maybe it's time to clean house.
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Not just 11 million illegals. More like 24 million with more pouring in over the border every minute of every day. And Bush is meeting in Mexico with Fox to figure out a way to 'persuade' Mexicans to go home. What a laugh. Let's see, Fox gets 9 or 10 billion a year in remittances, so we'd have to up the ante and offer billions more to returning Mexicans. Unfortunately, the money would be stolen at the border by Mexican police and army, so they'd come back to the US.
Plus, how are you going to keep them down in corrupt Mexico after they've seen what normal US life is all about? We have no choice but to force Fox to change Mexico for the better. (Think of Mexico as Iraq or Afghanistan. I bet the idea's been bandied about in the White House basement more than once.)
That picture says it all: Mexican minister's recent statement -- "We are integrating with the US and there's nothing you can do about it."
Silly argument - Latinos/Hispanics ARE Caucasian.
Bingo your post, plus Hill will be taking 'things away from you for the common good'. And we'll be in Africa, to fix that unhappy continent -- so fast your head will spin -- US forces will be under UN control, along with Kofi's large, thieving hand in every US taxpayer's pocket. (I left out Iran and NK, whose ambitions might make all this moot or delay things a bit, but Mexico's already moved into the spare bedroom and demands kitchen privileges.)
A great many kids today launch, but come home again. They're the boomerang generation...because they can't find jobs that pay enough to keep body and soul together, let alone raise a family. That sucking sound...outsourcing...CAFTA, NAFTA...had profound repercussions.
Oh, yes, good old Lowell, and Lynn, Lynn, the city of Sin!
I voted for Bush twice, too. He was the better man both times, but this whitewashing of globalization, the aims of the CFR, One Happy Hemisphere and what it really means...should never, ever have happened. We should have had an open debate on this years ago and given the American voter the last call on national policy. Bush has a good heart, and you can see he's trying to make a better life for everyone...as in Iraq, for instance. But the road to you know where is paved with good intentions, and what about collateral damage? Innocent Americans who get robbed, killed by illegals driving the wrong way, or drunk, or who lose their jobs, whose rights are trampled, who end up paying for illegals from cradle to grave. What about them? (They vote for the other guy next time.)
I caught Newt Gingrich on Rush months ago, talking about illegals. He laid out a comprehensive plan, workable, to send them all home, let them line up for green cards saying they'd have a job, and apply to return. It's sensible, maybe expensive in the short run, but we have to gain control of the border. It was the first time I'd heard anyone propose a solution that would work. This was a good six months ago, and here we are, nothing much has been done, and they're taking to the streets of LA. Mob rule.
Fox is getting more than that these days. It was double that amount last year.
Bank of Mexico Reports Remittances Sent Home by Mexicans Living Abroad Rise to $20B in 2005
The Bank of Mexico reported remittances sent home by Mexicans living abroad rose to $20 billion in 2005, a 17% increase over the year before. Remittances have been climbing steadily for years, surpassing the amount the country receives from tourism. Approximately 11 million Mexican natives reside abroad, with 98% of that number residing in the United States.
Foreign income in 2005:
Source: www.moneysense.ca/news/company_news/shownews.jsp?content=D8FFTN2GG_ap
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Look I understand youve had good experiences with Mexicans but to say that a protest against enforcement of immigration laws consisting of possibly 500,000 does not contain a significant portion of illegals is not a reasonable position. The legislation affects them, of course they are there.
Pretty harsh words coming for a Sunday morning but G**AMN all of you politicians for selling us down the river.
The problem is that the press has NOT been using the word "illegal" and instead using euphemisms. Now, people hear something like "resident alien" and think "resident alien = undocumented worker = illegal." The good are getting lumped in with the bad because of the newspeak.
Oh, boy, $20 billions. How does Bush get Fox to 'persuade' his citizens to come back home? Or, perversely, how do the American people get control of their borders, their country, their birthright, culture, society, common language? V.D. Hanson, isn't anyone in the White House listening to you?
Mexico has become the fifty-first state, like it or not, and it's worse than Louisiana after Katrina. Or the US is miniMexico. You decide. Nothing like being handed a fait d'accompli. That's what really irritates. Why weren't we accorded the honesty of a national debate on immigration policy and subsequent ramifications in the hemisphere. Mass migration, good-bye sovereignty, etc.. Someone on this thread aptly compared us to France allowing in all those Algerian Muslims for cheap labor. But they're only dealing with, what, five or ten million Muslims? We're coping with 24 million Hispanic illegals.
Can anyone explain something to me? These people left the craphole country of Mexico because they couldn't find jobs or something. Hence the cry of, "We just want to work!" Now when they come to the US, they protest in the land of plenty. So somebody explain to me why there aren't protests like this is Mexico over how crappy it is?
I don't think any of this is about anything they say it is. I think it is really about the things that are not reported, when Mecha-types talk about how "anyone of European descent has been illegally in the U.S. since 1492." (The idiocy of that statement coming from a descendent of Spaniards amazes me.) I think it all has to do with the Reconquista and not much to do with actual jobs. If it was just jobs they were protesting over then they could do it in Mexico. Or would the Mexican police just shoot them?
What I can't understand, is the fact that many of these people are waving mexican flags and chanting "mexico". Why are they showing loyalty and support for the country they are trying to make it easier from which to escape? How about showing a little bit of loyalty to the country that you have chosen to live in? The country that has served as their oasis from the 3rd world mexican hell-hole from which they came.
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