Posted on 04/10/2006 12:35:54 PM PDT by Pookee
HOUSTON -- Thousands of Houstonians are expected to take part in a protest on Monday against a controversial immigration bill.
The "March of Dignity" is scheduled to begin at 1 p.m. at Guadalupe Plaza on South Jensen Drive at Navigation Boulevard in northeast Houston. From there, demonstrators will walk to Allen's Landing on Main Street at Commerce Street in downtown Houston. The march is expected to reach Allen's Landing, where a rally will be held from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m., some time after 2 p.m.
Participants gathered early to organize their thoughts, chants and banners in anticipation of what is expected to be Houston's largest immigration rally yet.
"I'm expecting to see something pretty amazing. A few weeks ago when the students were organizing the marches, it was really incredible. This is a national day of action, so it's going to be very exciting here today," participant Annica Gorham told KPRC Local 2.
Many of the people involved in the march are the immigrant workers who are the subject of the debate. Some participants said their employers gave them the day off to join in the rally.
"Even some employers who have called us, like one construction company owned by a Latino businessman, gave the day off to 150 workers," Central Americans Resource Center member Maria Jimenez said.
Organizers have discouraged students from participating in the protests. However, some students said their parents gave them permission to attend.
Marches, rallies and protests were scheduled across Texas on Monday calling for Congress to legalize an estimated 11 million illegal immigrants.
Rallies were also planned for Monday in El Paso, Austin and elsewhere in Texas, including an estimated 2,000 protesters at a morning rally in Tyler.
Rush refers to these illegal protests as rallies put on by the Democratic Party.
What part of ILLEGAL don't these people understand?
I work down in Sugar Land so I probably won't get stuck in that mess, but I'm packing 2 extra magazines today just in case.
One of these marches turned violent up north and someone got beat up by the illegals.
Can you take some photos? We need photos that can be held up against the MSM photos complete with landmarks!
Thank God I'm out of downtown.
No, no, no! No Mexican flags! American flags! Show that you are assimilated, you idiots! Guess they only announced this in English, and probly 1 in 10 speaks enough English to understand.
What part of illegal do they not understand? Or is just that convenient hearring thing my mom used to accuse me of?
Glad I am in the galleria and not seeing this.
"Basta!
Vaheémonos!"
Rough translation - "Shut up! Get out!"
Too bad you don't have a camera....
susie
Well, the article didn't mention the word illegal until it mentioned the bill....at the bottom of the page.
susie
"The TV shows America being invaded by Mexico. They're invading our streets right now as we speak. It's a Mexican 9/11.
They're demanding we obey them. We either do as they say, or we'll be fighting a civil war."
Isn't this REALLY what we're witnessing on TV right now?
Or....like many mobs they have just a bit of a mind of their own.
susie
America,"be afraid,be very afraid"!
You bet. Every left wing group you can think of is behind it.
No War – and No Borders: The radical ideologues behind the "National Day of Action" (Front Page Magazine FR thread)
Maybe so, Susie, but they're sending the wrong message when the American flags they do have they are holding upside down. Yeah, makes me want to have them stay here.
All the demonstrators throughout the country - Mexican and Americans, both - should be rounded up and shipped promptly to Mexico.
LOL
I like it.
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