Popular Spanish-language DJ Eddie "Piolín" Sotelo arrives on Capitol Hill to hand deliver a million letters in support of the immigration reform bill. (Megan Crudele )Posted on 06/15/2007 2:59:46 PM PDT by BornInASmallTown
Popular Spanish-language DJ Eddie "Piolín" Sotelo, in private meetings with several congressmen today, hand delivered more than a million letters today signed in support of immigration reform..
Thursday, joined by Sens. Mel Martinez, R-Fla., Ted Kennedy, D-Mass, and Robert Menendez, D-N.J., Sotelo pleaded with Congress to swiftly pass the immigration reform bill that hangs over it.
"Here I am with more than 1 million letters from legal residents and U.S. citizens that represent millions of voices. They are voices of men, women and children who are asking you to look deep into your hearts to bring those millions out of the shadows and establish a legal, workable immigration system," Sotelo said in a Thursday press conference. Sotelo's voice is familiar not only on the airwaves but also on the immigration circuit. Rated by the Los Angeles Times as one of Southern California's 100 most-powerful people, the 37-year-old Sotelo is largely credited for the massive turnout during the 2006 pro-immigration rallies.
Now a legal resident of the United States, Sotelo took a personal interest in the rallies and in the immigration bill pending before Congress, because he himself arrived on U.S. soil in 1986 as an illegal immigrant. Sotelo gathered the letters on a cross-country caravan trip to Washington with hundreds of people in tow behind him. He delivered them today after attending the National Hispanic Prayer Breakfast with President Bush to lobby for "just and humane" immigration reform.
Popular Spanish-language DJ Eddie "Piolín" Sotelo arrives on Capitol Hill to hand deliver a million letters in support of the immigration reform bill. (Megan Crudele )(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
Are these letters ‘authentic’ like the majority of Social Security numbers the illegals use?
So, will 1,000,000 letters all signed “Juan Valdez” trump the millions of phone calls, letters, and emails the Senate and the White House received from actual Americans?
One wonders how many of those "million" are legit, and how many are from actual citizens?
Really? A million legal residents and citizens signed some letter? Why don’t I believe him?
If Brian Ross was a conservative, we would be hearing about checks delivered to the “DJ” from the RNC or Karl Rove. I hope an enterprising blogger finds out who paid for this little piece of theater.
Mel Martinez is really hurting not only the hard-working Cuban-American community, but legal immigration as well. I think after this, most Americans will support a cap or a moratorium on legal immigration until this mess gets sorted out. Martinez is not helping the folks who sincerely want to come here and assimilate, and I think most Americans will not support a presidential candidate with a Hispanic surname.
1,000,000 letters all signed “Juan Valdez”...
...oh, MAN, that’s the FUNNIEST thing I’ve heard all day. I needed a laugh, and you my friend, just provided it.
:-)
This means we need to keep up what we are doing and realize the opposite side is doing the same..
We already have one, you dolt.
Now go pound sand, Piolin.
Deseamos destruir su país sin encender un tiro. Mexicano tenemos 5.000 años de adorar al diablo y de sacraficing a nuestros niños y deseamos o lo hacemos aquí también.
There *will* be some kind of amnesty, even if it’s the de facto amnesty we have now. The issue is the lack of credibility in the government doing anything about the *next* 12 to 20 million illegals. I’d be willing to trade amnesty for border enforcement, but it’s like ‘land for peace’. Once amnesty, like land, is given away it’s forever. Border enforcement, like peace, can be revoked at anytime. The bottom line is government not willing to enforce borders. This is much much bigger than one bill. This is an attitude embedded in government and it will be almost impossible to weed out.
Private meeting?
Do these congressmen represent a private, unknown group of people?
I don't understand why *our* representatives are allow by law, while on the job, to meet with anyone privately behind closed doors.
WOW, he only got a million to sign up for freebies. Now that’s a statement. I am not sure Democrats want to spread this around.
Last one in the hammock has to pay.
(Which would be the worst tragedy to befall the USA since the first CW.)
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very interesting someone would attempt to justify an invasion of anothers’ country with 1,000,000 letters....
Given the way the Congress and Administration have been acting on this; probably. It seems we have a Political Class in this country now, one that wishes to model itself after the royals and lords of the old country. And us? Peasants & serfs. A source of labor and money to exploited for their own agendas.
That little outdated Constitution; a government of, by, and for The People, no longer applies.
Love those crowd pics. Bush has got such a big heart and a big ranch, maybe they should be re-directed to Crawford.
I wish!!!
Just say NO to Illegal Alien Amnesty!! Keep calling!! It’s NOT OVER!!
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