Posted on 07/30/2007 8:33:33 AM PDT by khnyny
Latinos Unite to Turn Fear Into Activism Pr. William Policy on Illegal Immigrants Prompts Call for Boycott, Other Actions
By Pamela Constable Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, July 28, 2007; A01
Latinos in Prince William County, angered and panicked by a county resolution to crack down on illegal immigrants, are swiftly banding together against what they see as an assault on their community. They vowed this week to block the resolution through a boycott, a petition drive and possibly a labor strike or lawsuit.
At packed public meetings in three towns this week, organizers signed up volunteers, circulated petitions, set up a hotline for reports of discrimination and announced a campaign of phone calls and e-mails to county officials. They also said they would organize caravans to visit Loudoun County and other communities where Latinos feel targeted.
On Thursday night in Manassas, more than 1,000 Latino residents voted with raised fists and cheers to stage a one-week boycott of all non-immigrant businesses in Prince William at the end of next month. The crowd first met in a church, then grew so large it had to move to a park outside. Latinos in Woodbridge and Dumfries also voted this week to stage the boycott and other actions.
The surge of activism, which also includes voter registration and citizenship drives in other communities, follows a long period of drift and uncertainty for area Latino advocates, especially since the collapse of a major immigration reform bill in the Senate last month. Opponents of illegal immigrants, who had swamped Capitol Hill with impassioned e-mails and phone calls against the bill, felt emboldened by its defeat and have pressed ahead with local measures.
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they always react like communists.
I hope the White HOuse has someone scanning FR right now. Not that it would do any real good, but it might raise their blood pressure a little.
Hell, I live in Arlington and I’ve been pissed off for a long time about these illegals......er....undocumented........er.......uppity illegals daring to demand the moon like spoiled brat children, throwing it in our faces, and expecting citizens (both native born and LEGAL immigrants) to hush up and keep shelling out more and more money for them. I’ve lived in Northern VA all my life and it has definintely changed for the worse over the past 10-15 years.
The thing is, the Feds are not properly funding ICE and the rumour is, have stopped processing LEGAL immigration applicants in retaliation for the defeat of the immigration bill.
Well who would that be? I thought we were a "nation of immigrants"? We are an "immigrant nation"?
LOL, so true. I didn’t see that. Thanks for pointing it out!
A NATION OF ‘SHEEP’ WILL BEGET A GOVERNMENT OF WOLVES .
When the government fear the people , that is liberty, when the people fear the government ,thats tyranny . Thomas Jefferson .
The INS needs to do its job, and arrest these illegals.
We need to get out in the streets with these criminals and stand our ground . But we won’t do that .
Well good. The sooner they riot, the sooner the crackdown. Seems like the only thing we are NOT required to tolerate nowadays is rioting.
Does that mean if Mexicans or Mooslimbs riot, we’re weapons free?
I had a man working at my house last week, who has diabetes and a few medical problems. Now he needs an operation. He told me he couldn’t get insurance and has to pay for the operation himself. We talked about all the illegals in this country who simply walk in and get the best medical care for free.
Here’s a man in his early 50s, who has worked all his life in the construction business, paid taxes, raised two daughters and he has to pay for an operation. He’s tried to get insurance, but every where he looks, he gets turned away.
There is something very wrong with this country that an American citizen can not get the benefits we shower on illegal aliens.
The nerve of these bastards protesting the enforcement of our immigration laws.
Great to see the comments at the Washington Post underneath the article. They sound like they are getting fed up with the situation there. So many talking of revolt against the illegals in their area.
“Is every man in the United States a complete wussy?”
No not every man, but most of our congressmen and all of our WH. It is as if the illegal alien bill, recently rejected, is still being promoted by government. They continue to push for this globalization effort thereby ignoring the will of the people.
ping
That's an accurate reflection of the majority sentiment here in Northern Virginia...even in Fairfax, which apparently is a "sanctuary" county.
[[I know my father’s generation (Depression, WWII, Korea) would’ve never put up with half of what we’ve already put up with, much less this escalation!!]]
Vet,
I say that to people all the time. We are not 1/10 the country that we were in back in WW2. Political correctness, multiculturalism and diversity are rotting this country from the inside out. Back then we were all Americans, but now we are all hyphenated something else with no loyalty to America. Loyalties lie with the foreign country of origin and in some cases such as Islam loyalties lie with Allah first and no loyalty at all to America. In fact, outright contempt and hatred for America is encouraged if you are a Muslim.
Semper Fi’
Jarhead
Dare I suggest that the "raised fists" belong to ILLEGAL aliens?
"To the streets! Power to the people! Bring it all down, man! Burn baby burn!"
Ah, the smell of burning retail stores and apartment buildings. The 1960's all over again.
The radical Left may have found the cannon fodder they've been seeking. Black Americans said, "Screw you. We're Americans first. Do your own revolution."
But that was the 1960s and today it's different. "Hot Damn! Millions of citizens of other countries. All ours," say the radical Left freaks.
The cannon fodder today has got no love for America, dollars maybe, but not America.
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