Posted on 10/27/2007 4:05:03 AM PDT by chicagolady
On Friday, two armies converged upon McHenry County College.
A group of Hispanic students offended by the presence of the anti-illegal immigration group on campus attempted to protest an Illinois Minuteman Project seminar at the college's conference center Friday evening.
The students gathered at 5 p.m. in the college's common area in campus Building A, to collect their thoughts and tape "immigrant" signs to the backs of their shirts.
At 6 p.m., they attempted to walk through the campus corridors to Building C, where the seminar was held, but were blocked by campus and Minuteman security.
"MCC is basically on lockdown," said Carlos Accosta, executive director of the Latino Coalition, who attended the event. All doors in Building C were locked except that of the room where the seminar was held.
Guadalupe Ortiz, a 19-year-old business student, agreed. "Normally, classes would be finished by now, but the building doors would be open and you could walk through the campus and use the computers," she said. "I've never seen it like this."
MCC officials were not available for comment.
Many of the students who planned to protest are members of Latinos Unidos, the college's Hispanic student organization.
Latinos Unidos presented college President Walter Packard with more than 400 signatures Wednesday of students who opposed the Minuteman group's use of college facilities.
Packard told the students that the campus is open to the public, and the college's conference center facilities can be rented by any organization that completes an application and pays a set fee.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailyherald.com ...
This kid is lying. He called me 5 times asking for me to donate a ticket to him.
He said he did not have any money. Sorry tell Latinos Unidos to cough up some of their grants and donated money to buy your sorry self a ticket/
immigration ping.
Carlso Acosta who is mentioned in the article is a poor excuse for an American Citizen. He actually thinks I care what his opinion is.
get out and stay out!! who the heck needs you, are you really that stupid to think you can lie your way into a ready built society with all the freebees and not have to give up blood to get there?
Glad to hear that security was up to the task. The college president seems like a rational guy.
“Latinos Unidos plans to make a statement following their meeting next week.”
Let me guess.... They’re going to protest and demand that President Packard resign for allowing those racist, bigoted, hateful, xenophobic Minutemen on campus.
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Nah, too asy...
and tape "immigrant" signs to the backs of their shirts.
So I'm guessing they were against those who came in illegally, since those are the folks who are making it harder on those who follow the rules, right? (crickets)
Good post. Did the author of the article not call you or anyone else to confirm what Kendzie was saying? They obviously wanted to get in to heckle and intimidate but didn’t want to pay for the privilege.
The MMP isn’t breaking up or dividing families. A parent who will leave a child behind simply because that child was born in the USA, as a result of their trampling underfoot American sovereignty and deriding our laws; These parents weren’t trying to create much of a family in the beginning.
There are those of us who appreciate the MMP and their doing the job Americans are unwilling to do. Keep up the fight and thanks for all you do. I am giving my vote to a candidate who has actually done things to address this illegal invasion. I am tired of trusting these meat-puppets the media props up for us every election and getting the same ole same every time.
SWEET! - With a college that claims to have 60,000 students annually at all of this locations combines, you come in with a Whopping! POINT ZERO ZERO SEVEN PERCENT of the students having signed your petition.
With visions of grandeur like like, you ought to be working for the Wrong Paul campaign!
BTTT
“Latinos Unidos plans to make a statement following their meeting next week.”
The Organization of “Caucasians United” .....
W
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Keep up the good work.
0.7%, not.007% You want to give them full credit for their efforts.
“Latinos Unidos plans to make a statement following their meeting next week.”
This statement strikes me as pretty funny. All the hysteria and they wait until “next week” to meet and issue a statement.
This is why they move here, and don’t stay in Mexico - nobody ever gets anything done there because everything gets put off until “next week”.
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truth!!!
And the “Mexicans” never even controlled our great SW. They were too stupid and lazy to tame the wild Indians. The US Army was what subdued the Apache and Comanche
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I think I saw you on the Dancing with the Stars Engineers, no? :o)
Written as if Sheriff Beck is the wrongdoer here. Nazi propaganda minister Josef Goebbels would be ecstatic to see how much our mass media gets away with in our time.
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