Alex Vega, Illegal Immigrant
Martha Teichner: "Lesson one in the how to manual goes like this: ‘Today we march, tomorrow we vote.’"
Posted on 08/02/2006 8:55:39 PM PDT by AZRepublican
I have a hot cup of pep right here
I'm guessing 10 years max. And who needs a 'right to vote?' They're already voting illegally in massive numbers and no one has the stones to challenge them -- ask Bob Dornan.
And it's making you chockfully nutty!!
Leave the dims in charge and most likely they will be running the show
LOL, way to kick a hornets nest.
They run California....
I plan to be checking out about that time anyway.
Alex Vega, Illegal Immigrant
Martha Teichner: "Lesson one in the how to manual goes like this: ‘Today we march, tomorrow we vote.’"
Into the ground like the countries of their birth.
Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., likened the rallies to the civil rights movement in the 1960s led by Martin Luther King Jr.
"It is time for Americans to lift their voices once again — this time in pride for our immigrant past and in support of our immigrant future," Kennedy told a rally in Washington, D.C.
Crowds at rallies in Boston, Phoenix, Washington and other major cities heard speeches in Spanish and chanted, "Si se puede," a slogan that translates to "Yes we can" and was used by Cesar Chavez in the struggle for rights for farmworkers in the 1960s and 1970s.
Born in Mexico, Alex Vega has been in the United States, undocumented, under the radar more than half his life. But in April he defiantly showed himself. He marched through downtown Los Angeles for immigrant rights, one of millions nationwide who understood what it meant to be seen and counted for the first time.
"I'm a ghost. I'm a ghost. I don't——I'm 45-years-old, I got 10 children, I have a business, I own a house, but nothing is in my name," Vega says.
Within five years, all 10 of Vega's children, born here, U.S. citizens, will have reached voting age.
"In 20 years then we gonna run the country. Right now we running the cities. So little by little, we are running the show. Little by little——so the sleeping giant, it's already awakened," Vega says.
Bill Whittaker championed "Alex Vega...a father of ten. He owns a business and a house in Orange County. He entered the U.S. illegally 28 years ago. He's marching today because he says he's tired of living in the shadows." From Washington's Mall, Jim Axelrod saw "tens of thousands of Americans" marching though many were illegals. Over on NBC, the least celebratory, Lester Holt heralded: "From border states like here in Arizona to unlikely places like South Bend, Indiana, and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, illegal immigrants alongside their supporters stepped from the shadows. Marching under the American flag, they demanded a place at the American table."
Vega: "Even though I have a business and I have a house, nothing is in my name. I don't exist. I'm a ghost."
Whittaker: "So his children, all American citizens, made signs ["WE ARE NOT CRIMINALS MR. SENSENBRENNER"] and raised their voices with their father's today. He says the usually quiet Latino population, what he calls 'the sleeping giant,' has finally awoken."
Vega: "The sleeping giant is getting bigger in numbers. And not just numbers, but voters and for my kids, they know how important it is to vote."
Whittaker walking with protesters: "There's been talk of rousing the sleeping giant for decades, but the giant's power has never been fully realized. But people here say this time it's different, that immigration is personal, affecting almost every family. And this time they're supported by unions, churches, the Spanish language media and the Internet reached nationwide and Latino political muscle is growing. Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa calls immigration a galvanizing issue."
Juan Jose Gutierrez, Latino Movement USA: "It will energize millions of people across America. And the public should know that the genie is out of the bottle."
Whittaker: "And Alex Vega says their voices are getting louder."
Vega: "Whether they give us papers or not, we still going to be here."
If the Administration doesn't start enforcing the law very quickly, he just might be right. Barring no law enforcement they could be running Texas in 3 or 4 election cycles.
You are exactly correct.
"I wonder if 'Texas Forever' has an opinion on that"
If he has his way, there won't be a Texas in the not so distant future.
Hell, if we Texans rise up in arms, the modern "Bluebellies" will descend on us, not the Invaders, in full Federal Fury against us unreconstructed "Bigots".
Amen!!!
So am I. Tancredo is the ONLY candidate that can and will put a stop to this.
Your right about that. I still would like his opinion on this.
Even Cesar Chavez was against illegal immigration. He wanted unions for farmworkers to protect their jobs. He knew way back then that illegals would bring wages down for everyone.
Bush and his globalist cronies are the ones enabling this invasion.
BUMP
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