Posted on 04/11/2006 11:20:22 AM PDT by NapkinUser
Advocates of an immigration crackdown say they will rally -- just like the pro-immigration groups did on Monday.
Two separate groups are planning counter demonstrations at the state Capitol.
“My phone has been ringing off the hook for three days,” said activist D.A. King. “There is no universal civil right to live in the U.S.”
King says he plans a counter-rally at the Georgia State Capitol on Monday April 17 -- income tax filing day. He says that before Congress opens any path to citizenship for those already in the U.S., it should secure the borders and punish employers who hire illegal immigrants.
King says he believes that would convince many undocumented workers to go home.
“Nobody breaks into Disneyland if they can't ride the rides. Okay, and by the way, it is considerably more difficult to break into Disneyland than it is to walk into the United States,” King said.
Another grass-roots group plans a rally at the Capitol on Saturday. Meanwhile, a proposed federal crackdown deadlocked in the Senate last week.
Georgia Republican Saxby Chambliss called for a combination of enforcement and humane treatment for workers.
“They are important from a workforce standpoint,” Chambliss said. “There is no question about that. But by the same token, they need to be here for the right reason and they need to come here in the right way.”
At the state Captiol, Gov. Sonny Perdue’s press secretary said he would have nothing to say about the march, but he is expected to sign a crackdown that lawmakers passed last month.
The bill denies state services to most adults in the country illegally. But it stops far short of criminal charges for employers or deportation for workers. It’s sponsor calls it a first step.
“It is clearly the strongest bill that has passed in any state legislature in America, and for that we can be proud,” said state Senator Chip Rogers.
But any solution will take years.
Gov. Perdue’s office said it fielded just under 550 calls on Monday about the immigration bill that's on the governor's desk.
The governor's press secretary said the overwhelming majority of the callers want the bill signed.
The governor's press secretary said the overwhelming majority of the callers want the bill signed.
This was just being talked about on the radio. Before yesterday's rally for illegal immigrants, the majority of calls to the governor wanted the bill vetoed. Since yesterday's rally, the majority of callers to the governor want the crackdown-on-illegals bill signed. The bill must be signed or vetoed by May 9 or it will automatically go into law without any action from the governor.
Please keep the rallies up illegals, you're only awakening the silent majority!
info on the rally in Atlanta:
http://www.thedustininmansociety.com/blog/wp-print.php?p=116
ping to other rallies forming
We can only hope and pray our elected officials come to the right decision in the next two weeks.
Which is
Strict strong border control
NO amnesty
NO Specter/kennedy bill
Fine and penalize employers that employed illgals
In fact HR 4437 covers it all! pass it!
Sign the petition see tagline
ping
More info on the bill including the Governor's phone number to express support for the bill and to urge him to sign it.
http://www.thedustininmansociety.com/blog/?p=103
Once we're in, we claim amnesty, ride for free.
Maybe 1,000 people turn out. Americans don't care enough if there is no money in it for them. While many of us do, many more simply don't.
...do you think that tax money will be used for this demonstration like it was for pro illegal demonstrations?
Or do you think tax money will be denied on the grounds of "hate"?
I signed the petition. I saw one bogus signature:
Name: this is a stupid idea, i disagree
City/State: please dont/your are racist
Age: 0
Citizen? Yes.
Well look on the bright side there are over 5,000 signatures
Thanks again!
Ping!
Bump!
"In the first place we should insist that the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equity with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace or origin.
But this is predicated upon the man's becoming an American and nothing but an American. There can be no divided allegiance here.
Any man who says he is an American but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag, and this excludes the red flag which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization, just as much as it excludes any flag of a nation to which we are hostile.
We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language...and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."
Theodore Roosevelt in a letter to the American Defense Society in 1919.
Most excellent find, onyx! That is so true...and the crux of the matter.
*major eyeroll*
uh....remember those violent yellow turnips....they're still around!! : )
*running and hiding*
:-)
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