Yeah! And downplay
the acquisitions that the “immigrants” have made since being in the USA… you
know…big gas guzzling SUV’s, bigger TV’s, free to shop at walmarts, and above
all, free to compete in the market like anyone else which ultimately means that
if you don’t live 3 generations together in one dwelling, if you don’t work for
below standard wages, if you don’t agree with immigrants, who own companies, acting
like tyrants and extorting below standard wage work from other immigrants to pay
for their SUV’s and big new houses (the American way), you lose.
Maybe
instead of building walls and criminalizing hard working people, the government
should appoint the Catholic Church to use the tithes it collects from illegal “immigrants”
to build and staff schools which educate illegals in labor history in the USA, as
well as peak oil and “outsourcing” AND that new phenomenon which is sweeping American
workers into more subjection, “insourcing”… that could be a prerequisite for
getting a work visa. I’ll bet some of the houses the “illegal” immigrants can
afford to buy in Mexico et al would dwarf the dwellings of most American city
folk who are constrained to work till they die. Oh, but that’s cause Americans just
don’t want to or can’t do what “immigrants” do I guess.
Stephan
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> We're quoted in this important story.
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> March 27, 2006
> Groundswell of Protests Back Illegal Immigrants
> By NINA BERNSTEIN
>
> When members of the Senate Judiciary Committee meet today to wrestle
> with the fate of more than 11 million illegal immigrants living in the
> United States, they can expect to do so against a backdrop of
thousands
> of demonstrators, including clergy members wearing handcuffs and
> immigrant leaders in T-shirts that declare, "We Are
America."
>
> But if events of recent days hold true, they will be facing much more
> than that.
>
> Rallies in support of immigrants around the country have attracted
> crowds that have astonished even their organizers. More than a
> half-million demonstrators marched in Los Angeles on Saturday, as many
> as 300,000 in Chicago on March 10, and - in between - tens of
> thousands in Denver, Phoenix, Milwaukee and elsewhere.
>
> One of the most powerful institutions behind the wave of public
> protests has been the Roman Catholic Church, lending organizational
> muscle to a spreading network of grass-roots coalitions. In recent
> weeks, the church has unleashed an army of priests and parishioners to
> push for the legalization of the nation's illegal immigrants, sending
> thousands of postcards to members of Congress and thousands of
> parishioners into the streets.
>
> The demonstrations embody a surging constituency demanding that
illegal
> immigrants be given a path to citizenship rather than be punished with
> prison terms. It is being pressed as never before by immigrants who
> were long thought too fearful of deportation to risk so public a
> display.
>
> "It's unbelievable," said Partha Banerjee, director of the
New Jersey
> Immigration Policy Network, who was in Washington yesterday to help
> plan more nationwide protests on April 10. "People are joining in
so
> spontaneously, it's almost like the immigrants have risen. I would
call
> it a civil rights movement reborn in this country."
>
> What has galvanized demonstrators, especially Mexicans and other Latin
> Americans who predominate among illegal immigrants, is proposed
> legislation - already passed by the House of Representatives - that
> would make it a felony to be in the United States without proper
> papers, and a federal crime to aid illegal immigrants.
>
> But the proposed measure also shows the clout of another growing force
> that elected officials have to reckon with: a groundswell of anger
> against illegal immigration that is especially potent in border states
> and swing-voting suburbs where the numbers and social costs of illegal
> immigrants are most acutely felt.
>
> "It's an entirely predictable example of the law of unintended
> consequences," said Joshua Hoyt, executive director of the
Illinois
> Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, who helped organize the
> Chicago rally and who said he was shocked by the size of the turnout.
> "The Republican party made a decision to use illegal immigration
as the
> wedge issue of 2006, and the Mexican community was profoundly
> offended."
>
> Until the wave of immigration rallies, the campaign by groups
demanding
> stringent enforcement legislation seemed to have the upper hand in
> Washington. The Judiciary Committee was deluged by faxes and e-mail
> messages from organizations like NumbersUSA, which calls for a
> reduction in immigration, and claims 237,000 activists nationwide, and
> the Federation for American Immigration Reform, which has long opposed
> any form of amnesty, including a guest-worker program advocated by
> President Bush.
>
> Dan Stein, president of the federation, acknowledged the unexpected
> outpouring of protesters, but tried to play down its political
> significance. "These are a lot of people who don't vote, can't
vote and
> certainly aren't voting Republican if they do vote," he said.
>
> But others, noting that foreign-born Latinos voted for President Bush
> in 2004 at a 40 percent greater rate than Latinos born in the United
> States, said that by pursuing the proposed legislation, Republican
> leaders might have squandered the party's inroads with an emerging
bloc
> of voters and pushed them into the Democratic camp.
>
> The Pew Hispanic Center estimates that of more than 11 million illegal
> immigrants, 78 percent are from Mexico or other Latin American
> countries. Many have children and other relatives who are United
States
> citizens. Under the House measure, family members of illegal
immigrants
> - as well as clergy members, social workers and lawyers - would
> risk up to five years in prison if they helped an illegal immigrant
> remain in the United States.
>
> "Imagine turning more than 11 million people into criminals, and
anyone
> who helps them," said Angela Sanbrano, executive director of the
> Central American Resource Center of Los Angeles, one of the organizers
> of Saturday's rally there. "It's outrageous. We needed to send a
strong
> and clear message to Congress and to President Bush that the immigrant
> community will not allow the criminalization of our people - and it
> needed to be very strong because of the anti-immigrant environment
that
> we are experiencing in Congress."
>
> Like many advocates for immigrants, Ms. Sanbrano said the protesters
> would prefer that Congress passed no immigration legislation rather
> than criminalizing those who are here without documents or creating a
> guest-worker program that would require millions to go home.
>
> In a telephone briefing sponsored last week by the National
Immigration
> Forum, the Rev. Samuel Rodriguez Jr., president of the National
> Hispanic Association of Evangelicals, warned that elected officials
> would pay a price for being on the wrong side of the legislative
> battle.
>
> "We are talking to the politicians telling them that the Hispanic
> community will not forget," he said. "I know there are pure
hearts that
> want to protect our border and protect our country, but at the same
> time the Hispanic community cannot deny the fact that many have taken
> advantage of an important and legitimate issue in order to manifest
> their racist and discriminatory spirit against the Hispanic
community."
>
> Seventy of the nation's 197 Catholic dioceses have formally committed
> to the immigration campaign since the United States Catholic
Conference
> of Bishops began the effort last year, and church officials are
> recruiting the rest.
>
> Meanwhile, priests and deacons have been working side by side with
> immigrant communities and local immigrant activist groups.
>
> Leo Anchondo, who directs the immigrant campaign for the bishops'
> conference, said that he was not surprised by the size of the protests
> because immigration advocacy groups had been working hard to build a
> powerful campaign. "We hadn't seen efforts to organize these
> communities before," Mr. Anchondo said. "It's certainly a
testament to
> the fact that people are very scared of what seems to be driving this
> anti-immigrant legislation, to the point that they are coming out to
> make sure they speak and are heard."
>
> Last night in downtown Los Angeles, Fabricio Fierros, 18, the
> American-born son of mushroom-pickers who came to the United States
> illegally from Mexico, joined about 5,000 Mexican farmworkers gathered
> for a Mass celebrating the birthday of Cesar Chavez.
>
> "It's not fair to workers here to just kick them out without
giving
> them a legal way to be here," Mr. Fierros said, "To be
treated as
> criminals after all the work they did isn't fair."
>
> John M. Broder and Rachel L. Swarns contributed reporting for this
> article.
>
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>
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