Posted on 04/08/2017 11:00:32 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
GARY — About 50 people gathered at the entrance to the Gary-Chicago International Airport Friday to protest the use of the airport to carry out the deportation policies implemented by the Trump administration.
Frigid winds whipped banners and signs bearing the simple words "No Wall," "No Ban," "No Deportation" and "Resist." Other signs touted the need for job creation, not deportation. The protest was held at the airport, which organizers said is where people arrested as illegal immigrants are brought in buses from Northwest Indiana and the Chicago area by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office to be deported.
One of those who spoke at the vigil, Torre Fuerte, said the deportations don't create jobs or raise anyone's pay. If anyone's pay does go up, it is at the expense of others losing pay or jobs, he said, "and that's cannibalism." As vehicles driving by honked support, Raoul Contreras called the Trump policies of deportation and requiring people to register by religion fascism.
The vigil was organized by Northwest Indiana Resistance, which Ruth Needleman, a Gary resident and one of the group's organizers, said is a temporary umbrella coalition to help coordinate activities, bring different groups together, end the deportations, raise money and try to get "welcoming city" ordinances passed by area communities.
"We are not protesting the airport," Needleman said. "We are protesting ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement). Our goal is to return the airport to profitability. No jobs are being created here (by the deportations). We would like to see the airport used for the benefit of the community."(continued)
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Use a prisoner bus like you see in the movies. Cuff them, strap them is, box lunches and off to Mexico we go. Help the bus industry create new jobs.
There’s a bus company called “Roadrunner” headquartered just a mile or two from my front door that’d love to have the business.
Gary has an airport? From Google, it looks like it has 2 gates and a big empty parking lot. And the ‘International’ airport appears to have no scheduled service.
Well, our tax dollars at work.
The deportations do create jobs.
Check all of the protesters for ID, any “undocumented” detained.
Herd them all on board and fly them to El Salvador and let them protest there.
We hate your policy ...
We hate you ...
We hate your method ...
we hate your use of the method ...
We hate you think of a use for your method ...
we hate ...
Give us a minute ...
We'll think of another one.
50 people protest and it’s a national news story.
Mmmkay.
If the illegals were working (in violation of the law), deporting them frees up a job for a citizen or for a legal immigrant. If the illegals were committing crime or on welfare, deporting them reduces the social costs that those of us who work have to pay for, making it easier to get by on however much we make. Either way, deportation is an efficient form of creating and improving jobs for those who follow the law.
More people protest outside of Planned Parenthood offices every single day.
Consisting of 3 protesters, 7 lookie loos and 40 press.
Can’t UPS do it?
Perfect place for a protest!! Wonder how many were shot on the way to / from the protest? Hope they have these rallies daily and make sure to advertise it locally!
Gary Indiana, the butthole of the nation
Perfect place indeed
Gary, Indiana!
What a wonderful name,
Named for Elbert Gary of judiciary fame.
Gary, Indiana, as a Shakespeare would say,
Trips along softly on the tongue this way—
Gary, Indiana, Gary Indiana, Gary, Indiana,
Let me say it once again.
Gary, Indiana, Gary, Indiana, Gary, Indiana,
That’s the town that “knew me when.”
If you’d like to have a logical explanation
How I happened on this elegant syncopation,
I will say without a moment of hesitation
There is just one place
That can light my face.
Gary, Indiana,
Gary Indiana,
Not Louisiana, Paris, France, New York, or Rome, but—
Gary, Indiana,
Gary, Indiana,
Gary Indiana,
My home sweet home.
That’s Merideth Wilson
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Well it ain’t like anybody else wants to go to Gary to get on an airplane.
Gary Indiana
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