Posted on 03/27/2006 9:10:33 AM PST by NormsRevenge
HUNTINGTON PARK - Waving Mexico flags and wearing white T-shirts denoting peace, several hundred high school students walked out of class Monday as protests against an immigration crackdown continued on California's Cesar Chavez Day.
Students climbed over a chain-link fence at Huntington Park High School to join marchers in this Hispanic and heavily immigrant community south of downtown Los Angeles. The school had locked the gates after classes started.
At least 800 students walked out from at least eight schools ranging from the San Fernando Valley to the wealthy coastal enclave of Pacific Palisades, said Monica Carazo, spokeswoman for the Los Angeles Unified School District.
Police kept watch but no arrests were made as the students streamed into the streets.
The cheering, boisterous students ditched classes on a day honoring the late leader of the United Farm Workers Union. Similar school walkouts were held around the state Friday and were followed by a rally at Los Angeles City Hall that drew an estimated 500,000 people one of the largest demonstrations ever held in the city.
Protesters object to a U.S. House bill that would make it a felony to be in the U.S. illegally, impose new penalties on employers who hire illegal immigrants and erect fences along one-third of the U.S.-Mexican border.
The Senate was to consider the measure on Tuesday.
For the most part, I suspect the kids see this less as a protest and more as a fun way to miss school and hang out with their friends.
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You can see it right now on C-SPAN 1 TV.
If your computer can handle live feeds, you should also be able to see it through the internet by going to:
I saw Caesar Chavez speak one time (and one time only). He was urging a table grape boycott. It was a union led boycott over medical benefits and pay.
He played it up as a pesticides issue. When concerned college students asked if they needed to also be wary of eating California raisins or drinking California wines, he said no because that was a different union.
So much for the health of the workers or the consumers. I saw him as a big fraud and typical leftist.
He was compared to MLK Jr. but I don't see the similarity (although MLK also had his movement co-opted to address economics at the end of his life).
Well, if their consequences for missing school are the same as the consequences for being here illegally...then they should enjoy their day off.
Who the H*ll is cesar chavez?
California has the largest bunch of mexican flag waving illegals and they should all be locked up and deported immediately. The brats who are doing what their parents do should be EXPELLED from school IMMEDIATELY!
Asians (especially those that obey our laws & follow our immigration procedures) have a hard time with our immigration bureacracy.
Do you think any Asian kids are skipping calculus, physics and AP English to demonstrate?
Hee, hee, hee, hee!
Absolutely. For the rest, maybe immigration authorities should check them out--they're probably here illegally.
Waiving Mexican Flags:
That's a real good way to get grass roots support. What morons!
Ironic that they wave Mexican flags. They come to the US to try and make the US more like the Mexico that sucks so much they left it. Why not stay and make Mexico more like the US? Oh, that would require more effort than a one-day party in the streets, I guess.
Its up to the twenties of thousands now...there was a large fight at Hollywood High about 20 minutes ago....
To me, it looks like Unions, activist churches, ANSWER, and the ACLU make for quite a combination. It's amazing our country has survived as long as it has with "citizens" like them working behind the scenes to under cut the laws of this nation.
A photo of Cesar Chavez is on display as Reverend Gabino Zavala conducts a service in honor of the late Cesar Chavez at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels Sunday. The service followed a march from Los Angeles and Temple in front of the Federal building protesting H.R. 4437 legislation that would toughen immigration (Hans Gutknecht/Staff Photographer)
I remember the first Earth Day 1970.
We were outside for the raising of the "Earth Flag".
It was such a nice day nobody went back to school.
The Law of Unintended Consequences at work.
Well, they can all get themselves suspended for all I care.
No wonder folks are leaving California.
I wonder how long the "peace" would last if the proper immigration bills were passed?
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