No. This is a movement.
Posted on 12/20/2010 9:29:27 AM PST by La Lydia
LOS ANGELES -- Emboldened by months of phone calls to lawmakers, hunger strikes and sit-ins, a group of college students and graduates in Los Angeles say they plan to take their fight for immigrant rights to the states and the 2012 election after Senate Republicans blocked a key piece of legislation..they also say Latino voters are getting fed up with lawmakers at a time when they are accruing greater political clout.
"This is a movement," said Nancy Meza, a 23-year-old illegal immigrant and college graduate who wore a UCLA sweatshirt as she watched the televised vote. "We don't have lobbyists and paid staff. It's a movement by students."
...after the vote, Meza and about 50 other student activists who had gathered at the UCLA Downtown Labor Center said they would remind Latinos who stood by them - and those who did not - in the next election cycle. They will push for access to financial aid and drivers' licenses in states more friendly to immigrants like California...
Students also said they planned to fight for immigrant benefits - though it's not legalization - locally as they've seen anti-illegal immigration activists do to pass tougher enforcement measures in states like Arizona.
"They're winning by state, they're winning by region," said Cyndi Bendezu, a 25-year-old University of California, Los Angeles graduate who was brought to the United States from Peru when she was 4 years old. ...
Bendezu, who had been an illegal immigrant when she started college, attained legal residency through a relative's petition. Now, she said she can't wait to become a citizen to be able to vote....
... immigrant advocates who had touted the bill as a first push toward a broader legalization of immigrants will be working to deflect anticipated efforts by Republicans to ramp up restrictions on immigration....
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
The assumption that all Latino voters are for legalizing all illegals is a little bit of an overestimation.
These dumbass college kids think that the government will be able to afford to give them unlimited free “loans” while paying for an unlimited number of illegal aliens.
Yes, but not by much.
The voting pattern in this country is fast becoming Everybody vs. Whitey.
I have been against this, but how about a discussion:
Only those ages 14-20 eligable
no chain immigration (relatives) permitted
two years honorable military service completed (college not qualifier)
Entered US under age of 10
no more that 10000 permitted
etc
Is the La Reconquista , still on as well ?
You are still rewarding illegal behavior, on the part of their parents, regardless of how you slice it. You want to deny them chain migration, but once they are citizens, they will file a lawsuit for equal treatment with other citizens who have the right to import their relatives and that restriction will go down the tubes. I won’t even address you proposal that they be required to provide military service.
I didn’t think the movie was that good.
Anything short of returning to their country of origin and then entering our country LEGALLY, is amnesty.
Many (rightly) believe they should be charged with the crime of illegal entry first, but I’m willing to discuss that.
Let ‘em look to 2012 from back in their home countries.
The problem is that it is the camel’s nose under the tent. no matter how limited it would be amended out of recognition over time.
Military service for non citizens is common now. It is used for legal residents and is often used to enhance citizenship applications.
It is a reward for parents illegal behavior agreed. There are some kids who do not even remember Mexico or speak spanish. (I jump the gun and address the majority enicity here).
Probably best to draw a hard line and not even start - I agree.
Mega dittos. They all need to get back to their roots.
Good. A bunch of high-profile protests by snotty, entitled sounding illegals around election time can only be good for our side.
said Nancy Meza, a 23-year-old illegal immigrant and college graduate
Nancy, you are a criminal here.
Go back to the nation of your origin, apply through the US embassy or consulate for residency, permanent if you desire. The approved documentation is called the "green card," and I know five mature productive adults within five miles of my home who have done this and live mature productive lives. They have done it legally through internationally accepted and prevalent protocol; and they incidentally resent irresponsible pigs like you trying to immigrate through circumvention of the laws, laws which similarly prevail in your own country.
I am not sorry, nor should any civilized world citizen be, for clarifying the irresponsible, uncivilized, selfish, arrogant, and lazy behavior you exhibit.
It is not a difficult application except that you have to be honest with yourself, have the courage to face your status, and exercise the initiative that hopefully UCLA taught you is necessary to be a decent person.
Johnny Suntrade
If Mexico is such a great place, and all the ILLEGAL ALIENS here proudly display Mexican Flags and other such Political Statements, WHY DON’T THEY GO BACK, THEY LOVE THEIR COUNTRY I THOUGHT, Why ARE YOU HERE????
I encourage them to continue their hunger strikes until they get what they want.
Ping!
Deport every one of them!
I have never heard these Dream Act kids (or the pols pimping them) call for better border enforcement as a trade-off to get their bill through. The bill would have passed otherwise. These Dream Act kids believe in no borders, not just open borders. One was in the news in his college dorm with a big ol’ Che poster. I’ll bet others are salivating at becoming immigration lawyers to get even more miscreants legal status
Here is an essay by the Peruvian girl brought in at age 4 (so she says) who magically got legalized.
http://www.tcla.gseis.ucla.edu/rights/features/7/students/bendezu.html
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