Posted on 04/28/2010 2:30:58 PM PDT by syc1959
Protest organizers on Wednesday said outrage over the Arizona law -- which seeks to drive illegal immigrants out of the state bordering Mexico -- has galvanized Latinos and would translate into a higher turnout for May Day rallies in more than 70 U.S. cities.
"The marches and demonstrations are going to be far more massive than they otherwise would have been," said Juan Jose Gutierrez, a Los Angeles rally organizer who runs an immigration assistance company.
The backlash began on Friday after Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed into law a measure that requires state and local police to determine a person's immigration status if there is "reasonable suspicion" they are undocumented. Critics say it is unconstitutional and opens the door to racial profiling.
The crowds on the streets, from Los Angeles to New York, could be the biggest since 2006, when hundreds of thousands of marchers urged former President George W. Bush to overhaul federal immigration laws. He tried, but failed in Congress.
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of course that should have been watch not watcg
A giant horde of foreigners using America’s right of free speech to scream at us (citizens) how much they hate this country. Un-be-lievable. The inmates are running the asylum. As I’ve said before, the barbarians are inside the gate. Is it Rome, 410? Or not?
Wow, the authorities could just open the local stadiums and have them march in. Probably the biggest sting operation in the world. Send them all back!
Just don’t make it for before noon.
Round them up and start deportaion.
Things could get interesting!
Ping!
the only reason the headlines read “rallies” is to keep the potential peace-these people are READY TO RIOT -the pin hasn’t dropped yet;it will
A Hispanic-Supremacist rally on May Day ... how fitting.
dear leader will order full panoramic news shots of them clogging the streets...millions upon millions upon millions of honest, hard working victims of oppression & Nazism. All channels will carry it for hours upon hours, for days...backwards & forwards, over and over again. Heck, dear leader (the community organizer) will probably arrange a timely speach in support of them.(but we know it to be propaganda)
Cinco de Mayo is more widely celebrated in the United States then in Mexico.
Its about a Mexican victory at the Battle of Puebla, May 5, 1862 against French forces attempting to make Mexico a colony.
This is significant to the United States because as you know at the time we were in the middle of a War between the States and unable to aid Mexico in enforcing the Monro doctrine.
It is not specifically a Hispanic thing.
Thanks for the explanation of significance of Cinco de Mayo from U.S. perspective and from Mexican Perspective.
My impressions of the event is shaped by my Hispanic friends (and family members) here in U.S. I spent 14 years in NM and it is talked about there, but seldom saw much of an event around it.
Both the U.S. and Mexico would be better off if we cooperated more. But the difference of cultural perspective and the political norms have made that impossible.
Here in Texas it is a little different. Many Hispanics supported the break from Mexico in 1835-1836. (San Jacinto was fought on April 21, 1836) Currently Texas Hispanics are divided politically, and I think some think they were USED in the last election cycle. They were.
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