Posted on 10/04/2004 7:50:58 AM PDT by Rakkasan1
Minnesota Freedom Ride, a cross-state bus tour designed to highlight immigrant issues and rights, stopped in the Twin Cities on Sunday and will host a rally and march today.
The bipartisan group crisscrossed the state for the past four days, sponsoring rallies, marches and voter registration drives emphasizing labor rights, civil liberties and reform of immigration laws that would help unify families.
About two dozen people representing Latino, South American, Asian and African immigrant communities are sharing their stories as part of the Freedom Ride, which has made stops in Willmar, Moorhead, Pelican Rapids, Worthington, Owatonna and the Twin Cities.
Today, State Sen. Sandra Pappas-DFL, St. Paul, and Rep. Carlos Mariani-DFL, St. Paul, will address the tour at 1:30 p.m. at Sagrado Corazon Church at 38th Street and Pleasant Avenue in Minneapolis. The Freedom Ride is hosting a march for immigrant workers' rights at 2 p.m. starting at the church and then a rally at 4 p.m. at the Government Plaza in downtown Minneapolis.
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The looniest of liberal loonies. Pappas and Mariani shamelessly trolling for votes from our large immigrant population.
Criminal Caravan?
Their families can be unified back in wherever the hell they came from.
How far behind are the ICE officers?
Roll on "Gravy Train" and the "Terrorist Express."
I'm sooo sick of this crap.
"I'm sooo sick of this crap."
Don't feel alone.
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What rights do immigrants want that they don't already enjoy (along with non-immigrants)? I can't think of any "rights" that they're denied as U.S. citizens.
Now, if we're talking "illegal immigrants," that's an entirely different story....
A good bus tour is just what these folks need. Let the tour start in Matamoros, and end in Mexico City.
The problem with those families --- they want to reunify here because the ones left behind in Mexico are not exactly the working types. The working types are here but because of lack of skills and eduction, they can earn very little money. Bringing the kids and elderly and infirm over here reunites families --- but the illegals can't afford health care on themselves much less their non-working relatives who will be dependent on tax payer dollars --- just a small family of 5 kids being brought over will cost taxpayers here $50,000 or more just for costs of schooling. Add in health care for the sick grandparents and it's going to be far more.
Mexico doesn't want or need any more protests than it's got going on right now -- it's about to explode --- sending protesting types over here takes some of the pressure off.
Barf alert needed for that.
We need the law to be followed, that would be the fair thing to do.
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