A TWIST ON AN OLD SEINFELD LINE: 
But I don't even LIVE in this Country (legally).....
THAT'S what makes this so difficult! (<---old man Leland)
Posted on 07/03/2005 3:31:08 PM PDT by Sweet_Sunflower29
The Mexican flag flew beside the American flag in Mesa on Saturday as an estimated 2,000 Hispanics pledged to boycott gasoline for two days in support of immigration reform.
Immigrants without Borders, organizers of the boycott rally, asked all Arizonans not to buy gasoline Saturday and today to show the enormous purchasing power of Hispanics.
"It is an action to motivate people to do something," said the group’s executive director Elias Burmudez. "We have the right to protest. It’s something to show that we are necessary."
In the parking lot at Pioneer Park, the message was painted on car windows with the word "gas" crossed out.
The 3 p.m. rally, with about a dozen musical acts and several speakers, all in Spanish, drew Hispanic families from Mesa neighborhoods and from around the Valley.
The party lasted late into the night.
The chorus to a rousing rendition of "La Bamba" was soon replaced with the words "Si se puede," or "Yes we can."
"We want the undocumented out here. Step up to the plate. We’re searching for a solution to benefit you. Please come and show your face," Burmudez urged. "We are opposed to any legislation that treats us as unwanted persons."
The Arizona Legislature this year passed a handful of bills that targeted illegal immigrants.
Most of those were vetoed by Gov. Janet Napolitano but are expected to resurface next year.
Guillermma Ramirez, 34, of Mesa, came to show support for immigration reform. She is here legally, but many of her friends and family are not.
"I’ve lived here for 13 years. I don’t support the anti-immigration laws and I’m not going to buy gas for two days to show that," Ramirez said in an interview translated from Spanish.
The Mesa rally came a day after more than 200 supporters of the Minuteman Project gathered at the state Capitol in Phoenix to demand tougher immigration enforcement.
For nearly two hours, Minuteman leaders told the crowd they are moving ahead with plans for more civilian patrols along the Mexico border from California to Texas. Some of protesters at the Mesa rally were part of a counterdemonstration Friday at the Capitol, chanting at the Minuteman supporters from behind a line of police officers.
Immigrants without US Borders, Mexico defends its southern border, vigorously.
A TWIST ON AN OLD SEINFELD LINE: But I don't even LIVE in this Country (legally).....
THAT'S what makes this so difficult! (<---old man Leland)
Standard attitude!
What is it with leftist nutjob groups and boycotting gasoline? They all just fill up the day before the boycott so the gas station get their money anyway. I really wish these morons would boycott gas for a whole year, that would reduce oil demand and make our freeways a lot less congested!
Minutemen = Patriots.
According to the CIA World Factbook:
Mexico doesn't have to worry about Belize too much, it has 200,000 people that speak mostly English and Mayan dialects. They are also not very poor thanks to heavy tourism and British investments. Its the Guatemalan border they are strictly enforcing.
If Hispanics have such "enormous purchasing power" I see no reason for the rest of Arizona to put off buying gasoline.
I am confused by the seemingly contradictory statements in the article. However, I thought they were against illegal immigration, especially since the legal immigrants are the ones hurt most first. If they are against the illegals why are the postings here against the Hispanics protesting illegal immigrants.
I am confused.
Maybe Bush is as dumb as the liberals think he is.
So9
mexican's rally in American
If they really want to show an economic impact, stop using our emergency rooms as routine care clinics.
Oh, sorry...wrong impact. Nevermind.
If they really wanted to have an impact, they should get all 20,000,000 illegals to boycott US gas for two hundred years.
That would be helpful and appreciated.
This is great news, yup.
What surprises me is that these dolts think that not buying gas (at a time when it's a seller's market) will some how hurt the US/Arizona economy. They obviously bought into the Democrat notion that "it's all about the oil" (e.g. Iraq, Afghanistan), and they think that the "antis" in Congress will back off if they don't buy gas. The ultimate lol.
[[The party lasted late into the night.]]
Complete with gang signs, grafitti spraying, weapons being dischared into the air, and jacked up cars bobbing up and down with people shouting "For La Raza todo. Fuera de La Raza nada" ... "For the race, everything. For those outside the race, nothing." (MECHA motto)
It's really time that people started boycotting businesses who hire illegal aliens. That really WOULD have an impact.
susie
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