Posted on 02/21/2006 10:13:03 PM PST by Coleus
A coalition of pro-immigration advocates will march on Washington next month to pressure the Senate into defeating pending House-approved legislation making illegal entry a criminal offense and calling for the construction of 700 miles of high-security fences on the U.S.-Mexico border.
Led by the National Alliance for Human Rights (NAHR), the march was approved last week during a meeting in Riverside, Calif., of more than 500 immigration advocates who mapped out a strategy of "social justice and political empowerment" involving Hispanic groups from throughout the United States and Mexico.
NAHR Coordinator Armando Navarro, chairman and professor of ethnic studies at the University of California at Riverside, said coalition members agreed not only to respond to the legislation -- written by Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner, Wisconsin Republican and chairman of the House Judiciary Committee -- but to defeat it and call for immigration reform.
Mr. Navarro told The Washington Times that 2006 will be a year of "massive mobilizations, activism and political participation to countervail the heinous, racist and nativist crusade" of those who support the bill and the construction of "an Iron Curtain" along the U.S.-Mexico border.
In addition to efforts by the coalition, the foreign ministers of 11 Latin American countries opposed to the Sensenbrenner bill met in Cartagena, Colombia, last week and also agreed to begin a massive lobbying campaign in Washington to defeat the legislation.
The ministers will send a team to Capitol Hill this week to identify key members of Congress on the immigration issue. They will call for the implementation of a guest-worker program, outline their opposition to the criminalization of illegal entry, demand better treatment of migrants, and condemn proposals for tighter control of the U.S.-Mexico border.
Ministers who attended the meeting were from Colombia, Mexico, Panama,
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Typically liberal thing to do: march on behalf of lawbreakers.
Let me get this straight: these people are telling us that we have no right to protect ourselves from illegal invasion and then complain we mistreat them in the process???
I realize there are many important issues in America today but nothing boils my blood like illegal immigration. I'm angry they only called for 700 miles of new fences. The majority of our military should be withdrawn from foreign conflicts and be used as armed guards for our borders with orders to shoot first and then shoot again. I'm absolutely fed up with people expecting a hand-out. Prove your worth and come legally. Otherwise stay out!
The National Alliance for Human Rights (NAHR) must not have a website. I looked at 50 references to it in a Google search, and nary a one had a link.
The article doesn't state a date for the protest. I couldn't find a "National Alliance for Human Rights" homepage and no mention of it on internationalanswer.org.
I assume they'll be a counter-protest, but when and where is it?
Shouldn't that first sentence read "pro-illegal immigration advocates"?
Expect to see Jimmah Cahtah.
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