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100,000 people rally over controversial immigration bill
ABC7 News ^ | 3-10-06 | ABC

Posted on 03/10/2006 1:07:00 PM PST by JustPiper

Chicago police say as many as 100,000 protestors are gathering outside the Chicago Federal Center to voice their concerns about a house bill that would tighten immigration laws. The massive demonstration has blocked many streets in the Loop.

The border security bill would make it illegal to assist any undocumented immigrant. That measure is drawing the attention of numerous groups and lawmakers on both sides of the issue.

Thousands of demonstrators gathered at the Chicago Federal Center to protest the house bill 4437. They believe the bill discriminates against undocumented residents and those who try to help them and it robs them of a chance at the American dream.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: alienrights; aliens; chicago; illegalimmigration; immigrantlist; immigration; invasion; protest; seiu
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Latino businesses send workers to pro-immigrant march

Several Latino businesses in Round Lake and Waukegan are closing today or are working with minimal staff so their employees can march for immigrant rights in Chicago.

http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/newssun/top/5_1_WA10_LATINOMARCH_S1.htm


141 posted on 03/10/2006 6:27:06 PM PST by JustPiper (I do not "Recognize" America anymore !!!)
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To: JustPiper

Out of this crowd, if all the illegals scooted themselves back to wherever they came from, how large would the crowd be?


142 posted on 03/10/2006 6:27:48 PM PST by Sic Luceat Lux
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To: Howlin

Not one stinkin' picture of any counter protest, not one of Rosanna Pulido who founded Chgo Minutemen and was in attendence!


143 posted on 03/10/2006 6:28:29 PM PST by JustPiper (I do not "Recognize" America anymore !!!)
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To: starbase

Do you know Savage is on a group for this on MySpace? ;)


144 posted on 03/10/2006 6:29:20 PM PST by JustPiper (I do not "Recognize" America anymore !!!)
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To: Trout-Mouth; All
I fought illegal immigration hard for a few years, than jumped over here:

We know that this issue and the WOT go hand in hand

Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat - Thread Thirty-Five

Please Freeper's join our thread if you have not already!

145 posted on 03/10/2006 6:31:58 PM PST by JustPiper (I do not "Recognize" America anymore !!!)
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To: Fruitbat

When we attended a protest a few years ago, there where but a handful of us down by the federal building, what is it going to take for us to get this very same response on our fight?


146 posted on 03/10/2006 6:33:10 PM PST by JustPiper (I do not "Recognize" America anymore !!!)
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To: winker

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147 posted on 03/10/2006 6:35:34 PM PST by JustPiper (I do not "Recognize" America anymore !!!)
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To: Howlin

Why thank you do you remember the one that got me in dutch with the Southern Poverty legalise? LOL

The good old days here:


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148 posted on 03/10/2006 6:38:56 PM PST by JustPiper (I do not "Recognize" America anymore !!!)
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To: chicagolady

I watched alot of Cavuto today CL, tis where I heard the best reports...good to know you were on the front lines still!

Anywhere I can here/view you?


149 posted on 03/10/2006 6:40:05 PM PST by JustPiper (I do not "Recognize" America anymore !!!)
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To: danmar
Any bill or proposition making the Illegals and/or Mexicans mad is a good bill.

But they show us up with their coming together to fight

150 posted on 03/10/2006 6:41:52 PM PST by JustPiper (I do not "Recognize" America anymore !!!)
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To: JustPiper
The border security bill would make it illegal to assist any undocumented immigrant.

I totally disagree with such a bill.

There are numerous people who happen to be illegal who deserve a chance to have their status changed.

151 posted on 03/10/2006 6:42:35 PM PST by Jorge
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To: Sic Luceat Lux

The lame MsM ate it up though


152 posted on 03/10/2006 6:42:37 PM PST by JustPiper (I do not "Recognize" America anymore !!!)
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To: griffin
Actually, by having us pay for their benefits, aren't they robing us of our American dream?

Not just our American dream, but our children and grandchildren's hard-won American dreams. People whose families paid with the lives of loved ones for what these people just want to barge in and help themselves to for free, and all the time acting as if somehow we owe it to them.

This is what liberalism and political correctness is doing to this country.

153 posted on 03/10/2006 6:42:53 PM PST by capt. norm (Error: Keyboard not attached. Press F1 to continue)
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To: JustPiper
Nice post JP! I was stuck on the Dan Ryan for 45 minutes creeping northbound because everyone had to stop at the Jackson St bridge over the Kennedy Expwy and stare at the protesters marching across. I gave them a two handed wave as I went under the bridge.

But one thing I noticed was the huge amount of American flags that they were all waving. If it is so easy to wave our flag, why is it so hard to follow the rules that uphold that flag? One does not come without the other. I personally know about 50 folks who were marching today, all Polish and Irish immigrants. Folks who are really trying to follow the laws. But the unfortunate part is that we HAVE to tighten the current laws to stop the flood of illegals from the south, and those same tougher laws will make it even harder for those who are trying the legal route to get their legal status. But that's a small %. The good of the many will have to outweigh the inconvenience of the few.
154 posted on 03/10/2006 6:44:09 PM PST by Right_Handed_Writer (If you change policy to accommodate ideology, soon all of your policy is ideologically based.)
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To: Sic Luceat Lux

155 posted on 03/10/2006 6:44:34 PM PST by JustPiper (I do not "Recognize" America anymore !!!)
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To: Jorge
There are numerous people who happen to be illegal who deserve a chance to have their status changed.

Follow These Easy Steps to Become a U.S. citizen!

156 posted on 03/10/2006 6:46:58 PM PST by JustPiper (I do not "Recognize" America anymore !!!)
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To: JustPiper
When we attended a protest a few years ago, there where but a handful of us down by the federal building, what is it going to take for us to get this very same response on our fight?

Don't know. What I do know is that America has gone soft, is more preoccupied with what others think about them, and has taken their freedoms entirely for granted.

I tell people that the day you quit caring what others think about you, is the day you'll be happiest henceforth! Sadly, as a nation, we're more concerned with proving to criminals, those that can't, won't, or don't abide by the law (illegals), and now an entire "religious sect" with a prolonged history of human rights abuses and suppressions, that we're more interested in proving that we're their friends than in doing what's right for ourselves to keep us and our children safe and secure.

157 posted on 03/10/2006 6:47:12 PM PST by Fruitbat
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To: Right_Handed_Writer

Glad to see you back in town my neighbor and friend! We should have been there today CL was getting heard! Please check out this entire thread and thanks for your support!


158 posted on 03/10/2006 6:48:05 PM PST by JustPiper (I do not "Recognize" America anymore !!!)
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To: JustPiper

There's also a line in the Godfather. Al Pacino (Michael Corleone) notes that while in Cuba, that the nation's troops fight b/c they're paid to, while the revolutionaries fight out of will and for a cause, even to the death.

While our troops are crack, internally, we're going to find out soon exactly how "motivated" other non-traditional citizens here are as well. It's just a matter of time now.


159 posted on 03/10/2006 6:50:07 PM PST by Fruitbat
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To: chicagolady; All
Please check out this thread from chicagolady who was in fact being heard all over today about this very protest!

Kick ’Em Out andKeep ’Em Out-Meet Rosanna Pulido, the face of the Minuteman Project in Illinois

160 posted on 03/10/2006 6:51:17 PM PST by JustPiper (I do not "Recognize" America anymore !!!)
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