Posted on 03/25/2006 8:03:27 PM PST by Amerigomag
Angered by what they see as increasing hostility toward immigrants, hundreds of thousands of people converged on City Hall Saturday to demand amnesty for illegal aliens and reject federal legislation that would build more walls along the U.S.-Mexico border. Protesters, wearing white T-shirts to symbolize peace, danced, chanted and carried large banners as they filled dozens of streets in downtown.
They chanted "Mexico!" "USA!" and "Si se puede," an old Mexican-American civil rights shout that means "Yes, we can." Many protesters said lawmakers were unfairly targeting immigrants who provide a major labor pool for America's economy.
The rally was organized by unions, religious organizations and immigrant rights groups, with disc jockeys on Spanish-language radio stations calling on listeners to attend. Crowd estimates varied widely through the afternoon as protesters came and went and dozens of streets were closed down. Police Cmdr. Louis Gray Jr., incident commander for the Los Angeles rally, said aerial helicopter snapshots and other crowd estimation techniques placed the estimated number of demonstrators at more than 500,000.
"America is a nation of immigrants, and we're also a nation of laws," Bush said in his weekly radio address about the emotional immigration issue that has driven a wedge into his party. Bush sides with business leaders who want legislation to let some immigrants stay in the country and work for a set period of time.
Many protesters also took issue with the argument that amnesty for immigrants who entered illegally would be unfair to those who entered legally. "You always hear the argument about 'being unfair to the people waiting in line,'" said Perias Pillay, 44, who immigrated legally from Malaysia when he was 18. "But the reality is that most people don't qualify to wait in line. The government needs to make it easier to immigrate."
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The only answer is to go to war with Mexico, and overthrow their corrupt, racist government, and rebuild the country so that the illegals will want to return to Mexico. That's really the only answer. But it would never happen.
What do you want to happen to those illegals that have built a life for themselves here, own property, pay taxes,watch their kids join the military, and follow our laws?
The white leaders of Mexico, like Vincente Fox, would love to dump all their indigenous population on the US. That is why Fox is go adamant about that. But yet nobody wants to talk about this dirty, little, secret.
Fer God's sake wipe the spooge off your pants.
"What do you want to happen to those illegals that have built a life for themselves here, own property, pay taxes,watch their kids join the military, and follow our laws?"
Illegals aren't following our laws, by definition.
Gee, why not? They did it before...why not again?
BTW, did you expect hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens to take over the streets of America waving thousands of Mexican flags? If so, tell us why it's all OK, and we should just learn to take it.
Maybe you could send a little video of yourself to the troops in Iraq, fighting and dying the desert for the flag of the United States, and explain to them why its cool for the Mexicans to crap on our country, and wave their flag on our soil.
Love to hear the babble. Personally, I think the events of the last two days have pretty much destroyed any credibility the Open Borders Gang had. Y'all gotta lotta 'splainin to do, y'know?
Would it not be great to see the INS or whatever they are called now start arresting illegals based on the images collected at the rally?
Simple. Apply to be here legally. Until then, leave.
And how exactly did they follow our laws and pay taxes without a SSN or Alien ID#? Last time I checked, those were required for my 1040.
Angered by what they see as increasing hostility toward immigrants, hundreds of thousands of people converged on City Hall SaturdayI have NOTHING against immigrants.
Ilegal immigrants, otherwise known as Criminal Aliens, on the other hand, make my blood boil.
Jeez, the world gets more weird every day...I agree with Torie today!
Before any war, can we try a wall?
You need to review your Spainish history. Not sure where you got the backgrounds of the settlers but only a small portion were who you say they were.
I'll bet most of them are illegal.
Deport all illegals and their families.
What makes them think they are entitled to break our laws and then be rewarded by us for doing so.
"What makes them think they are entitled to break our laws and then be rewarded by us for doing so."
Oh, I don't know, maybe a decade or more of our state and federal governments doing just that?
The Mexican flag is not the United States flag and it offends me to see it.
Who paid for, coordinated and organized these Mexican flag
waving rallies, work stoppages,and school shutdowns?...
"Wow, a guy crosses the border illegally, and, no matter what he does later, he`s a criminal and must go?"
Illegal and criminal do go hand in hand.
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