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Immigration protest erupts in fisticuffs (Emboldened goons attack Minuteman Rick Basaida
NWI Times ^ | 3-26-2006 | JERRY DAVICH

Posted on 03/26/2006 5:54:35 PM PST by EternalVigilance

Blaring car horns, racist slurs and angry fisticuffs punctuated a volatile encounter of protesters and counter-protesters Saturday morning outside Bank Calumet.

"God bless America! Stay out of our business!" yelled members of the locally based Indiana Federation for Immigration Reform and Enforcement.

"Go home (expletive) Nazi racists!" yelled members of an opposing group of circling counterprotesters.

The federation, a public interest organization advocating what it calls immigration policies with an impact, demonstrated against bank loans for undocumented aliens, echoing six similar previous local protests.

Several members of the Chicago Minuteman Project joined the federation, hoisting protest signs to passing motorists and exchanging verbal jabs with visibly angry counterprotesters.

"We're not racists, we're LEGAL Americans," Minuteman members yelled under American flags whipping in a fierce wind. "Those people are Communists."

The counterprotesters -- some from the Progressive Labor Party of Chicago, others from Purdue University Calumet or there on their own -- chanted in bilingual defiance: "¡Obreros unidos jamas seran vencidos!" or, "Workers united will never be defeated!"

Susana Findley, a Gary native whose parents were born in Mexico, said illegal immigrant workers arrived here for the same reason federation members' ancestors arrived: To find work and a better life.

"But those racist immigrants forget about that," said Findley, nodding toward the federation's camp.

Several counterprotesters arrived earlier than the scheduled 10 a.m. federation protest, setting up shop at the corner of Calumet Avenue and Ridge Road.

When 63-year-old Chicago Minuteman member Rick Biesada arrived and pulled out his protest sign, he claimed that two counterprotesters yanked it from him. When he yanked it back, the men assaulted him, knocking him to the ground, he said.

The Lindenhurst, Ill., resident was treated by paramedics at the scene for a gash over his eye and dizziness, spending a few minutes inside an ambulance before returning to the protest.

"I wished he fell to the ground harder," Findley said.

Munster police Sgt. Nick Hudak, one of several officers showing up to stand between the opposing groups, said no arrests were made and no other injuries occurred.

Protesters on both sides said the escalating debate over U.S. House Bill 4437, the so-called Border Security bill, may have inflamed the controversy of offering bank loans to illegal aliens.

The bill, which would strengthen enforcement of existing immigration laws and enhance border security, has already passed the House and could be voted on by the Senate as early as this week.

Federation co-founder and Valparaiso resident Cheree Calabro, while passing out fliers to motorists, said similar demonstrations at Bank Calumet had no such problems with counterprotesters.

"I think they're feeling more emboldened with all the national protests (supporting illegal immigration)," said Calabro, whose group is the Indiana chapter of the national Minuteman Project.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; US: Indiana
KEYWORDS: borderlist; immigrantlist; immigration; minutemanproject
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To: Brad's Gramma

Heh...


222 posted on 03/26/2006 8:30:40 PM PST by EternalVigilance (Mexico, watch it, or we'll sic the Texicans on you again.....www.usbordersecurity.org)
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To: sandyeggo

no, and I dont have to..

the CPUSA is not a serious threat to the USA or our way of life.


223 posted on 03/26/2006 8:31:40 PM PST by georgia2006
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To: georgia2006

Oh, I'm an enforcemen-first, assimilate or go home, do it legally type, but I won't tolerate being called a coffee-colored mongrel.....


224 posted on 03/26/2006 8:31:53 PM PST by hispanarepublicana (I'd rather go hunting with Dick Cheney than get in a car with Ted Kennedy...[props to Auto Power])
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To: hispanarepublicana; JoeBob
You do sound like a plain, old fashioned, racist bigot there JoeBob. Being from the Deep South I know one when I see one. Care to clarify the "coffee colored mongrel" statement, perhaps you got carried away and would like to apologize for that?
225 posted on 03/26/2006 8:31:58 PM PST by starbase (Understanding Written Propaganda (click "starbase" to learn 22 manipulating tricks!!))
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To: EternalVigilance
That long awaited civil war may just be around the corner.

Look for the protesters to try an inflame the situation so as to draw sympathy for the idiotic anti-American left.

There are some leftists elitist smugs that would like nothing else than to instigate a conflict in hopes that the federal government would react harshly and further confine our constitutional liberties.
226 posted on 03/26/2006 8:32:25 PM PST by OKIEDOC (There's nothing like hearing someone say thank you for your help.)
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To: hispanarepublicana

You're right. I hit abuse on that post.


227 posted on 03/26/2006 8:32:38 PM PST by EternalVigilance (Mexico, watch it, or we'll sic the Texicans on you again.....www.usbordersecurity.org)
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To: EternalVigilance

i cant find his original post i think it was removed.


228 posted on 03/26/2006 8:34:35 PM PST by georgia2006
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To: JoeBob

I believe there have been something like 50 murders in Nuevo Laredo since this past January.


229 posted on 03/26/2006 8:35:30 PM PST by texastoo ("trash the treaties")
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To: georgia2006

Yeah, it was removed at my request.

Now, if I had my druthers about you....


230 posted on 03/26/2006 8:36:34 PM PST by EternalVigilance (Mexico, watch it, or we'll sic the Texicans on you again.....www.usbordersecurity.org)
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To: georgia2006

actually mexico i believe is the 4th wealthiest nation in the western hempsphere and 2nd wealthiest in latin america

So you admit to being from Mexico! Wealth does not stop a nation from being a craphole, corruption and crime are part and parcel of Mexico. The wealth is concentrated in a few elite families while the rest of Mexico comes to the US to keep from starving to death while the elites live in guarded communities with bodyguards, which is what will happen here.


231 posted on 03/26/2006 8:37:37 PM PST by rolling_stone (Question Authority!)
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To: kstewskis
Guess you've never met a cancer survivor, have you?

Cancer survivor since August 6, 1985.

The way to stop a cancer is to aggressively cut it out and follow up with ruthless treatments to destroy anything you missed on the first pass. I endured 3000 rads and weeks of barfing after the surgery. I'm equally aggressive in pursuing my other objectives.

232 posted on 03/26/2006 8:38:46 PM PST by Myrddin
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To: texastoo
When I lived in El Paso a number of my neighbors were Mexican Nationals who were afraid to live South of the Border.

I blame the Mexican government for turning the sewer dredges of their country loose on the defenseless border.

I blame the cowards of our government for not standing up when American laws are used to defeat these defenseless people living on the border.

Why is it shameful to feel pride in saying Americans for legal Americans.
233 posted on 03/26/2006 8:39:55 PM PST by OKIEDOC (There's nothing like hearing someone say thank you for your help.)
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To: rolling_stone

where do i admit to being from mexico...yes mexico is very corrupt, it is wealther than Argentina but far more currupt..and yes it is the whites in Mexico who are screwing up the country..we dont disagree


234 posted on 03/26/2006 8:40:09 PM PST by georgia2006
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To: Myrddin
The way to stop a cancer is to aggressively cut it out and follow up with ruthless treatments to destroy anything you missed on the first pass.

Sounds like solid immigration policy to me!

;-)

235 posted on 03/26/2006 8:40:17 PM PST by EternalVigilance (Mexico, watch it, or we'll sic the Texicans on you again.....www.usbordersecurity.org)
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To: georgia2006
Duh, I'm just too stupid to know anything about the history of this country. I only finised 8th grade. I can barely write. I did not realize that, when immigrants came to this nation from Europe and huddled on Ellis Island, that they did not speak English. I thought they had English language CDs for their computers and were proficient when they arrived.

Again, here is the point, genius historian. The Islamofascists are a great threat to the nation and the stability of the entire world. They want us to convert or die. We also, however, have another significant threat. We are being invaded. Mexico is importing its poverty to this nation in incredible numbers. Unlike both of my grandfathers, who came to this great nation to become Americans and embrace what it meant to be an American, this wave of invaders has little interest in becoming Americans. They are bringing their language and culture here and are telling us to hell with our culture. They are tearing apart the fabric of this nation. Islamofascists are a threat. The wave of illegals is a threat. We have had enough.

236 posted on 03/26/2006 8:40:35 PM PST by doug from upland (Stopping Hillary should be a FreeRepublic Manhattan Project)
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To: Myrddin

Glad to hear you're better!


237 posted on 03/26/2006 8:41:00 PM PST by EternalVigilance (Mexico, watch it, or we'll sic the Texicans on you again.....www.usbordersecurity.org)
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To: georgia2006

Fall back on the same BS that all of your ilk do and start the *racist* crap. It won't change anything. Any further argument with you is futile.


238 posted on 03/26/2006 8:41:11 PM PST by JoeBob (If you live like sheep the wolves will eat you.)
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To: EternalVigilance
I agree. That's why I posted this. I want our people to be very, very careful.

I'm glad you did. Thanks! I don't live in a big city, so I doubt very much that we will have any problems around here. We've already got 48% Hispanic in NM, but they are the legal ones, and they don't like it either.

That said, I expect the big sellout to come down the halls of Congress tomorrow in the approving of the McKennedy bill. Those sorry POS Congress critters will be too intimidated by the huge demonstrations to do the right thing.

239 posted on 03/26/2006 8:42:08 PM PST by NRA2BFree (America*s current mass immigration mess is the result of a change in the laws in 1965!)
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To: doug from upland

i dont think they are all telling us to hell with our culture(hispancs have high enlistment rates in teh miliraty)...of course i am sensitive to your plight as you live in that craphole known as San Berandino county, so i can see hehre youre coming from


240 posted on 03/26/2006 8:43:07 PM PST by georgia2006
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