Posted on 03/28/2006 10:10:51 AM PST by BurbankKarl
Edited on 03/28/2006 10:15:04 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
On Monday, some 36,000 students from 25 Los Angeles County school districts walked out of class, officials said, with more than 1,000 protesting outside City Hall for much of the day. The youths tied up streets and even made dangerous forays onto freeways to loudly protest against legislation that would make it a felony to be in the U.S. illegally, impose new penalties on employers who hire illegal immigrants, and build fences along part of the U.S.-Mexican border.Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa praised the students' action, but also urged them to return to school.
I want you to know that there are people right now all across the country that agree with you that we need immigration reform that rewards work, that gives people a pathway to citizenship, that allows families to stay together, Villaraigosa told the crowd.
California state Sen. Richard Alarcon speaks to students gathered near the Van Nuys Federal Building Monday to protest proposed immigration reforms. Authorities reported that more than 36,000 students from Los Angeles County schools walked out of class to join in protest marches. Other protests were reported across the state and in Washington, Phoenix, Detroit and Yakima, Wash.
I used to work near 223rd & Avalon.
Lots of businesses there are owned by legal immigrants. (one of whom signed my paycheck.)
Good job, amigos, preventing people who obey our laws from making a living.......
Whenever people start saying stuff like "we're humans," or "we're human beings," it means they have virtually no argument, or no argument at all.
That certainly appears to be the story here.
So if I enter Mexico illegally, enter my son into a Mexican public school at Mexican taxpayer expense while waving an American flag around, I should expect the same rights as Mexican citizens?
Nothing like STRICT discipline to get those unruly students back in line. Problem solved, right?
Give it a try and these guys would bust several caps in you.
isn't truancy a crime? imagine how much revenue LA could generate issuing the fines for all these truant students.
PARTY!!!
Alarcon is a prick and his sister is a board member of the Communist Party LA Chapter. He once told me "The primary job of a legislator is to spend your money." Unfrickinbelievable! LA is turning into Paris or some other third world banana republic.
The Mexico lobby has gotten what it wants and they have the numbers necessary to shut down the city whenever they want. They have turned LA into NY in the 1900's. Its only one more step to hatchet wielding mobs roaming the streets 'taking' what they feel their deserve.
I heard a news report that at the end of the day, around 5pm, buses arrived to take the children back to their schools. My question is - do the school bus drivers get extra pay because it was during their siesta time?
Tony Villars
Better yet, migrate to France and get a job for life and if you're employer wants the right to fire you in the first two years, simply burn the city down!
"We may be illegal immigrants, but we are human," Metropolitan High School senior Melania Preciado said at City Hall as she waved a Mexican flag. "We deserve the same rights as everyone else, not be treated like criminals."
I think this pretty much sums it up. They acknowledge their illegal status but claim they are not crimminals, all the while the bleeding hearts clubs are ready to remove their guilt by making them "Legal".
Before letting any of these kiddies back into school, make their parents show that they are in the country legally. If not, take them and their parents back to Mexico where they belong. They can protest there all they want to.
I'd start with Melania Preciado. Wonder what her parents would feel about her activism if they all got put on the bus.
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