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]
Police herded students off an access road leading to the Vincent Thomas Bridge in San Pedro on Tuesday as demonstrations continued against possible immigration reforms. Student marches were also staged Tuesday morning in Bellflower and Compton.
Despite rain and a lockdown in the Los Angeles Unified School District, a group of about 200 students massed near 223rd Street in the Harbor Gateway area in San Pedro and started walking south on Avalon Boulevard shortly after 8 a.m. A separate group of students in San Pedro tried to get onto the Vincent Thomas Bridge, but police stopped them and turned them around, detaining a few.
In the San Fernando Valley, students reportedly walked out of Birmingham High School.
Los Angeles Unified campuses are locked down Tuesday, but the immigration bill that sparked two days of protests will be a topic of classroom discussion, officials said.
More than 36,000 students from 26 school districts throughout Los Angeles County skipped classes on Monday and marched through streets and on freeways to protest the immigration bill being debated by the U.S. Senate.
About 1,000 students rallied for much of the day at Los Angeles City Hall, with several representatives meeting privately with Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. The mayor later spoke to the students, saying their voices were being heard, but urging them to return to class.
Los Angeles police Chief William Bratton said Monday's rainy forecast would also likely prevent any more mass walkouts by students.
LAUSD officials said middle and high school classes throughout the district would have classroom discussions on Tuesday about a bill introduced by Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., which would crack down on employers hiring illegal workers and people smuggling illegal immigrants into the country.
"We will have in-class teachings for students so that they can have conversations to deal with this issue in a very productive way," said Rowena Lagrosa, executive officer of educational services for the district. "We are being proactive so that those students will show up for school tomorrow."
The class discussions will also address freedom of speech, civil protests and events in U.S. history that have involved public protests, according to a district statement.
In addition to the lockdown, police presence will be beefed up on LAUSD campuses, district officials said.
Students who took part in the mass demonstration on Monday and last Friday could face discipline ranging from suspension to exclusion from cebtain school-sponsored functions, Lagrosa said.
The LAPD was placed on citywide tactical alert during Monday's protest, which led to five arrests during a demonstration at Van Nuys City Hall, LAPD Lt. Paul Vernon said.
Some students also snarled traffic when they marched on the Harbor (110) and Hollywood (101) freeways in downtown Los Angeles. Other students were reported marching on freeways in San Pedro and Orange County.
"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."
The Sensenbrenner bill, HR 4437, would require employers to verify Social Security numbers with the Department of Homeland Security, increase penalities for immigrant smuggling and stiffen penalities for undocumented immigrants who reenter the United States after having been removed.
Under the bill, approved last December by the House of Representatives, local law enforcement agencies would be reimbursed for detaining illegal immigrants. Refugees with aggravated felony convictions would also be barred from receiving green cards.
The U.S. Senate's Judiciary Committee softened the immigration reform bill on Monday by voting to create a path for some of the nation's estimated 12 million illegal immigrants to become citizens without first leaving the country.
Under the version voted on by the committee, additional foreign workers would be allowed to enter the United States temporarily under a program that also could lead to citizenship.
Additionally, the committee adopted an amendment by Sen Richard Durbin, D- Ill., that would protect charitable organizations and churches from criminal charges for providing aid to illegal immigrants.
The bill will now move to the Senate floor, where an intensive debate likely to find Republicans fighting each other is expected to begin this week.
A woman called in to Doug McIntyre's show this morning and said Spanish-language radio is saying the same thing; another walkout planned for Friday.
Maybe I should get any errands done either today or tomorrow. I would not want to be on the same streets with these cretins.
I guess the Treaty of Hidalgo is no longer valid? Does President Bush know about this?
Yeah, it's nice that the LAUSD spokespeople lie on TV about it, too.
This is just the very beginning. By the way, Doug McIntyre's show was great...Seems people are slowly waking up out of their coma.
Some walked out today too...headed to LAX....some others in the Valley.
middle schoolers!
Can you see the mexicans protest through WEST Hollywood? The queers would be livid that they have to have these poorly dressed people with no fashion sense in their neighborhoods clogging the sidewalks and limiting access to the coffee shops and hair removal kiosks.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1605489/posts
Wednesday thread!
In response to all your replies to me, I am here to tell you, that many of the jobs Mexicans are doing will not be done by americans those people that are in USA illegally should be granted Work Visas/Amnesty IMO....if they want to reap the benefits of the USA, they should be given green cards, and pay taxes for the services they are benefiting by.
I believe the illegals with no jobs or the ones that have been in trouble with the law should be sent back home no if's and's or but's. My brother-in law has a construction company and his best labors are the Mexicans they showed up to work on time and worked hard and did no complaining.
BTW: Do you know any high school kids that have a PT job dishwashing or mowing lawns and cutting trees ? If you do my hat's off to ya.
You're lying. You've been told that several times here, but refuse to fess up to it. You also apparently have some cognitive problems.
"BTW: Do you know any high school kids that have a PT job dishwashing or mowing lawns and cutting trees?"
Yes I do. I could throw a rock from where I live and hit 3 different restaurants that employ high school and college kids in both the front and the back. We still cut our own trees and mow our own lawns for the most part. We're not into slave labor around here.
Fess up to what???? I commented on this thread because I believe that many Mexicans are doing the jobs that americans will not do! bottom line, and they should be able to stay...But I grew up in a state and a city with Mexicans and know the contribution many make here in California..Hopefully you can recommend you're buddies to pick fruit and wash dishes who are out of work..
And to the many good mexicans I say *Viva La Raza*
Funny that you bring *racism* and *loyalty* into this thread. Maybe you should read more about the History of California and *Los Angeles* The City of Angels in Spanish in fact every California city is a spanish name...
IMO you have stated some very bigoted comments on this topic.
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What? this law has NOTHING to do with LEGAL immigrants... and if you are knowingly taking money from an illegal "boss" you deserve all you got coming to you.. because you can bet they are not paying the same taxes normal businesses would.. In my honest in your face opinion.
This law is just a half cocked watered down piece of junk of what I would propose... 50 yards of landmines would be a nice start... and I am not kidding... this is an invasion... and your children will suffer for it.
As Texas resident I have worked with, prayed with and helped out many 'illegals', over the years. I worked with them in HORRID and low paying jobs where the owners and supervisors treated them like dirt. They just kept working no matter how badly they were treated, they had no recourse. This goes on day after day in so many companies, it makes me sick. It is akin to slave labor. But as long as companies have this cheep slave labor, it keeps our wages down. And HECK no, I will not subject myself to THAT kind of treatment with no raises and very low wages. THAT'S what we American citizens don't or won't tolerate. I'm not a dog or a slave to be kicked around.
I do not dispute that...What I have always been trying to convey here is that many illegals are doing jobs that americans will not do.
IMO-The Mexicans that are already here working a stable job and have been in no trouble should be given amnesty...
When I go to the Farmer's Market in my area, the mexican growers that bring thier fruits and veggies to sell work hard and are so grateful for what they do sell and I hope they are given a fair shot to become legal citizens.
I absolutely agree they should be given a fair shot to become 'legal' citizens as many, many have done. It is a slap in the face to those who did it the right way and worked to gain citizenship, to just grant amnesty to those who chose to disobey our laws. The ones I personally know that did go through the legal and proper channels are very proud of their accomplishment AND in turn are good hard working english speaking american citizens who refuse to be treated like slave labor.
You're reply here is one of the best responses to this thread.
Thank You!
And I agree with you 110%
I hope you get from my reply I do not agree with granting them amnesty in any form what so ever. That's a free ticket they do not have a right to. They do however have every right to go through the proper channels after returning to their native country and getting in line just like everyone else had to.
I have to admit that if the farmers market went away because they did. I sure would miss it.
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