A new 'rights movement' builds slowly in South [Illegals... the new minority]

LOS ANGELES TIMES ^ | Mar 31, 2006 | By Richard Fausset

[johnny7]

ATLANTA - The undocumented workers at the fast food restaurant on Buford Highway know about the immigration bills that threaten to change their lives radically. And they had heard about the citywide Hispanic work boycott organizers had called in protest. But when the event rolled around on Friday, only one person called in sick.

Most of the 30 illegal Hispanic workers at the restaurant -- it's part of a major national chain -- had held a meeting and decided that a boycott wasn't worth the risk. For now, they decided, a paycheck was more important. "We're all united as Hispanics, and logically, no one here supports the bills," said Marcela, a shift manager who asked that her full name be withheld because of her undocumented status. "But we need to get rid of the fear." In recent days, hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants and their allies burst onto the streets in major cities such as Los Angeles and Phoenix, protesting a House of Representatives bill that would criminalize illegal aliens. In the Deep South -- home to the nation's fastest-growing Hispanic population -- there have been protests as well, though more modest in size, such as the one in Charlotte, N.C., that drew 5,000.

[conservativecorner]

There is no movement. These are illegals breaking our laws by being here. They don't have any of our Constitutional rights because they are ILLEGAL LAW BREAKERS!

[doc30]

"We're all united as Hispanics, and logically, no one here supports the bills," said Marcela

Guess what, Marcela? You support, or lack thereof, is irrelevant.

[zip]

What part of ILLEGAL can't/won't our legislator understand? This is sick.

[johnsons3]

'we must get rid of the fear' - who does this woman think she is? The US owes nothing to the 30 illegals working in this restaurant. The owner should be tarred and feathered for hiring them without documentation!

johnsons3

[Dane]

JMO, your use of selective signs is just as bad as when the left brings out the signs of the kkk to represent all conservatives.

But that is what the left does best, gets conservatives all rowed up.

[cripplecreek]

It clearly displays that the crimminals coming across our border have no interest in becoming Americans. They want us gone.

[stopem]

Actually maybe they should be encouraged to demand $20.00 an hour from their ignorant employer and let's see how fast the business people lobby to keep the underpaid slave worker.

Those workers would be so out of here it would make your head spin.

Hey illegal aliens demonstrate and protest for a huge increase in wages!

[conservativecorner]

I can give you URL's on 3 different sites that show that illegals aren't interested in assimilation, but why bother. Run on, and go find your day laborers for the job site.

[Nat Turner]

Thats right - you better Habla if you want to eat on Buford Hwy

[Fresh Wind]

"All Europeans Are Illegal"

It is generally accepted that mankind originated in Africa, not the Americas. On that basis, EVERYONE on the North, South, and Central American continents are illegal, even the self-proclaimed "indigenous" peoples.

[Dane]

I can give you URL's on 3 different sites that show that illegals aren't interested in assimilation, but why bother

And I bet you they are leftist run sites, just like the left controls the American public school system.

[cripplecreek]

I'll see your racist hispanics and raise you another problem.

[djf]

I have a question. This is strictly a hypothetical.

If I were to say that I wanted to import, let's say, 250,000 Africans to work as bell boys, office cleaning staff, and home care workers, would that be a racist statement?

I mean, after all, they would just be "doing the jobs that Americans won't do"

If possible, I'd like to hear some serious discussion about this.

[yoe]

"We're all united as Hispanics, and logically, no one here supports the bills," said Marcela, a shift manager who asked that her full name be withheld because of her undocumented status. "But we need to get rid of the fear."

undocumented workers = illegal

"Latinos are just getting past the issue of survival and starting to get organized."

"angry that the state was doing away with a driving certificate program for undocumented workers after federal investigators discovered widespread fraud."

"There's been people here almost all their lives, and they still can't have a driver's license. I don't think that's right."

"But here in Atlanta the (Hispanic) community is very young," he said. "We don't have the strength to say, 'We want this and this and this, and if you don't give it to you we're going to vote you out of office.'"

These are not legal émigrés, they are illegal people who are here because they broke the laws of the land; they don’t care about the law and they don’t plain to be Americans. Vietnamese are here by the thousands – legally, what makes the Mexican any different? What was it Algore said about the Rule of Law…………..? His take on the judicial system and theirs is frightening beyond words.

[P-40]

250,000 Africans

I think you would get drowned in indignation for wanting to hire from one race AND for not hiring blacks here in America.

[SmoothTalker]

"In the Deep South -- home to the nation's fastest-growing Hispanic population -- there have been protests as well, though more modest in size, such as the one in Charlotte, N.C., that drew 5,000."

Charlotte ain't the deep south.

[conservativecorner]