Posted on 04/10/2006 7:31:41 AM PDT by the anti-liberal
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They're baaack. Illegal alien public relations experts are advising their followers to put aside the Mexican flags and tone down their radicalism, but many reconquistadors and their friends can't help themselves. Hat tip to John A. for the protest photos today from Dallas:
Black Panthers came out to show solidarity with the open borders lobby...
And the Che cultists were out in full force again, too...
There's no photo, but the Dallas Morning News described this:
Although the stars and stripes predominated, some people opted to paint themselves in red, white and green, the colors of the Mexican flag. A girl no older than 6 had her shirt painted: “Hell, no, we won’t go. Mexicans stick together.”
And via Yahoo!:
Similar sentiments at the anti-immigration enforcement rally in St. Paul, Minn.:
The Dallas Morning News also reported that counter-protesters were assaulted and forced to leave under police protection:
Police told counterprotesters that they could protect them only to a point, and offered to escort them out through an underground parking lot. Six people left with police who were carrying shields and wearing helmets and shin pads.
“They’re obviously outnumbered here. If they choose to leave, we can arrange that,” said Dallas police Lt. William Humphrey.
Miles Walters, 16, a sophomore at Richardson High School, said he was scared when people started throwing water bottles and hunkered under a building for protection. “I wasn’t expecting it to be this bad,” he said. “Because we take pride in our country they hate us and call us racist.”
More:
A small group of counterprotesters shouted from a parking lot at Ross Avenue and Harwood Street: “USA, USA, You’re gonna go home, you’re gonna go home.”
Said Elijah McGrew, 48: “They are breaking the law and no one should get amnesty. If I break the law, I don’t get amnesty.”
Also in the group was Ben Blewusi, who said he came to the U.S. legally from Ghana in 2004.
“Illegal immigration is a crime in every country. I believe they are a drain on the economy and don’t pay taxes, and employers take advantage of them and enslave their labor. And as a result it drives down wages for legal migrants and U.S. citizens,” Mr. Blewusi said.
Near City Hall, more than 100 chanting protesters broke off from the main march and headed toward another group of counterprotesters. Police moved in around the counterprotesters, some of whom had hurled plastic water bottles at the large procession.
If you are holding a counter-protest, send your photos and I'll post them.
Tony J. attended a pro-immigration enforcement rally along with a few hundred in Denver on Friday:
I'll be covering the illegal alien demonstration tomorrow in Washington, D.C. Power Line is soliciting video from citizen journalists across the country.
Meanwhile, keep an eye on what government school officials are doing in your neighborhood.
In Tuscon:
The superintendent of the Tucson Unified School District is under fire for sending school buses to pick up student following an immigration reform protest.
But Superintendent Roger Pfeuffer defended his decision, saying police asked for the buses because a crowd of students in front of the Federal Building in Tucson was growing, water supplies were low and the temperatures were rising.
Rep. Jonathan Paton, R-Tucson, criticized Pfeuffer in a letter, asking for an explanation of the busing issue.
Paton also wanted to know about a student assembly at Tucson High Magnet School in which Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the United Farm Workers, said, "Republicans hate Latinos."
Paton said he wanted to find out if the assembly was mandatory, and he criticized district officials for allowing "political propaganda."
Pfeuffer said the assembly was not connected with recent walkouts by students protesting for immigration reform and said Huerta's appearance was part of a series of events commemorating Cesar Chavez Day held each year.
Yesterday, I noted my home county's decision to give school credit to students who attend the April 10 illegal alien event in D.C. Here's contact info for the Montgomery County Board of Education:
boe-at-fc.mcps.k12.md.us
Also watch your city officials. Some people are acting as if sanctuary extremists like the politicians in San Francisco are something new:
Mayor Gavin Newsom said Thursday that The City will not comply with any federal legislation that criminalizes efforts to help illegal immigrants.
The mayor also denounced a bipartisan congressional proposal that would beef up border security and allow as many as 12 million illegal immigrants to gain legal status.
Newsom, who has not been afraid to wade into controversial national issues such as gay marriage, appeared with a group of elected officials on the steps of City Hall to support immigrants, “documented as well as undocumented.”Newsom also signed a resolution sponsored by Supervisor Gerardo Sandoval, and passed unanimously by the Board of Supervisors, urging San Francisco law enforcement not to comply with criminal provisions of any new immigration bill.
Nothing new about it at all:
9/13/02 - Malkin column - End sanctuary for illegal immigrants
About that elevator guy
Sanctuary’ Laws Stand in Justice’s Way - Heather Mac Donald
Special Order 40 - Heather Mac Donald
The Other Wall - Michelle Malkin Senate testimony
The Illegal Alien Crime Wave - Heather Mac Donald
Illegal Alien Sanctuary - Front Page magazine
The pro-communist, anti-American, allegiance to a foreign country sentiments being expressed by these hordes of illegals and their supporters is cause enough to shift this issue from immigration to the War on Terrorism.
Something needs to be done now and our political leaders(?) are sitting on their hands.
But it won't stop here imagine the world watching as well as the terroists, what message is our elected officials sending?
And just for that - here, have a a 'tickle me Che' pic!
Most disgusting are the warnings from Alen Specter that his colleagues should not be intimidated into changing their votes. In other words 'ignore the voters and constituency'.
Coo Che Coo Che Coo.
Amen. The thing I find truly disheartening is that we see massive demonstrations for Mexicans, but no demonstrations for Americans.
The message coming from D.C. is crystal clear. They aren't willing to do what it takes to protect our borders and defend the Constitution.
WE are allowing it to happen. I don't mean to sound negative, but something needs to be done to get the house back in order - something on a scale unlike we have ever seen.
3, I think. I just happpen to think she's cuter than the others, but we all have our tastes.. :^)
catchy!
Optimistic are we?
American ingenuity always finds a way.
Naw the ghetto cruisers rely on the Mexicans & OTMs for supplying the poison that helps them to enslave their own people with...
She is pretty though, isn't she? :^)
When Che cultists show up at rallies, I shout, "Viva, Pinochet!" (Former Chilean president Agosto Pinochet Ugarte has long been a bête noir of the left) or "Viva, Barrientos!" (René Barrientos Ortuño was the Bolivian president whose troops hunted down and killed Che). They're never amused.
It's difficult when one has voted for and defended their party officials for so long to see them in any other light
even when it's proven they are not doing right by us.
We feel guilty when we aren't dwefending them yet they can turn on all of us in a heartbeat with no regrets.
I guess hope burns eternal in the American Spirit and we believe in our elected officals to do right by us.
If they actually recognize those names than they must be aware of who and what Che was, in which case these people are more idiotic than I thought.
C'mon use your head a little bit.......all we TAXPAYING Americans have to do is mount tremendous pressure for an end to all the welfare benefits for these people.....THIS WOULD CUT OFF THE HEAD OF THE SNAKE! These benefits (all the fraud associated with it) are the magnets for most of the people to come here and it also allow employers of illegals to EVADE a lot of taxes and enables them to pay substandard wages.
CUT OFF THE HEAD OF THE SNAKE AND THEY'LL DEPORT THEMSELVES!
Thank God you're retired, last thing we need is an army so willing to surrender.
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