Posted on 07/26/2006 5:51:19 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Immigration activists clashed at the site of the World Trade Center on Wednesday when an anti-illegal immigration group called for secure borders to avoid a repeat of the September 11 attacks and counterprotesters yelled "racists go home."
Members of the Minuteman Project, which patrols the U.S.-Mexican border for illegal immigrants, pushed and shoved members of an immigrant rights group that showed up at the event.
Jim Gilchrist and Jerome Corsi, authors of "Minutemen: The Battle to Secure America's Borders," were whisked away when some immigrant rights supporters broke through a police barrier and scuffled with Minutemen supporters.
Corsi, who also wrote a book critical of Sen. John Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign, accused President Bush of leaving U.S. borders wide open.
"When the World Trade Center was attacked, we saw a failure of the Bush administration to protect our borders and to enforce our immigration laws. This tragedy could be repeated," Corsi said.
Gilchrist and Corsi said they held their event at Ground Zero to dedicate their book to the families of the September 11 victims.
About 50 immigrant rights advocates waved placards reading, "New York is an immigrant town -- Minuteman not welcome," while about 30 anti-illegal immigration protesters held banners that said, "Stop the invasion" and "U.S. jobs for U.S. citizens."
Polls show immigration reform is an important issue to many Americans, but negotiations over immigration reform have stalled in the U.S. Congress. The House of Representatives and the Senate have passed vastly different bills and it is increasingly unlikely the two sides will bridge differences ahead of the November congressional elections.
Senate legislation would give the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants a chance to earn U.S. citizenship, while the House bill that would criminalize illegal presence.
Stephen Durham, 58, was one of 50 activists who protested the Minutemen's appearance in New York.
"I'm really appalled that (the Minuteman Project) would use 9/11 to publicize a plan (to secure U.S. borders) which is fundamentally so unconstitutional and un-American," he said. "We are all immigrants. Immigrant labor built America."
"We should be thankful that they are so obvious."
John 8:44 "For you are the children of your father the Devil, and you love to do the evil things he does. He was a murderer from the beginning and has always hated the truth. There is no truth in him. When he lies, it is consistent with his character; for he is a liar and the father of lies."
Reuters lied.
http://www.phxnews.com/fullstory.php?article=38505
Members of the Minuteman Project, which patrols the U.S.-Mexican border for illegal immigrants, pushed and shoved members of an immigrant rights group that showed up at the event.
...and... Jim Gilchrist and Jerome Corsi, authors of "Minutemen: The Battle to Secure America's Borders," were whisked away when some immigrant rights supporters broke through a police barrier and scuffled with Minutemen supporters.
I hate the press.
That could've used a little editing...
Bet ya this is a pant-load. Wanna bet the immigrantistas started it?
Why am I not surprised?
Here's the link for a follow-up radio interview:
http://www.phxnews.com/fullstory.php?article=38505
Sorry. Didn't see that you had post the link already...
Review the history and note which way the people were running. That had something to do with it too.
Oh how I wish I had been there. The notice was too short for me, and too short to get anything together properly. Also the FR thread was removed by s o m e o n e . . .
I notice Reuters is using the tired old MSM trick of using a quote to close the story with their own opinion. That is editorializing the news just as much as if they said it themselves--even moreso, because the unwary are roped in. A pox on them all.
"Plus I've never paid income taxes, repeatedly rape and steal from my heighbors, and I can hardly wait to be forced to learn to speak Spanish," gushed Stephen Durham, a terrorist supporter.
Here's audio of Gilchrist saying that Reuters lied about their reporting.
Dam that Bias Media!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1673293/posts
...looks like the thread was pulled.
I'd love to see better border control... but it seems kinda silly to use 9/11 as a backdrop for this. 9/11 didn't happen because of illegal immigration. All of the terrorists entered the U.S. legally.
NYC is a media hub, if not there , where?
Nothing wrong with NYC, it is the connection they're making to the WTC attack that I think is a bit of a stretch.
But on the whole, I think the Minutemen have done us a service and have brought lots of good attention to the borders issue. I wasn't too keen on them at first. I figured they were too triggerhappy to do anything other than create bad press. But... that wasn't the case. They presented themselves well and kept the dialog on track.
Dang, Must have pushed them pretty hard, right through the police line -- Then the Minutemen musta run around to the other side of the police line and "scuffled" with the immigrant rights folks.
Hey! That's what the Reuters' employee typed in.
Also, what have the 9/11 hijackers got to do with ILLEGAL immigration?
A big part of the ILLEGAL immigrant problem is document fraud. I did not search for facts vis-a-vis the 19 hijackers' method of entry but I do remember that among the 19 there were 63 driver licenses.
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