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"I would love to be a citizen," said Alex Vega, 45, at a rally in Santa Ana, Calif. "I've been in the shadows for a long time." He said he owns an auto repair shop that he keeps in someone else's name.


Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., likened the rallies to the civil rights movement in the 1960s led by Martin Luther King Jr.

"It is time for Americans to lift their voices once again — this time in pride for our immigrant past and in support of our immigrant future," Kennedy told a rally in Washington, D.C.


Crowds at rallies in Boston, Phoenix, Washington and other major cities heard speeches in Spanish and chanted, "Si se puede," a slogan that translates to "Yes we can" and was used by Cesar Chavez in the struggle for rights for farmworkers in the 1960s and 1970s.

70 posted on 08/02/2006 10:50:38 PM PDT by kcvl
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Cesar Chavez

Even Cesar Chavez was against illegal immigration. He wanted unions for farmworkers to protect their jobs. He knew way back then that illegals would bring wages down for everyone.

Bush and his globalist cronies are the ones enabling this invasion.

79 posted on 08/02/2006 11:34:23 PM PDT by janetgreen (YES, Mr. Bush, it IS an invasion, and Americans want it stopped NOW!)
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