Posted on 05/18/2007 11:22:47 AM PDT by Yaelle
LOS ANGELES, May 17 (Xinhua) -- About 2,000 people returned to a downtown Los Angeles park Thursday evening to continue a May Dayrally that was interrupted by police, just hours after federal lawmakers announced a new compromised immigration bill in Washington.
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa led a 10-block procession to MacArthur Park, where demonstration organizers held a candlelight vigil during the festive gathering.
"One Los Angeles marched together in peace to stand up for the idea that in a great and generous America, we have every right to march peaceably, to speak out against the government, to ask to be a part of the American dream," the mayor said while standing alongside police chief William Bratton.
Demonstrators, journalists and police officers were injured at the end of a march supporting the rights of illegal immigrants in the same park on May 1, when police tried to disperse some people who moved off the sidewalk into the street, police said.
After bottles were thrown at police patrolling the park, officers clad in riot gear responded by wielding batons and firing 146 rounds of foam-rubber bullets to disperse the crowd.
The conflict later became a public relation headache for LAPD as demonstrators and journalists injured during the incident filed complaints, prompting investigations by the Los Angeles Police Commission and the FBI.
Thursday's demonstration, mostly participated by Latinos, was held the same day that an agreement on a bipartisan Senate bill between key senators and the White House was announced.
The bill would allow illegal immigrants to live legally in the United States, after paying a 5,000-dollar fine, and to receive temporary-resident permits while they apply for a "Z" visa.
Heads of illegal-immigrant households would have eight to 13 years to return to their home countries and apply for permanent legal residence for family members.
The proposal also shifted the emphasis from family unification to a merit-based system that would award points to illegal immigrants based on education level, work experience, English proficiency and family ties.
Pro-immigration groups said the bill does not go far enough, while those against illegal immigration said it goes too far.
Criticism against the bill from both sides suggested that Capitol Hill's latest push on the lingering immigration reform issue, although representing a potential breakthrough, could again end in a stalemate.
You guys are something else -think you can win an argument by calling me racist-are you guys part of the NAACP?because I try not to win an argument by using race as a factor but -when people label latinos criminals and disease ridden that just false!latinos are the highest employed -hard working -god fearing people in America-all this baloney of illegal whining is just BLAH!My people are not whiners-its not who we are if anything I think not being whiners is our downfall-if latinos started making a stink against deportations and the rhetoric being used by congress-and others we’d be in the same position as blacks who use “racism” to counter and win every argument.Being whiners is not at the core of the latino pysche.We take the hardest labor centered jobs and dont whine-we are the nations -mechanics,construction workers -plumbers ,agriculture workers and military men.Latinos whiners?please!The core of the latino pysche is “AGUANTAR” which means “to deal with it.”
oh my calling me disease ridden and criminal and labeling all latinos in that fashion is not disruptive to a civil argument?calling me chicano-mecha member and La RAZA racist is not disruptive?okay you dumb klansmen-nazi!lol...see Id never use those words in a valid argument you are nothing short of a WHITE Jessie Jackson race baitor-using your poor old white man complex to try and make a point -how ridicolous its straight out the Jesse Jackson handbook -are you really even a conservative?cuz you use race just like a liberal”oh poor white man,that doesnt get affirmative action”oh im a victim of reverse racism ..blah blah blah....race baitor
“You guys are something else -think you can win an argument by calling me racist-are you guys part of the NAACP?because I try not to win an argument by using race as a factor “
Funny, lets look at your last few posts on this thread:YOUR race is so screwed up!Native AMericans are the only race of people born with alcoholism running thru their veins-and you wanna make judgements on another race?please-your PEOPLE cant get off the dole-and then get the assisstance goverment gives them and drinks it away-now you arent going to be another one of those people wo denies the obvious or statistically provable are you?NATIVES are right alongside blacks in criminal behaviour -disease “
I can see you like Native AMericans : )
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“you white guys came to land as invaders and then stole what land the people already owned claiming it was yours!Chicanos have been in LA from the very begining.As far as anchor babies -anyone born in the US is a US citizen including your wet behind the fanny great grandma who came here-and had your sorry ass grandpa in America.”
So much for white people too! You call us cowards and afraid of hispanics on this thread too! And you hate black people too! Nice : )
And yes, you are a racist!
The second picture is pretty bad too. How do you think that made Americans feel? WE, unlike Mexico are a nation of laws, and your people come here wearing bandannas. Who do they think they are, the Frito Bandito? They come to OUR country and DEMAND RIGHTS! What nerve! This is OUR COUNTRY, NOT YOURS. Oh, and btw we NEVER stole your country. We kicked your @ss and took it away! 
I think Mr. La Raza is long gone : )
MEOOOW!!!.
Let's get something straight right now. I NEVER said ONE WORD about "Hispanics." NOT ONE WORD! YOU are the one who is saying "Hispanics."
I said Mexicans. Mexicans as in citizens of Mexico, and FYI, they do bring disease into America. They also bring LOTS of crime into America. THAT is a FACT. I'm NOT the one saying that either. It's the police and you can read it in the paper just about any day of the week. That's how much there is. THAT'S a FACT. You can't deny that, because it's a FACT.
first of all you have no right to call any race names when YOUR race is so screwed up!
Oh yeah, right. Just like you haven't castigated blacks, whites and now Native Americans. YOU are the one who is a racist.
Native AMericans are the only race of people born with alcoholism running thru their veins-and you wanna make judgements on another race?
See what I mean? You think that's not racist?
please-your PEOPLE cant get off the dole-and then get the assisstance goverment gives them and drinks it away-now you arent going to be another one of those people wo denies the obvious or statistically provable are you?
Wow, you really hate Native Americans don't you. That's real funny that you talk about them being on the government assistance programs, but More Mexicans are on welfare than there are Native Americans in America!
NATIVES are right alongside blacks in criminal behaviour -disease -illeteracy-poverty and not to mention there problems with fire water-Yes all are not like that -but -thing is majoritys of natives are -and thats not racist!
OMGosh, now you slamming blacks again. A couple of posts ago, you were saying how Mexicans were killing blacks. They're also killing cops, and other Americans. Mexicans kill a lot of Americans in car wrecks. They rape American women AND CHILDREN, they murder Just because you say "It's not racist, doesn't mean that it isn't. Americans. THAT IS A FACT.
its a proven fact backed by long research-In Alcoholics Anonymous-factors given for dependency are -prior family alcoholism and Native American background-and thats not a lie-so before I start calling people-criminal and disease ridden Id really consider WHERE my own race lies!Hispanics are contributing to this country immeasureably-cant say the same for Natives though-oh yea except for them slot machines-we know what a bessing those are.
I know all about Native Americans. Only because I've lived around them all my life. You see, I'm really white. I just wondered what you would have to say about them. Just as I thought, you are racist agains them too. Loser!
LOL! THAT's the best part of your post. Hilarious! ;o)
“You want to compare cultures? Compare the infrastructures of Tijuana and San Diego.
Got plumbing?
LOL!! This guy hates everyone unless they are Mexicans, and illegal Mexicans.
I have never in my 11,000 + posts called anybody a racist before. This is the exception : )
Maybe the "mother ship" that's picking up Muslims when they leave earth snagged them. LOL!
>>From what I gather there were no bones found
Has this been refuted then?:
Recently, archaeologists discovered several piles of human bones at the site. These bones, they say, show clear evidence of cannibalism. http://www.catherinedold.com/fcannibals.htm
There’s an archaeologist named Turner that makes a compelling case for cannibalism.
Recently, archaeologists discovered several piles of human bones at the site. These bones, they say, show clear evidence of cannibalism.
http://www.catherinedold.com/fcannibals.htm
There’s an archaeologist named Turner that makes a compelling case for cannibalism.
WoW! That's news to me. I've been to the one in Chaco Canyon, NM and I've also been to the one in CO, but it has been a while since I was there. This is the first I've heard of it, but it definitely sounds to me like it might have been cannibalism. I'm not about to argue with the pros. :o)
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