Popular Spanish-language DJ Eddie "Piolín" Sotelo arrives on Capitol Hill to hand deliver a million letters in support of the immigration reform bill. (Megan Crudele )Posted on 06/15/2007 2:59:46 PM PDT by BornInASmallTown
Popular Spanish-language DJ Eddie "Piolín" Sotelo, in private meetings with several congressmen today, hand delivered more than a million letters today signed in support of immigration reform..
Thursday, joined by Sens. Mel Martinez, R-Fla., Ted Kennedy, D-Mass, and Robert Menendez, D-N.J., Sotelo pleaded with Congress to swiftly pass the immigration reform bill that hangs over it.
"Here I am with more than 1 million letters from legal residents and U.S. citizens that represent millions of voices. They are voices of men, women and children who are asking you to look deep into your hearts to bring those millions out of the shadows and establish a legal, workable immigration system," Sotelo said in a Thursday press conference. Sotelo's voice is familiar not only on the airwaves but also on the immigration circuit. Rated by the Los Angeles Times as one of Southern California's 100 most-powerful people, the 37-year-old Sotelo is largely credited for the massive turnout during the 2006 pro-immigration rallies.
Now a legal resident of the United States, Sotelo took a personal interest in the rallies and in the immigration bill pending before Congress, because he himself arrived on U.S. soil in 1986 as an illegal immigrant. Sotelo gathered the letters on a cross-country caravan trip to Washington with hundreds of people in tow behind him. He delivered them today after attending the National Hispanic Prayer Breakfast with President Bush to lobby for "just and humane" immigration reform.
Popular Spanish-language DJ Eddie "Piolín" Sotelo arrives on Capitol Hill to hand deliver a million letters in support of the immigration reform bill. (Megan Crudele )(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
So hearrived in the US in 1986 as an illegal alien, how did he lagalize? Amnesty ? Could his application need some scrutiny?
“Now a legal resident........ The “legal resident”( formula traditionally used for Green Card holders) suggests this bozo has not even bothered to become a citizen. And if he is not a citizen, where does he get off lobbying US Senators? And, more important, why are Senators paying any attention to him?
He's been here all this time and doesn't want to be a citizen?
What many have been saying is that when we “legalize” large numbers of people, it gives others an incentive to come here in anticipation that they, too, will eventually be “legalized”. There is no incentive for the illegal criminal alien to stay out of the country or to go home.
This is just one example. Amnesty was granted in 1986. Eddie “PiolÃÂÂn” Sotelo is one of at least 12 million others who came after 1986 in anticipation of another amnesty. If we “legalize” these 12 million, how many more will come in the next wave?
What will be the impact on our property taxes, state and local taxes which will have to be increased to deal with the increased populations due to the ‘extended’ families they will be bringing in? What impact will they have on our overcrowded prisons and jails...6-7% of any population ends up in prison or jail. What is the impact on our already overburdened hospitals like the Regional Medical Center in Memphis?
We will need new schools to teach their kids, and more teachers, more cops, more prison guards........ NO one has said a word about these things.
Have the folks in DC considered all this?
Time to put pressure on your local officials as well.
A popular Spanish-language disc jockey began a cross-country trip Sunday to encourage Congress to overhaul the nation's immigration laws, planning to give 1 million supporting letters to lawmakers in Washington, D.C. Eduardo "Piolin" Sotelo, from the nationally syndicated show, "Piolin por la Manana," and several others traveling in his caravan left from a Mexican cultural landmark in downtown as several hundred fans and supporters cheered.
Sotelo said he would stop in several cities before his planned arrival in Washington D.C. on June 14.
Who is Sotelo? He's southern California's number one morning disc jockey and a former illegal alien who used fraudulent identification to work, but successfully evaded deportation. Here's his website.
http://yoapoyolareformamigratoria.com/index.html
The last time Sotelo was in the spotlight, his massive protests backfired--galvanizing immigration enforcement groups and quashing amnesty prospects last year.
http://michellemalkin.com/
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At age 16 he hid in the trunk of a car with two others and snuck into the United States.
He'd later take radio jobs in Santa Ana, Oxnard and San Jose before landing a gig in Sacramento. There, immigration agents rapped on his door, delivering a deportation order.
A San Francisco judge ordered him deported.
Handcuffed and ready to go, Sotelo prayed for his luck to change. That same day he was granted a work visa.
He bought false identification to work but says he didn't understand the price if caught.
"It's a felony," Sotelo says, his eyes opening wide. "That's equivalent to killing somebody. I don't think I hurt anybody by working here."
On Saturday, Sotelo started his path to U.S. citizenship. He's hoping the thousands of immigrants who listen to him will follow him once more in a massive naturalization campaign launched in Los Angeles.
http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/news/local/article_1250397.php
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"None", and "Zero"
También, deseamos robarles oculto y aspirar cada gota pasada fuera de su sistema de la Seguridad Social. Si se puede!
A little story about the radio station El Piolín is heard on in the DC area. They have a “humor” feature they run that consists of one of them, “Juan Leche,” (this name is an obscenity, he explains his name is John Sperm in English), calling up a business whose employees don’t speak Spanish and making fun of whoever answers the phone, with more obscenities. It is one of the most racist and hateful things I’ve ever heard on the radio. If Don Imus would have done that he would have been gone long ago. They focus on blacks and asians, and get really, really sneering and snarky with the blacks. We can look forward to more of this when they take over.
But hey, he decided he deserved it, so...fork it over, Americans. And forget about your own kids.
Oh yeah, our kids. Right....he got to sit next to them in class, smirk and titter about them in Spanish....maybe plan a little "fun" when they turn a blind corner at the school. Maybe some hard fun like what happened to a friend of mine the other day in Mountain View, CA: he was pulled off his bike on a trail and beaten badly by a gang of Piolin listeners (translation for liberals: "Mexican teenagers"...but never call it a hate crime. Only Evil Anglos can do those...).
This POS should be drop kicked all the way back to Southern Mexico where he came from. After being prosecuted for incitement to riot in the mass riots of May 2006.
You got it. If it was in English, their gutter language and behavior would have the FCC and the courts all over them.
But since they are now the sacred untouchables, they can do and say anything they want.
And Mr. Bush wants to reward this with the ability to live and vote with us.
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