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Spanish-Language Media Shifts Tactics in Fight for Immigration Reform
ABC News ^ | June 15, 2007 | JULIA HOPPOCK

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 )

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; amnesty; immigrantlist; noamnestyforillegals
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1 posted on 06/15/2007 2:59:49 PM PDT by BornInASmallTown
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To: BornInASmallTown

Are these letters ‘authentic’ like the majority of Social Security numbers the illegals use?


2 posted on 06/15/2007 3:02:24 PM PDT by Hornet19 (Secure Border + Fined Employers - Welfare = Self-deportation.)
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To: BornInASmallTown

So, will 1,000,000 letters all signed “Juan Valdez” trump the millions of phone calls, letters, and emails the Senate and the White House received from actual Americans?


3 posted on 06/15/2007 3:03:00 PM PDT by Redcloak (The 2nd Amendment isn't about sporting goods.)
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To: BornInASmallTown
Popular Spanish-language DJ Eddie "Piolín" Sotelo arrives on Capitol Hill to hand deliver a million letters in support of the immigration reform bill

One wonders how many of those "million" are legit, and how many are from actual citizens?

4 posted on 06/15/2007 3:03:08 PM PDT by montag813
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To: BornInASmallTown

Really? A million legal residents and citizens signed some letter? Why don’t I believe him?


5 posted on 06/15/2007 3:04:16 PM PDT by mefistofelerevised
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To: BornInASmallTown

If Brian Ross was a conservative, we would be hearing about checks delivered to the “DJ” from the RNC or Karl Rove. I hope an enterprising blogger finds out who paid for this little piece of theater.


6 posted on 06/15/2007 3:05:18 PM PDT by montag813
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To: BornInASmallTown

Mel Martinez is really hurting not only the hard-working Cuban-American community, but legal immigration as well. I think after this, most Americans will support a cap or a moratorium on legal immigration until this mess gets sorted out. Martinez is not helping the folks who sincerely want to come here and assimilate, and I think most Americans will not support a presidential candidate with a Hispanic surname.


7 posted on 06/15/2007 3:07:15 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: Redcloak

1,000,000 letters all signed “Juan Valdez”...

...oh, MAN, that’s the FUNNIEST thing I’ve heard all day. I needed a laugh, and you my friend, just provided it.

:-)


8 posted on 06/15/2007 3:07:44 PM PDT by BornInASmallTown
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To: Redcloak
Even if they are fake, it gives the pro-amnesty crowd in the Senate ammunition to say the country is split.. don’t discount what one million letters looks like..

This means we need to keep up what we are doing and realize the opposite side is doing the same..

9 posted on 06/15/2007 3:10:54 PM PDT by mnehring (Virtus Junxit Mors Non Separabit)
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To: BornInASmallTown
Popular Spanish-language DJ Eddie "Piolín" Sotelo....and establish a legal, workable immigration system

We already have one, you dolt.

Now go pound sand, Piolin.

10 posted on 06/15/2007 3:12:45 PM PDT by LasVegasMac (Give me 10 days and we'll be at war with those SOB's - I'll make it look like their fault!")
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To: BornInASmallTown

Deseamos destruir su país sin encender un tiro. Mexicano tenemos 5.000 años de adorar al diablo y de sacraficing a nuestros niños y deseamos o lo hacemos aquí también.


11 posted on 06/15/2007 3:13:20 PM PDT by edcoil (Reality doesn't say much - doesn't need too)
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To: BornInASmallTown

There *will* be some kind of amnesty, even if it’s the de facto amnesty we have now. The issue is the lack of credibility in the government doing anything about the *next* 12 to 20 million illegals. I’d be willing to trade amnesty for border enforcement, but it’s like ‘land for peace’. Once amnesty, like land, is given away it’s forever. Border enforcement, like peace, can be revoked at anytime. The bottom line is government not willing to enforce borders. This is much much bigger than one bill. This is an attitude embedded in government and it will be almost impossible to weed out.


12 posted on 06/15/2007 3:16:49 PM PDT by nosofar
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To: 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.

Private meeting?

Do these congressmen represent a private, unknown group of people?

I don't understand why *our* representatives are allow by law, while on the job, to meet with anyone privately behind closed doors.

13 posted on 06/15/2007 3:19:45 PM PDT by dragnet2
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To: BornInASmallTown

WOW, he only got a million to sign up for freebies. Now that’s a statement. I am not sure Democrats want to spread this around.

Last one in the hammock has to pay.


14 posted on 06/15/2007 3:27:12 PM PDT by Tarpon
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To: BornInASmallTown
File this under "The Road to CW2."

(Which would be the worst tragedy to befall the USA since the first CW.)


15 posted on 06/15/2007 3:47:52 PM PDT by Travis McGee (--- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com ---)
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To: BornInASmallTown

very interesting someone would attempt to justify an invasion of anothers’ country with 1,000,000 letters....


16 posted on 06/15/2007 3:52:34 PM PDT by no-to-illegals (God Bless Our Men and Women in Uniform, Our Heroes.)
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To: Redcloak
So, will 1,000,000 letters all signed “Juan Valdez” trump the millions of phone calls, letters, and emails the Senate and the White House received from actual Americans?

Given the way the Congress and Administration have been acting on this; probably. It seems we have a Political Class in this country now, one that wishes to model itself after the royals and lords of the old country. And us? Peasants & serfs. A source of labor and money to exploited for their own agendas.

That little outdated Constitution; a government of, by, and for The People, no longer applies.

17 posted on 06/15/2007 4:03:25 PM PDT by AFreeBird (Will NOT vote for Rudy. <--- notice the period)
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To: Travis McGee

Love those crowd pics. Bush has got such a big heart and a big ranch, maybe they should be re-directed to Crawford.


18 posted on 06/15/2007 4:08:43 PM PDT by kcar
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To: kcar; gubamyster

I wish!!!


19 posted on 06/15/2007 4:10:40 PM PDT by Travis McGee (--- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com ---)
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To: BornInASmallTown

Just say NO to Illegal Alien Amnesty!! Keep calling!! It’s NOT OVER!!

U.S. Senate switchboard: (202) 224-3121

U.S. House switchboard: (202) 225-3121

White House comments: (202) 456-1111

Find your House Rep.: http://www.house.gov/writerep

Find your US Senators: http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm


20 posted on 06/15/2007 4:38:36 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (Fred Thompson/John Bolton 2008)
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