Posted on 06/24/2007 3:33:33 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Immigration Rights Activists March In Hollywood
(CBS) LOS ANGELES A crowd estimated by police to total about 1,000 persons, chanting in favor of humane treatment for illegal immigrants, began marching up Hollywood Boulevard Sunday, carrying U.S. and Mexican flags.
The crowd is chanting the traditional "si, se puede" call, translating to "yes, it can be done."
Los Angeles Police deputy chief Richard Roupoli said a few counter-protesters have been spotted near the crowd, but there have been no confrontations. Roupoli said the march has been peaceful.
The marchers had gathered at the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street, and after noon started marching west about a mile to Highland Avenue. They plan to rally and hear speeches on Hollywood between Highland and Orange avenues.
Los Angeles Police, mindful of pictures of journalists being assaulted by police officers at a similar rally last month in MacArthur Park, have set up designated news media zones in the area.
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"Humane treatment"? Bias? WHAT bias??? "Si, se puede", deport your asses.
Yes, we Americans can deport all of you back across the border.
Yes, we Americans can build that fence.
Yes, yes, we can!
I'm all for that. The busses taking them back to Mexico should be air conditioned and have working toilets. There, issue solved.
I Like Ike.
The Fiscal Cost of Low-Skill Immigrants to the U.S. Taxpayer
Take the Pledge: "I pledge to never, ever vote for anyone, for any office, who votes in favor of the Mexican Invasion Surrender Bill."
Model letter to your Senator:
To: Your Senator
From: A concerned citizen and constituent
Subject: Urge that you oppose S.1639--vote no on cloture
I urge that you vote no on S.1639 (Immigration Reform,) and vote no on cloture.
Reasons:
1) Granting any form of legal residency to those who illegally crossed our borders is drastically unfair to all those in the wider world who cannot so easily get the same deal for themselves, because they happen to be geographically disadvantaged relative to most of the illegal immigrants who come here. What about those from Asia, Africa and Europe? Should not legal residency in the US be fairly rationed among all the world's peoples?
2) To reward illegal immigrants with the very thing they were trying to achieve when they broke the law is unconscionable: It encourages law breaking in general, and yet more illegal immigration in particular. Criminals must never be granted that which they were seeking when they broke the law--in this case, any form of legal residency in the United States.
3) S. 1639 would have the effect of creating a peasant class of cheap laborers. Although not as bad as our failed experiment with slavery that ultimately ended in a civil war, the moral argument against it is analogous.
4) "Guest worker" programs of the form proposed by S. 1639 are nothing more than an attempt by business to avoid having to pay a living wage to legal US residents.
5) Eisenhower solved the problem much more simply, and for far less money. His solution also exposed the extent to which the problem is corruption in our government, and among our businesspeople. [Reference: http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0706/p09s01-coop.html]
6) Illegal immigrants are a net financial drain on our economy. The benefits of cheap labor (and cheap food prices) are more than offset by the increased costs for social services and infrastructure. [Reference: http://www.heritage.org/Research/Immigration/sr14.cfm]
7) Current law is not the problem. The problem is lack of enforcement. If the current law cannot be enforced, why would things be any different under S. 1639?
I always find it ironic that illegals and their supporters, who say they just want to be accepted by America and legalized, usually find it convenient to rant in Spanish and carry Mexican flags. Yup, sure sounds like they want to assimilate and become Americans, doesn’t it?
Humane treatment? Aren’t these illegals protesting in the wrong country?
Today they want us to accept them? I say NO! In fact, NOT just NO, but HELL NO!
They have NO respect for our laws or for our citizens. They need to go back to Mexico and fix < their > own country!!!
Did they get a permit? Not that it matters....
Last night, the local news stations here in Los Angeles were predicting 15,000 people would be marching.
I can’t me just start rounding them up.....
a 1,000, sounds like a good start! march them back to Mexico...
Close the darn borders!!!!!!!!
NO amnesty!!!!!
“I can’t me just start rounding them up.....
Oooops: s/b Why can’t we just start rounding them up!
Fingers went wild!
Thank goodness your wild fingers were to blame. At first I thought my brain had gone on the fritz. LOL.
Lesson: Laws are racist (accept when they apply to white people.)
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
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This is getting uglier and uglier!
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