Posted on 07/30/2007 8:33:33 AM PDT by khnyny
Latinos Unite to Turn Fear Into Activism Pr. William Policy on Illegal Immigrants Prompts Call for Boycott, Other Actions
By Pamela Constable Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, July 28, 2007; A01
Latinos in Prince William County, angered and panicked by a county resolution to crack down on illegal immigrants, are swiftly banding together against what they see as an assault on their community. They vowed this week to block the resolution through a boycott, a petition drive and possibly a labor strike or lawsuit.
At packed public meetings in three towns this week, organizers signed up volunteers, circulated petitions, set up a hotline for reports of discrimination and announced a campaign of phone calls and e-mails to county officials. They also said they would organize caravans to visit Loudoun County and other communities where Latinos feel targeted.
On Thursday night in Manassas, more than 1,000 Latino residents voted with raised fists and cheers to stage a one-week boycott of all non-immigrant businesses in Prince William at the end of next month. The crowd first met in a church, then grew so large it had to move to a park outside. Latinos in Woodbridge and Dumfries also voted this week to stage the boycott and other actions.
The surge of activism, which also includes voter registration and citizenship drives in other communities, follows a long period of drift and uncertainty for area Latino advocates, especially since the collapse of a major immigration reform bill in the Senate last month. Opponents of illegal immigrants, who had swamped Capitol Hill with impassioned e-mails and phone calls against the bill, felt emboldened by its defeat and have pressed ahead with local measures.
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Perfect response. YOur tagline? She didn’t get elected in San Antonio by annoying mexicans, that’s for sure.
Ahhh, that's it - not only illegals, but commie illegals to boot. And we're supposed to be 'sympathetic' to their 'plight'?? Gimme a break.
Yes, “their community”. That’s a really loaded statement, isn’t it, lol.
Btw, nice tag line, definitely an improvement on Voltaire (as opposed to braggert Hillary’s version spoken of in one of her “letters”).
AND, never forget the illegal amnesty bill and never stop pushing against it and against those who supported it.
The Federal and State bureaucracies are the new Aristocracy.
If they truly were banding together against an assault on their community, they'd stand WITH America and not foreign nationals invading America.
But then it all comes down to where allegiance is. At home or at "home".
Yes, it takes a lot of nerve, doesn’t it? The picture on the front page of Saturday’s WP shows the group with fists raised. Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words.
Read my tagline.
Their only real fear is that the gravy train will stop coming to them.
You can say that again.
“On Thursday night in Manassas, more than 1,000 Latino residents voted with raised fists and cheers to stage a one-week boycott of all non-immigrant businesses in Prince William at the end of next month.”
Forty years ago the students at Abilene Christian College assembled every morning for an obligatory morning prayer.
They were photographed, in case someone was tempted to sleep-in. If you were absent, you were disciplined.
But in 2007, we are unable to identify illegal foreign nationals and deport them.
Incredible.
I wonder which organizations are doing all the organizing?
And how these organizations are funded?
This is professional activism. I would guess LaRaza and Maldef.
Yup, their community, their people, their entitlement, their cause, their ‘rights’.
Claiming what they don’t have any claim to and racist to the core. Nothing but colonizers, oppressing, squeezing, usurping and trampling on the rights those born and raised here, and they should be treated as such.
Time for a good organized resistance movement against the jackboot oppressors.
ANd ICE probably would, if they had the right person at the helm. But we all know they do not. The CIC is now readying himself to go to canada in August and try his best, assisted by the more than able Miss Rice, to hand out country over to BOTH canada and mexico. SO lots of luck getting ICE to do anything here.
When judges like the one in Hazelton say illegals have constitutional rights, why shouldn’t they feel emboldened?
YOu can thank the democrat party for the hate civil rights legislation and the hate crime laws that prevent any action. It will have to get so bad that the law and respect for it no longer matter. 10, 9, 8,...
If Tancredo were to get head of ICE... ohhhhhhhhh, what things Mexico would cry.
CItizens you can count on. The current government? No.
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