Protesters: 'We hope he feels for us, too' (At Norm Coleman's house, day before dad's funeral)

The Star Tribune ^ | July 30, 2007 | Tom Ford

[AliVeritas]

Hundreds of immigration policy protesters came to Sen. Norm Coleman's house, hoping he will relate to their pain.

A few hundred protesters crowded together briefly Sunday afternoon on the sidewalk and in the street in front of U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman's St. Paul home, shouting for an end to immigration policies and enforcement practices that the demonstrators say unfairly divide families. The rally -- during which participants first gathered at Summit Avenue and North Lexington Parkway and then marched about a mile to Coleman's house on Osceola Avenue -- came a day before today's burial of Coleman's father, Norman Coleman Sr., at Arlington National Cemetery. He died Thursday of bladder cancer at 82.

Protest organizers discussed whether to change their plans in reaction to the elder Coleman's death, said Alondra Espejel, with the Minnesota Immigrant Freedom Network.

Seeing parallels in the grief felt by Sen. Coleman and that of children who have had parents deported, organizers decided to go ahead.

[AliVeritas]

Disgusting.

[AliVeritas]

ping

[dfwgator]

Just as sickening as Fred Phelps and his crew.

[Right Cal Gal]

And why should he “feel” for all y’all?
You AREN’T his constituents.

And PSST! If you don’t like it, “home” is thataway!

[NeoCaveman]

Just plain sick.

[The Blitherer]

Organizing a political protest at a funeral. Yeah, that’s always gained people a ton of sympathy from the general public.

[bigfootbob]

Winning friends and influencing people.

[rockinqsranch]

“Yeison had the megaphone strapped around his neck, letting other youngsters take turns shouting chants into the microphone, in English and in Spanish, such as “We want to be with our parents!” (”Queremos estar con nuestros padres,” in Spanish.”

OK...THEY ARE IN MEXICO. GO FOR IT.

[Turret Gunner A20]

Where’s Bull Connors when we need him?

[70times7]

...shouting for an end to immigration policies and enforcement practices that the demonstrators say unfairly divide families.

Seems simple enough to me. Just reunite your family back across the border you crossed illegally.

[bigfootbob]

Or George Wallace in his youth.

[marlon]

The question I would have to ask is why isn’t there an ICE team with vans dispatched to pick up the protesters and begin deportation right away?

[ljco]

The difference between the Phelps family and these morons is that the Phelps klan are citizens and as such, their right of freedom to assemble and freedom of (sick) speech is protected (unfortunately)....I just don’t understand how Non-Citizens, Illegals, Immigrants....whatever you want to call them.... don’t want to us to enforce our laws, but they want our laws to protect them and their “protests”.

[Coldwater Creek]

Not crazy about Norm Coleman, but every family deserves respect and privacy when they have lost a loved one.

Hopefully the service at the cemetery went well.

[Jaysun]

These people aren’t just disgusting, they’re idiots. Who would expect this kind of thing to work?

[goldstategop]

What you can say? The Open Borders Lobby is willing to take advantage of the Senator's loss the gain political mileage. Now THAT's low.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[DManA]

The elder Mr. Coleman saw action on Normandy Beach and got a Purple Heart in the Battle of the Bulge.

http://www.twincities.com/politics/ci_6473258

[Diamond]

Organizing a political protest at a funeral. Yeah, that’s always gained people a ton of sympathy from the general public.

Maybe they were just trying to bring back the nostalgia of the Wellstone funeral rally.

Cordially,

[70times7]

I like the way you think!

[Congressman Billybob]

This "separated family" cr*p can be stopped two ways. It can be stopped immediately by rounding up the whole family and sending them to wherever the adults came from. And, it can be solved in the future by an Act of Congress that ends the process of "anchor babies," by defining the nationality of a child born in the US as that of its parents (if known to be the same as each other) or otherwise, of its mother.

I'm tired of non-Americans acting in an unAmerican way, by demanding American rights which are not their rights until they obey our laws to come here, if they can.

Congressman Billybob

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