Posted on 03/29/2008 7:40:11 AM PDT by pissant
Two events directed at opposite ends of the illegal immigration debate take place this weekend in Sonoma County.
Organizers say at least 3,000 people are expected to march Sunday through downtown Santa Rosa in a pro-immigration rally organized by the local field office of the United Farm Workers.
Casimiro Alvarez, UFW regional director, said the rally and march come after a long period of relative silence from the local Latino immigrant community. He said the goal of the march is three-fold.
“First, we want to honor the memory of Cesar Chavez and celebrate his life and work,” Alvarez said. “Second, we want to keep pushing hard for fair immigration reform and to call on the U.S. government to end all the roundups and deportations of immigrants.”
He said another goal of the event is to encourage county officials to designate the local community as a “county of refuge.
The event comes a day after the Eagle Forum of California holds its seventh annual education conference at the Double Tree Hotel in Rohnert Park.
The Eagle Forum promotes American sovereignty and “immediate border security to stop the entry of illegal aliens, illegal drugs, women seeking to give birth to ‘anchor babies,’ Third World diseases, criminal gangs, and potential terrorists,” according to its Web site.
It also opposes guest worker programs and any perceived “amnesty” for those in the country illegally.
Organizers of the conference announced this week that Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Alpine, a vocal critic of illegal immigration, is expected to attend the event Saturday.
The Eagle Forum will present Hunter with its “Statesman of the Year” award for his strong stance against illegal immigration.
The Eagle Forum will present Hunter with its “Statesman of the Year” award for his strong stance against illegal immigration.
DH Ping
If only Duncan was on the ballot.. I could vote for some one instead holding my nose and voting for amnesty McCain
I can’t even do that.
I’m voting for Hunter anyway.
One of San Diego's finest!!!
LOL. It reminds me of all the race pimps using MLKs name in vain.
Me too.
Indeed. Go Duncan D. Hunter, BTW.
Both will be practicing law somewhere next year. A huge blow to conservatism in the US Congress.
>>”I’m voting for Hunter anyway.<<”
As per my tagline.....
Mornin Everybody!!!
Mornin Everybody!!!
worth repeating
Hunter had his chance. For months and months, I was writing his campaign telling him to start going after Bush, to separate himself from Bush on the Invasion/fence issue and on Red China and to stop talking up the War and start talking about getting rid of the 40 million illegals in the U.S. so that rents can come down, fewer foreclosures will occur, fewer American deaths will occur, where schools will improve by not having to concentrate on educating foreigners who can’t and won’t learn our language and where states will have more tax money (from Americans taking the jobs illegals let behind)—not to mention the 30 billion that would be saved and spent by Americans instead of it being sent home to Mexico every year. I advised Hunter to start talking the economy, but he was like a wind-up toy, blabbering on at every debate about the War and how we’re winning it. When we found out that he had annouced that he wouldn’t run for his House seat, that he was leaving Congress as the end of the year, it took a lot of air out of his balloon. It was perceived that he would instead be grooming his Iraq war-stationed son for his seat which in fact was the case.
The same for Tancredo, who announced he wouldn’t be running again, although rumors are that he’s running for the Senate.
I have no idea what you are talking about. OF COURSE Hunter supports the Iraq war, and he was the first candidate to use the V word, as in victory, while others were trying to nuance their position on an unpopular war.
Hunter’s platform was Peace Through Strength, the re-industrialization of America, sovereignty, and border security.
Hunter IS THE ONLY ONE, then during the campaign, for the past 15 years, and going forward this very day that has been warning about China and its malfeasance. One of his first ads:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28q0qxsrX6E
Hunter is the ONLY one - not Tancredo, not the flip flopping moderates, not Ron Paul - that repeated time after time that the illegals already here needed to be deported.
While Mitt, Huck, McCain, etc tried to demonstrate distance from the Bush administration by giving Obama-speak bullshit talks about America being ‘arrogant’, needing to ‘listen more closely to our allies’ and how our image has been ‘damaged’ around the world, Hunter responded thusly in a debate (and in his speeches):
Cooper: Thirty seconds, Congressman Hunter. The question is, how do you repair the image of America in the Muslim world?
Hunter: “Cooper, Cooper, very simply, to the critics of America I would say this. When you were faced with disease and starvation, the Americans brought food and medicine. When you had earthquakes and tsunamis and floods, the Americans came and helped you. And when you were threatened from outside, the Americans left the safety of their own homes to come and defend you.
I will never apologize for the United States of America.”
When Ann Coulter made her flippant comment about John Edwards at CPAC, Rudy, Mitt and McCain sprinted to the microphones to denounce her. Hunter, despite being at CPAC, did not utter a word. Instead, he later called her a great American.
It goes on and on and on.
Hunter may not have run a very effective campaign, but the man was and is a conservative stalwart, and his positions are and were right on the money.
I will always believe he was deliberately shut out by the media and our own party. I’m still mad about it, but what can you do? They are bought and paid for by the globalists and the OBL.
I made noise a while back about voting McCain strictly as a vote against the other two. I don’t know if I can really do that though. How much different is he from the other two?
Maybe it’s a matter of buying time for 4 years and regrouping. The McCain vote only slows down the train a little bit as it approaches the scene of the future wreck.
All of them are a disaster waiting to happen!
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