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Posted on 02/12/2010 4:13:09 AM PST by exbrit
Twenty members of Border Action Network, a human rights organization based in Arizona, will join 100,000 participants in a march on Washington, D.C., demanding immigration reform. The march, planned for March 21, represents a national call to action and comes at a heated time in the debate over immigration reform. Across the U.S., immigration reform supporters have raised their voices, delivering 100,000 postcards to key legislators, flooding the White House with phone calls and e-mails, and holding vigils and rallies in their cities. Border Action Network members have led this fight in Arizona, sending nearly 20,000 postcards to President Barack Obama, Sen. John McCain and Congressional Representatives.
The group said the past year has seen an escalation in deportations, families ripped apart, and state legislatures passed anti-immigrant legislation. A few weeks ago, Obama devoted only a few sentences to immigration reform in his State of the Union address, the group said. “Though times are tough in the U.S. and in Arizona, reforming our immigration system will present more benefits than problems, especially for workers, businesses and families,” says Jennifer Allen, executive director of the Border Action Network. “The U.S. is in dire need of real solutions, like immigration reform, that can push the country forward and make it competitive, while reinforcing the value of family unity. To pursue these solutions, we need to take action.” At Border Action Network’s General Assembly on Feb. 6, members from Douglas, Pirtleville, Sierra Vista, Nogales and Tucson decided to do just that, joining the national call to march in Washington. During their trip, Border Action members also plan to meet with members of the Arizona congressional delegation. Over the next month, members will raise money to cover their costs by holding a variety of fundraising events, such as car washes.
The group said the past year has seen an escalation in deportations, families ripped apart,
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Well, they should take personal responsibility.
That wouldn’t happen if they didn’t break the law.
I’m so tired of blame anything— other than your own actions!
We need a personal responsibility movement...
Gasp - personal responsibility - never! Actually I think you’re correct, and that one is of the main problems we face today, there’s no accountability by people for their actions.
From David Horowitz’s FrontPageMag.com:
“Border Action Network (BAN): This neo-Marxist group seeks “to ensure that those who are most impacted [i.e., illegal aliens] by border and immigration policies are at the forefront of movements calling for human dignity and civil rights …” Advocating the dissolution of American borders, BAN calls for unchecked, unregulated migration into and out of the United States. The organization has filed lawsuits against what it calls “an ugly movement of armed, militia-style civilian groups” and “anti-immigrant, white supremacist groups” — such as American Border Patrol and Ranch Rescue — for their practice of detaining illegal aliens and calling government border agents to arrest them.
BAN co-director Jennifer Allen said in 2002: “They [illegal immigrants] have civil rights and human rights that take precedence over defending the country.” Former BAN spokesman Chris Ford, for his part, expresses concern that “this [fence] plan will cause massive environmental destruction” affecting in particular the Sonoran Pronghorn, an animal that resembles an antelope and is considered an “endangered species.””
http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=31774
This group is suspected of being closely tied to left-wing radical Morris Dees and his Southern Poverty Law Center, 'Mexican government agent' - vehement reconquista Isabel Garcia and her Aztlan gang, 'Derechos Humanos', and other anti-American groups.
According to this Indymedia website, The Border Action Network formed in 1999 under the name South West Alliance to Resist Militarization to fight the human and environmental injustices caused by the militarization of the U.S.-Mexico border. In recognition of the broad and complex impacts of militarization, we are an alliance of border rights, environmental, social justice, human rights, and labor activists. Border Action Network is dedicated to exposing and ending the militarization of our borders and cities. We also understand that this group is big in anti-war and anti-WTO protests, etc., which may have involved violence or terrorism in the past.
http://www.americanpatrol.com/REFERENCE/Border-Action-Network.html
The immigration reform we need is to send 12 million Mexicans back to where they came from.
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“The immigration reform we need is to send 12 million Mexicans back to where they came from.”
That 12 million figure has been used since 2001. Try 20-22 million.
Yep, though I'd consider 12 million a decent 'start'. Round 'em up & head 'em out. Yee haw!
If the American people saw how well the new laws are working in Arizona, there would be a state by state groundswell to adopt “proof of citizenship” laws like we have here in Arizona. Our state government has said we have lost up to 40% of our illegals in the past 18 months.
The notion that it’s impossible to send all the illegals back to their home countries is spurious. By initiating laws such as you suggest, making it legally and economically disadvantageous to remain here, much can be done to have them leave on their own.
It can be done. What we lack is the congressional will to do it.
12 Million would make a good start and may frighten the rest. They need to get legal or go home.
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