Rallies expect boost after Ariz. immigration law

San Francisco Chronicle / sfgate.com ^ | Saturday, May 1, 2010 | By SOPHIA TAREEN, Associated Press Writer

[thecodont]

(05-01) 11:47 PDT Chicago (AP) --

Activists said outrage over Arizona's controversial immigration law "awakened a sleeping giant" Saturday as rallies demanding federal immigration reform kicked off in cities across the country.

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[thecodont]

Nam Y. Huh / AP

Kyla Klein, left, and Claudia Galeno hold signs as they protest at Wrigley Field Thursday, April 29, 2010, in Chicago before the Arizona Diamondbacks and Chicago Cubs baseball game. Immigrant rights activists chanting "Boycott Arizona" gathered outside Wrigley Field in Chicago as the Cubs open a four-game series against the Diamondbacks. Protesters are upset over Arizona's tough new immigration law that makes it a crime to be in the United States illegally and lets police question anyone they suspect of being an illegal immigrant. The law is slated to take effect this summer.

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The sleeping giant is awakening.

[GeronL]

I read 3,000 in Tucson.

Thats pathetic.

The Sleeping Giant is the American people who are tired of this crap.

[thecodont]

The Sleeping Giant is the American people who are tired of this crap.

Exactly. But the SRM is trying to give exposure to the tinier numbers of people who think the AZ law is "unfair."

The REAL sleeping giant won't get that kind of press exposure... yet.

[tm61]

by chance, I was in Phoenix the day the governor signed the law.

ABC new said “10’s of thousands” were there to protest.

I was there, there were maybe 800 to 1000, and the majority of them were bused in school kids

[GeronL]

did you see the mini-riot? Which the media called “largely peaceful” unlike those nasty TEA Parties where the SWAT teams are required.

[chris_bdba]

Exactly! This is the left once again pumping up against what we call ourselves trying with all of their mite to sustain their propaganda. The majority of real Ameican citizens want the illegals sent home along with their children just as Eisenhauer via operation wetback:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Wetback

[Utilizer]

"...makes it a crime to be in the United States illegally"?

Do these wankers even realize what they are writing? Or did something change in the last few years that made it "legal" to be in this country "illegally".

Either that or this bloody git is one of those English as a Second Language buffoons.

[Touch Not the Cat]

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The amnesty advocates are not shy about their goal — they intend to kill America once and for all.

[Mr. Wright]

Those damn “TEA Partiers”!! Did not Klintoon say people like them were spawning the seeds of violence?

[McGavin999]

Activists said outrage over Arizona's controversial immigration law "awakened a sleeping giant"

Well that's true. Unfortunately for them, the sleeping giant is the American taxpayer who have finally noticed how many illegals there are in this country. These stupid, foolish people have provided great photos for us to show everyone. "See, this is what you've been supporting"

[Happy Rain]

Word hit the underground for real citizens to video the protests and then supply the footage to ICE and then demand they screen the shots for registered illegals and illegal alien criminals.

Put the poop in the party punch bowl.

[AU72]

They keep this up and they’ll see a real giant awake.

[NaughtiusMaximus]

Getting this crap plastered all over the news will not do their cause any good. More than likely, it will turn out angry mobs of voters to kick their butts in the fall. Your brief era of Free Stuff is ending, parasites. We hope you enjoyed it. (And by the way, Kyla Klein isn't a Mexican name I've ever heard. Go take a couple Midol pocha.

[redreno]

Buy a Tazer and Taze an illegal, you would also be supporting an Arizona company!

[Venturer]

The sleeping giant is 20 or 30 millions of illegals and their Hispanic brethren.

Send the whole friggin bunch back to wherever they came from.

[Will88]

What I’ve heard so far is that the turnouts are far below 2006.

[Servant of the Cross]

some additional 'activists' who don't care for Arizona's immigration law, or any law at all for that matter ...

[fightinJAG]

I especially like - NOT - the photos of people waving the flags of OTHER NATIONS on American soil, while demanding American rights and privileges without American responsibilities.

Who in the world would think that Americans are okay with someone coming here and waving the flag of, say, Namibia, while chanting that the rest of us should support them with a free ride?

[elephant]

The one flipping the bird....That is the number of friends that he had before his dog died!

[fightinJAG]

Is that a Starbucks cup?