Anger Over Arizona Law Sends Thousands Into the Streets: Big rallies?

AP ^ | May 1,2010 | Sophia Tareen

[jmaroneps37]

CHICAGO (May 1) -- Angered by a controversial Arizona immigration law, tens of thousands of protesters - including 50,000 alone in Los Angeles - rallied in cities nationwide demanding President Barack Obama tackle immigration reform immediately.

"I want to thank the governor of Arizona because she's awakened a sleeping giant," said labor organizer John Delgado who attended a rally in New York where authorities estimated 6,500 gathered.

From Los Angeles to Washington D.C., activists, families, students and even politicians marched, practiced civil disobedience and "came out" about their citizenship status in the name of rights for immigrants, including the estimated 12 million living illegally in the U.S. Protestors attend an immigration rally Saturday near the University of Michigan, where President Barack Obama was delivering the commencement address to graduating seniors

Police said 50,000 rallied in Los Angeles where singer Gloria Estefan kicked off a massive downtown march. Estefan spoke in Spanish and English, proclaiming the United States is a nation of immigrants.

"We're good people," the Cuban-born singer said atop a flatbed truck. "We've given a lot to this country. This country has given a lot to us."

[chris_bdba]

I do not believe their figures at all. We all know that they downgrade conservative gatherings and inflate liberals ones.

[az.b1bbomberfxr]

MY ONE BIG QUESTION...Why aren’t law enforcement agencies making mass arrests of those here illegally and flaunting their illegality in full view of our faces and the faces of the powers that be?

[machogirl]

Good question.

[rbosque]

Figures. People need to wake up.

[packrat35]

She already has. She hosted Obama recently.

[justa-hairyape]

Why aren’t law enforcement agencies making mass arrests of those here illegally and flaunting their illegality in full view of our faces and the faces of the powers that be?

I think the motto for the New World Order is

Laws are only for suckers.

[PapaBear3625]

Just ask the Japanese, Italians, Germans and Russians. We kicked all there buts. Now we did fight the Chinese to a stalemate on their border. But Mexicans and Central Americans present no problem. Can be squashed in a few days.

We kicked the butts of the Germans and Japanese when we demonstrated that we were perfectly willing to incinerate their cities, along with their women and children. Are we that willing today?

[justa-hairyape]

We kicked the butts of the Germans and Japanese when we demonstrated that we were perfectly willing to incinerate their cities, along with their women and children. Are we that willing today?

About the only threats on the board that would require city annihilation right now are Russia and Islam. Yeah driving a a hundred M1 tanks into Mexico City would be a fun vacation, but not required. We can just let the Drug Lords have their way with the Mexican Vampires (please note I am not calling the hard working latinos that have legally settled in the states vampires. Just the freeloading illegals holding up the grocery line using their food stamps.). At any rate, for the past two decades the US government has been leasing out the services of the US military to the House of Saud. That is why we went into Kuwait, Iraq, Afghanistan and soon Pakistan. So DC does not represent the future of America. It represents the future of the House of Saud. So what DC does is immaterial to what we Americans will be doing soon. Taking back our country from the House of Saud.