Posted on 11/15/2013 10:21:47 AM PST by moonshinner_09
NEW ORLEANS -- The population of undocumented workers in Louisiana is estimated to be around 65,000 according to the Pew Research Center's Hispanic Trends Project. Angela Castro is one of those 65,000. Castro came to New Orleans from Honduras shortly after Hurricane Katrina when opportunities for work were ripe and plentiful. She's since had two children. Castro says she and many undocumented immigrants often avoid attention. On Thursday, they sought it.
"We're all human beings. We have the right to remain in this country. In my country it's very poor. I came here to work, and this is where my children can have a future," said Castro.
Statements like that are divisive, but it was repeated loudly and many times during a protest near New Orleans City Hall. Organized by the Congress of Day Laborers at the New Orleans Workers' Center For Racial Justice, the protesters say they gathered to bring attention to what they call unjust immigration raids by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
"It's racial profiling against Latinos. We're calling on the Obama administration and local ICE leadership here in New Orleans to stop the use this program essentially to a Constitution free zone where people can be pulled over, handcuffed and the fingerprinted," said Saket Soni, executive director of the Congress of Day Laborers at the New Orleans Workers' Center For Racial Justice.
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I knew a girl who lived in a rough neighborhood where the pizza place wouldn't deliver. It had lots of illegals in it. I think he dad rented to illegals. She thought it was fine for them to come to America and take our jobs. No problem with it at all.
I asked her “What would Mexicans do if Americans came to their country and took their jobs?”
Her answer:
“Beat the crap out of them”
I wonder what day on the calender is reserved for “Double Standard Fiesta Day?”
They should be glad that all we want to do to them is send them back so that they cause no more harm to us and our economy.
There was a time when Americans would have never put up with this kind of crap. A time when Americans proudly stood up for America.
Break out the water cannons.
The public face is all about race, not immigration.
In my country it's very poor.
The private reality is all about money, not immigration.
We have the right to remain in this country.
The demand is political, not legal.
One taxi driver shared voiced his opinion about the undocumented workers' approach."You know, my mom and dad came to this country and did it the right way. A lot of people want to come to this country. What they're doing isn't the right way. In other countries they'd be arrested," said Jose Carrion.
There is a silent, intimidated Hispanic majority that needs to be heard.
They have a right to go home, where they can help make their countries better places. Dragging down America to the level of the countries they have fled from won’t help anyone.
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