A JOURNEY FOR CHANGE

The Mercury News ^ | 9-24-03 | Jessie Mangaliman

[JustPiper]

With incense burning and a Roman Catholic priest's blessings, a busload of immigrants left San Jose early Tuesday on a cross-country journey they hope will change the way America views and treats immigrants.

Calling themselves the Freedom Riders, a tribute to civil-rights activists who went on a similar journey in the 1960s, about 800 immigrants from 10 U.S. cities boarded buses that will converge Oct. 4 in New York City.

The goal of the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride is threefold: to legalize undocumented immigrants, reunite families and protect workers' rights without regard to immigration status. Those from the Bay Area will make 93 stops in 42 states, said Lisa Jakes, a spokeswoman for the Freedom Riders in the Bay Area.

[JustPiper]

Why are they getting so much daily coverage?!

[LiteKeeper]

Great...and then the INS should board every bus, check for documents, and arrest every ILLEGAL alien they find.

[thegreatbeast]

They are drawing notice because they are accompanied by members of the Hollywood Branch CPUSA in shifts, I suppose.

[Libertarianize the GOP]

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[HiJinx]

Why are they getting so much daily coverage?!

Because the presstitutes see the Hispanics (all 10 million illegals, plus the millions of legal residents) as votes for their buddies, the DemonCrats. They want to shape public opinion by casting this as something we must support.

Watch for polls to come out next week saying America wants illegals to get driver's licenses.

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[abigail2]

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[SandRat]

Watch for polls to come out next week saying America wants illegals to get driver's licenses.

I'm all for for it! Just so long as the poll result shows 99.9% are in favor of giving them licenses only if they drive out of the US across the border never to return.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

Can anyone cite one instance of great frend mexico
on the USA side in any war.

[texastoo]

"Why are they getting so much daily coverage?"

Go to http://www.cronica.com.mx/nota.php?idc=64563

In May G.H. Bush made a trip to Mexico to see V. Fox. A "reunion" was set up for G.W.Bush and Fox in November of this year. The above article doesn't mention the date of the meeting but I recall it from another article from the Mexican newspapers that day.

If you remember back in May, we were flooded with articles about the Mexicans crossing the border. They were dying crossing the desert, in the back of vans, etc.

There has been a constant barrage of stories regarding the plight of the "poor Mexican". I think there will be a push for amnesty in November as never before.

I was in Alabama the week of the "NO" tax vote. The Governor was threatening to kick seniors out of nursing homes. Not one word was heard about cutting illegal aliens benefits from the Governor. The people are angry about this and it was the topic of many conversations.

[SAMWolf]

All they're doing is POing me even more with their "I spit in your face " attitude.

[grania]

Great...and then the INS should board every bus, check for documents, and arrest every ILLEGAL alien they find.

They should also arrest those who are aiding and abetting invaders in this country, and revoke the citizenship of those who are involved in this who weren't born here. Send them all home.

This kind of negates the arguments of the apologists that we don't have the manpower to find and deport the illegals. Heck, there they are. What an opportunity. Also, consider the fact that they can't be all that necessary for the country if they can get involved in stuff like this.

Bottom line...those that are running this country are more interested in the boundaries between North and South Korea and Iran and Iraq than they are in protecting their own country.

We wouldn't need a Patriot Act and a shooting war on terrorism if the government would just protect its own borders and stabilize the population here, after sending home all non-citizens who aren't necessary for the economy.

[junta]

You got that right these pandering politicians are robbing us blind while trying to buy off foreigners with the proceeds.

[Republicus2001]

Although our Lt. Governor Bustamonte SWORE AN OATH to uphold our government he still SUPPORTS MECHA and THE OVERTHROW OF CALIFORNIA

[freeangel]

"swore an oath to uphold our government"--he thought he was in Mexico at the time and was standing up for all the soon to be illegals.

[JustPiper]

I read an article last week that said we are schmoozing for their oil?

[sandydipper]

Put the busses and the passengers on ferrys and send them back to Guatamala with a brown bag lunch.

[JustPiper]

Bump, your words are precise!

[Republicus2001]

uh- why don't they just use their Mexican license's here?- they are accepted for driving privileges

[WRhine]

We wouldn't need a Patriot Act and a shooting war on terrorism if the government would just protect its own borders and stabilize the population here, after sending home all non-citizens who aren't necessary for the economy.

Well, as you know, that is not part of the Bush Agenda.

Anyone catch Condi Rice last night on the O'Reilly Factor? Bill questioned Rice about our Wide Open Borders. Below is the exchange:

O'REILLY: And this is national security. Polls say that 70 percent of Americans want the borders tightened up. The Bush administration hasn't done it.

Now you know (UNINTELLIGIBLE) put some more border patrol on there, but it's still a fairly open border for illegals and narcotics. Is there an explanation of why you guys wouldn't seal the border down?

RICE: Well, first of all, it's because we're an open country. And because we don't want to lose sight of who we are in what we do to protect ourselves. But I think if you talk to Tom Ridge, since the creation of the Homeland Security Department, and you talk to Tom Ridge about his relationships with his counterparts in Mexico and Canada, you would see tremendous progress on our perimeter.

O'REILLY: In what way? (UNINTELLIGIBLE) illegals in this country running around. We don't know who they are.

RICE: The focus on border control, the focus on in enhancing the borders, on technology borders -- you know President Bush was, of course, the governor of Texas. And he...

O'REILLY: And should know that he hasn't dealt with it successfully, with all due respect.

RICE: Bill, the fact of the matter is, as the president is fond of saying, family values don't stop at the Rio Grande. We've got to have a long-term plan also to make Mexico a more attractive place for Mexicans to work there.

O'REILLY: But if I'm an al Qaeda, I know I can get into Canada with phony I.D. I know I can sneak across the border, and I know I can get...

RICE: But it's a lot better than that. I mean, that's really not a reflection of the way that this is progressing. We have made tremendous progress with both Canada and Mexico on border control, on smart borders. Tom Ridge and his colleagues signed accords about a year and a half ago. They're using technology. We had excellent cooperation on the border between our...

O'REILLY: (UNINTELLIGIBLE) on the border. I agree with you on North Korea. I'm not sold on Iran. I think that they're going to do bad things. I'm certainly not sold on the border.

[4.1O dana super trac pak]

At least they got a quote from FAIR in this article.