Posted on 03/21/2010 4:32:43 PM PDT by chicagolady
March 21, 2010 (CHICAGO) (WLS) -- Tens of thousands gathered on the National Mall in Washington,DC Sunday for a rally focused on immigration reform.
Some of those gathered are from the Chicago area. They say they fear reform efforts have been put on the back burner.
While in the shadow of Sunday's health care reform vote, tens of thousands of protesters from around the country marched in Washington to push for a long-awaited immigration overhaul, as their fellow advocates in the Chicago area demanded the president make good on his promise of change.
"One thing we want to see [is] President Obama make a commitment to stop all raids and deportations," said Carlos Arango of United Front From Immigrants.
Thousands head to DC for immigration march Chicago demonstrators say they hope the March for America will again put immigration reform, which failed in 2006 and 2007, atop a national agenda so far dominated by the economy and the War on Terror.
"What we are DEMANDING, and the marchers in Washington are DEMANING, is that we have a fair, humane immigration reform policy in this country," community activist Carlos Perez said.
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I am DEMANDING that Congress not pass this abysmal healthcare bill, but it doesn’t do much good. I’m only supposed to shut up and pay for the Democrats’ schemes.
No I don’t live in Arizona. You will never guess which state I live in. Massachusetts isn’t that a laugh.
I followed the immigration issue very closely so I was very disappointed when JD Hayworth was voted out and replaced with a democrat. I watched cspan and know that JD was very good on the issue of illegal immigration. I certainly hope that McCain gets kicked to the curb. What a wonderul day that would be. Not only would we be rid of an open borders two faced rino but McCain would no longer be a king maker. No one would have to bow down to him to get elected. It would also send a clear message that the rino part of the Republican Party is no longer in control. No more “reaching across the aisle”. No more triangulating and talking out of both sides of the mouth. Goodby double talk, hello good old fashioned honesty.
I see that living in Massachusetts has shown you how very corrupt the Democrat Party has become. Arizona would welcome you with open arms.
I believe that there will be MUCH less reaching across the aisle after this major scam. I hope that this hurts McCain as much in Arizona as it will nationally hurt the Democrat Party
McCain has to go down because he is the Ted Kennedy of the rinos. McCain is now the party’s spiritual leader (yech!).
My parents live in Arizona, and I asked my mom to vote for Hayworth, for two reasons. He’s more conservative than McCain, and McCain is in his fourth term. 24 years, in the U.S. Senate, is long enough, for anyone.
The Republicans will never win if they don’t start educating their ‘spokespeople’ on TV. The Democrats have talking points - most of them lies - the uneducated Republican just sits there. They should be able to strike back with the truth.
Example: the Democrats say ObamaCare strengthens Medicare. The truth is, this is a big LIE. The CBO says that would be double-counting:
“To describe the full amount of HI trust fund savings as both improving the government’s ability to pay future Medicare benefits and financing new spending outside of Medicare would essentially double-count a large share of those savings and thus overstate the improvement in the government’s fiscal position.”
page 2, last paragraph: http://cbo.gov/ftpdocs/108xx/doc10868/12-23-Trust_Fund_Accounting.pdf
Sorry, repeating this in the hope some GOP leader will see it!
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