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Fear over immigration status keeps some from Seattle May Day rally (sob story alert)
MyNorthwest ^ | 5/1/25 | Heather Bosch

Posted on 05/01/2025 6:28:49 AM PDT by MAGA2017

Seattle’s May Day celebrations are set to begin Thursday with a rally at Cal Anderson Park at noon, focusing on workers’ and immigrants’ rights.

King County resident Hilda Ortiz plans to attend the event, which she says has taken on new and serious significance.

“Everybody’s afraid, I mean, even people that have legal status,” Ortiz said.

Ortiz noted that some individuals, fearing immigration crackdowns under the Trump administration, are too afraid to attend the rally and march. She asked them to create posters that can be displayed at the event.

“That way they are represented in some way, and they actually have a voice, even though it’s not gonna be a present voice physically there but they will have a voice on a poster,” Ortiz said.

Ortiz also plans to speak out against the notion that undocumented immigrants should return to their home countries until they can immigrate legally. She says the process can take years, which is too long for families facing violence, poverty, and drug cartels.

“They chose this because that’s the only way they can save their children,” Ortiz said.

(Excerpt) Read more at mynorthwest.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: immigration; rally; seattle
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1 posted on 05/01/2025 6:28:49 AM PDT by MAGA2017
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To: MAGA2017

shouldn’t they be working ?


2 posted on 05/01/2025 6:29:41 AM PDT by NativeSon ( *> <*)
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To: MAGA2017

That would be called guilt.


3 posted on 05/01/2025 6:31:04 AM PDT by Williams (Thank God for the election of President Trump!)
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She asked them to create posters that can be displayed at the event. “That way they are represented in some way, and they actually have a voice, even though it’s not gonna be a present voice physically there but they will have a voice on a poster,” Ortiz said.

Hey Hilda, here are some posters that will represent them at the event:


4 posted on 05/01/2025 6:31:48 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: MAGA2017

awww

no mexican flags this year?


5 posted on 05/01/2025 6:31:50 AM PDT by joshua c
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If I lived there, I would place a ICE placard on my vehicle and drive by the rally. Just to get a reaction.


6 posted on 05/01/2025 6:33:07 AM PDT by BipolarBob (AA told me to quit hanging around drunks. So I quit going to AA, cuz that's where they were.)
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To: MAGA2017

“She says the process can take years, which is too long for families facing violence, poverty, and drug cartels.”

Imagine the pure cajones that it takes “too long” to follow our laws.
And as for the drug cartels, yeah thanks for bringing them here with you.


7 posted on 05/01/2025 6:33:34 AM PDT by Williams (Thank God for the election of President Trump!)
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Sorry Hilda. Don’t be so dumb. Those sob stories about U.S. citizens being deported or murdered by the U.S. government are BS meant to be digested by idiots like you. Besides, with the recent discovery by the maggots in the “media” that all illegal alien children have cancer, I don’t think anyone should be going to Socialist May day and Sinko the Mayo parties. You should be staying home and spending time with your children dying from cancer. Besides, when you get deported you will be forced by the DemonRATS to leave your children in the U.S. to be raised by the far left village gringos.


8 posted on 05/01/2025 6:37:28 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (When it comes to politics, women are bigger crooks than men. )
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She asked them to create posters that can be displayed at the event.

Means the Soros Army is going to make up posters and pay for demonstrators.


9 posted on 05/01/2025 6:38:00 AM PDT by silent majority rising (When it is dark enough, men see the stars. Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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To: BipolarBob

Construed as Impersonation of Federal Agent.

Do not do this or you will be in more trouble than ‘peaceful illegals.’


10 posted on 05/01/2025 6:38:32 AM PDT by Surrounded_too (LE)
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To: BipolarBob

Used to, you could just yell out “IMMIGRACION’” and you would flush them out.


11 posted on 05/01/2025 6:41:13 AM PDT by silent majority rising (When it is dark enough, men see the stars. Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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Too bad so sad. I’ve had more than enough of illegal aliens and their sob stories.


12 posted on 05/01/2025 6:43:11 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Exactly.


13 posted on 05/01/2025 6:43:42 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Surrounded_too

I could be advertising ice. Promoting ice. It could be an acronym. As long as it doesn’t say it’s government agency or I have a uniform, this would be a violation of my free speech.


14 posted on 05/01/2025 6:43:43 AM PDT by BipolarBob (AA told me to quit hanging around drunks. So I quit going to AA, cuz that's where they were.)
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To: silent majority rising

It’s past time to seize the assets of Gyorgy boy and arrest him.


15 posted on 05/01/2025 6:44:02 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: BipolarBob

Smart thinking.


16 posted on 05/01/2025 6:44:36 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: joshua c

That annoys me. They come here and wave their country’s flag. Real immigrants wave American flags


17 posted on 05/01/2025 7:06:39 AM PDT by Gen.Blather (I had a tagline and I dropped it. The cat back-pawed it under the Barcalounger. )
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To: FlingWingFlyer

I am still trying to figure out the connection between submerged mayonnaise and Mexico.

🤔


18 posted on 05/01/2025 7:14:04 AM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: MAGA2017

Sponsor big celebrations, then round up the celebrants who are not citizens and ship them to Gitmo...


19 posted on 05/01/2025 7:19:40 AM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is rabble-rising Sam Adams now that we need him? Is his name Trump, now?)
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20 posted on 05/01/2025 7:23:08 AM PDT by ArcadeQuarters (You can't remove RINOs by voting for them!)
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