Free Republic 3rd Qtr 2024 Fundraising Target: $81,000 Receipts & Pledges to-date: $100
0%  
Woo hoo!! 3rd qtr FReepathon is now underway!! Thank you everyone!! God bless.

Keyword: nonhispanics

Brevity: Headers | « Text »
  • Non-Hispanics Part of Immigration Debate

    04/16/2006 6:42:30 PM PDT · by La Enchiladita · 16 replies · 494+ views
    AP, via ABC News ^ | April 16, 2006 | PETER PRENGAMAN
    LOS ANGELES - As a Pakistani, Hamid Khan stood out among the Hispanics he marched alongside at a recent immigration law protest. When he told one demonstrator where he was from, the man responded: "'Then what are you doing here?'" Khan was surprised. "I said 'Look, there are non-Latino groups who are also suffering under these laws,'" said Khan, 49, a commercial pilot and director of an advocacy group called the South Asian Network. Hispanics, the nation's largest immigrant group, are leading the movement to demand a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants and defeat legislation that would criminalize them....