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Thousands Again Protest Immigration Bill

 

By PETER PRENGAMAN

The Associated Press

Saturday, March 25, 2006; 4:47 PM

 

LOS ANGELES -- Tens of thousands of immigrant rights advocates from across Southern California marched Saturday in protest of federal legislation that would build more walls along the U.S.-Mexico border and make helping illegal immigrants a crime.

 

The march followed rallies on Friday that drew throngs of protesters to major cities around the nation.

 

On Saturday, demonstrators streamed into downtown Los Angeles for what was expected to be one of the city's largest pro-immigrant rallies. The crowd was estimated at more than 100,000, said police Sgt. Lee Sands.

 

Many of the marchers wore white shirts to symbolize peace and also waved U.S. flags. Some also carried the flags of Mexico and other countries, and even wore them as capes.

 

Elger Aloy, 26, of Riverside, a premed student, pushed a stroller with his 8-month-old son at Saturday's Los Angeles march.

 

"I think it's just inhumane. ... Everybody deserves the right to a better life," Aloy said of the legislation.

 

The House of Representatives has passed legislation that would make it a felony to be in the U.S. illegally, impose new penalties on employers who hire illegal immigrants and erect fences along one-third of the U.S.-Mexican border. The Senate is to begin debating the proposals on Tuesday.

 

President Bush on Saturday called for legislation that does not force America to choose between being a welcoming society and a lawful one.

 

"America is a nation of immigrants, and we're also a nation of laws," Bush said in his weekly radio address about the emotional immigration issue that has driven a wedge into his party.

 

Bush sides with business leaders who want legislation to let some immigrants stay in the country and work for a set period of time. Others, including Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, say national security concerns should drive immigration reform.

 

On Friday, thousands of people joined in rallies in cities including Los Angeles, Phoenix and Atlanta, staging school walkouts, marches and work stoppages. The Los Angeles demonstration led to fights between black and Hispanic students at one high school, but the protests were largely peaceful, authorities said.

 

More than 2,700 students from at least eight Los Angeles high schools and middle schools poured out of classrooms to join the protest.

 

Police in Phoenix said 20,000 demonstrators marched on Friday to the office of Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., co-sponsor of a bill that would step up enforcement along the U.S.-Mexico border and create a temporary guest-worker program that would require illegals to leave after five years. The turnout clogged major thoroughfares in what officials said was one of the largest protests in the city's history.

 

Activists said tens of thousands of workers did not show up at their jobs Friday in Georgia after calls for a work stoppage to protest a bill passed on Thursday by the state House. That bill, which has yet to gain Georgia Senate approval, would deny state services to adults living in the U.S. illegally and impose a 5 percent surcharge on wire transfers from illegal immigrants.

 

© 2006 The Associated Press

 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/25/AR2006032500661_pf.html

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Really what these people are doing is technically illegal. It has been MADE illegal by the US government. When really it should not be. Most of the Mexican immigrants really are wroking hard here, sending money mostly to family members who desperatly need it. They cross over these borders, sometimes paying high fees for people to transport them here. Or take an even more dangerous form of crossing....traveling through sweltering deserts, to escape a land where very few make enough for a living (speaking from the priveledge of knowing those in Mexico who work damn hard there and still make too little). They take their bodies and go the distance, endure the seperation from family, and face a country that treats them like criminals.

 

THEY JUST WANNA WORK!

 

If the pain they endure just to get here isn't enough to make people see that what they want is really worth it, then I think this place has gone downhill and is trully blind to what really matters in this life.

In this issue, I feel a deep pain for those who suffers these earthly injustices.

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It has to be done for the safety of our nation, its our goverments job to protect us first....its life and what must be done must be done, simple as that. the goverment should however alow alot more immagrants to come in legally, crack down on all illegals but make it easier for legals to come in, but i dount that will happen.

 

on the other hand its better for safety but bad for the economy. these immagrants are doing jobs that must be done and most americans wont do.

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This bill is absurd. I am so proud to see thousands and thousands protesting all over the nation.

 

 

It will mean that everyone who helps or shows charity for immigrants will also be a felon. now I am sure that will be putting alot of churches in trouble.

 

watch our economy crumble and the agricultural community fall apart. If you could make 10 times as much money in the US as opposed to whereyou are from, of course you would come.

 

They report all the captures and jailing of the immigrants, but you never see the numbers of those who die trying to get here.

 

The safety of our nation is not endangered by honest people who are willing to work to make a better life. The safety of nation is however endangered by the foolish government that runs it, and the poor decisions it now has to deal with from the past.

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Obviously terrorists are threat. But that is not what this bill is targeting. It concerns the working immigrants, employers, and the US Mexico border.

 

If you are concerned with terrorism then read about the Anti Terrorist Acts or Patriot Acts.

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Ok then you probably need to make a theard about that because like I said before these working immigrants/ migrants are not a threat. The bill is not about warfare against terrorists.

 

And I think you underestimate the border security, where are speaking of that someone can just walk across the border?

 

Most people who try to make that journey are not just walking to it and passing over. It is a trip that lasts a week or more, with hundreds of dollars paid to those who guide them.

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^ its exactly this type of blindsided propaganda that will hinder peoples views on this bill and what it actually is. This has nothing to do with terrorists.... and everything to do with rich Americans trying to stick it to the little man who is just trying to make a dollar to provide for his poor family back home.

 

there are other ways to crack down on border patrols.. but this is just inhumane and injust to hard working immigrants.... this country was founded on a nation full of immigrants!!!! Helloooooooo the Pilgrams were immigrants!! lol

 

 

edit: oops my comment was meant for Nick.. :)

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^ its exactly this type of blindsided propaganda that will hinder peoples views on this bill and what it actually is. This has nothing to do with terrorists.... and everything to do with rich Americans trying to stick it to the little man who is just trying to make a dollar to provide for his poor family back home.

 

there are other ways to crack down on border patrols.. but this is just inhumane and injust to hard working immigrants.... this country was founded on a nation full of immigrants!!!! Helloooooooo the Pilgrams were immigrants!! lol

 

 

edit: oops my comment was meant for Nick.. :)

 

 

rich americans PROFIT from illegal immagrants, they can pay them less to do work...even if this bill isnt good, we have to do something for border security, it has to happen.

 

but we must have strict control over the borders to gaurd against terrorist, for the safety of our nation that must happen.

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In repetition.......

 

 

 

This bill doesn't address homeland security.

 

 

that is very very wrong, this law makes it harder for people to sneak into america, be it terrorist or mexicans...but the fact remains the same that it makes it harder for terrorist to enter, meaning it addresses the issue to some degree about homeland security...

 

lets put this in more simple terms not dealing with politics, ok?

 

it would be like putting a huge electric fence around your house to keep the neibors dog out of your yard, but it would also serve the purpose of keeping criminals out too...note im not comparing mexicans to dogs.

 

this attacks 2 issues at once, the biggest and main one being illegal immagration, the other keeping out terrorist.

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