Amnesty supporters celebrate victories as ALIPAC regroups
Posted on Sunday, November 22 @ 13:39:28 EST
Topic: Illegal Immigration News in the US
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 Note: This article calls ALIPAC a 'major anti-immigration group' which needs clarification....it should read 'major anti-illegal immigration group.' We thought some of you might enjoy seeing what the opposition is saying about our progress.
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More than 50,000 immigration supporters from across the country got together with friends, family and neighbors Nov. 18 to hear Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) lay out the strategy for winning reform on a telephonic briefing, according to Center for Community Change.
The call came just days after Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano reiterated the president’s commitment to passing comprehensive immigration reform in early 2010, showing support for reform is strong and growing, advocates claim.
Subjects: Illegal Immigration, Rep. Luis Gutierrez, Napolitano, William Gheen, ALIPAC, tea parties against amnesty
November 21, 2009
Andy Arnold
Clarity Digital Group LLC d/b/a Examiner.com
People were able to join the call individually or from the nearly 900 house parties held across the country. The large number of house parties is remarkable considering last week a major anti-immigration group could only rile up its base for 53 events, sponsors bragged in a press release.
The “major anti-immigration group,” Americans for Legal Immigration PAC, saw the house parties a little differently.
“Congressman Luis Gutierrez is claiming his big phone conference Wednesday night is a success that gathered 60,000 people on the call,” ALIPAC says in a fund-raising pitch. “This is a very interesting projection considering that we listened in on the English language version of the call and they proclaimed only 16,000 people were on the line.”
The email also reminds readers Gutierrez promised his supporters he would file he would an amnesty bill by the end of October, then it was November, now he says December. Also, ALIPAC says, 44,000 of the Families, Freedom and Faith: A Call to Action for Immigration Reform conference call participants spoke with this member of Congress in Spanish.
“If accurate, we can honestly say that Luis Gutierrez is building a political army that includes many illegal aliens because legal immigrants are required to have some limited proficiency in English,” ALIPAC said.
No independent organizations verified the number of people at the tea parties or on the conference call.
The way William Gheen, president of ALIPAC, tells it, the none too successful anti-immigration tea parties may bankrupt his organization. Gheen has been sending emergency fundraising messages in an attempt to raise $9,000 by Nov. 30 in order to keep the doors open. “Anything less and we will not be able to continue our mission into 2010,” he says in an email pitch.
Between pitches on Nov. 18 and Nov. 20, the group apparently raised $16,000. You can pledge via the web.
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