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    Bay Area immigrants plan rally

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    Article Last Updated: 08/25/2006 02:44:13 AM PDT

    Bay Area immigrants plan rally
    Organizers plan Labor Day marches as follow-up to large spring protests

    By Jessie Mangaliman, MEDIANEWS

    With ambitions to equal the turnout of massive immigration rallies in April and May, organizers announced Wednesday plans for Labor Day marches in the Bay Area and across the nation.

    The Sept. 4 marches in San Jose, Oakland, San Francisco and other U.S. cities, organizers say, will hopefully kick-start the stalled immigration reform legislation. Conflicting bills approved by the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate have yet to reach compromise discussions.

    "On this day we want to send a message to Congress to resolve the issue for 12 million undocumented immigrants in this country," said Jose Sandoval of the Voluntarios de la Comunidad, one of the San Jose groups behind the march.

    Starting Thursday, Sandoval and other volunteers will collect signatures for a banner for marchers to carry on the holiday. Like the May 1 march — which drew an estimated 125,000 people to San Jose streets — the group will gather on the East Side and march to City Hall.

    "We hope to have a good mass of folks," said Larisa Casillas, new executive director of the Bay Area Immigrant Rights Coalition. "It's a fitting day to highlight the contribution of immigrant workers," she said. "Congress is back in session on Sept. 1 and we want to continue to keep putting on pressure for immigration reform."

    Marches and rallies are also being organized in Los Angeles, Chicago and New York City. Sandoval said he and other organizers hope to equal the attendance of the massive marches in April and May.

    "I'm optimistic," said Walter Rodriguez, a volunteer organizer for the September march. "People are tired of waiting for Congress to do its work on immigration reform."

    The march will focus on legalization for illegal immigrants and stopping a House-approved bill that would make it a felony to be in the United States illegally.

    Roberta Allen, a San Jose small-business owner who organized a counterprotest to "A Day Without Immigrants" in May, said she knew of no plans to hold a counterprotest on Labor Day.

    "I think people are getting a little tired of people who are here illegally demanding rights in this country," she said. "We're not anti-immigrant. It's illegal immigration that we're against."


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    "I think people are getting a little tired of people who are here illegally demanding rights in this country," she said. "We're not anti-immigrant. It's illegal immigration that we're against."
    Exactly! They can march all they want, all it does is make the citizens of this country more aware.
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