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Immigration rally again set for May Day
Stephen Wall, Staff Writer
Article Launched: 04/29/2008 12:18:54 AM PDT


Local Latino activists will travel to Los Angeles on Thursday to join a massive movement for immigrant rights.
A caravan of Latino groups will leave the parking lot of Carousel Mall in San Bernardino at 11 a.m. and head to downtown Los Angeles to participate in an afternoon rally. Similar marches are being held in other parts of the country.

Students and faculty from the Claremont Colleges are planning to travel separately to Los Angeles.

Organizers of the May Day "Gran Marcha" expect to attract between 20,000 and 100,000 people, who will urge Congress and President Bush to enact comprehensive immigration reform.

Protesters are also demanding legalization of the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in the United States and other measures to ensure their fair and humane treatment.

"This march is meant to raise consciousness of how the immigration population is being targeted in this time of economic crisis," said Jose Zapata Calderon, a professor of sociology and Chicano Studies at Pitzer College in Claremont. "Hopefully, we'll be able to get some type of legislation passed that will allow the immigrants to work as human beings here and not just be exploited."

A coalition of students from Pomona, Scripps, Claremont McKenna, Harvey Mudd and Pitzer colleges are expected to go to the rallies.

This is the third straight year protesters have converged to press for immigration reform.

Last year's rallies in Los Angeles were marred by violence and claims of police brutality as officers tried to clear marchers and journalists out of MacArthur Park.

Officers have been training to prepare for this year's protest.

In 2006, an estimated 1 million people participated in a largely peaceful march.

"There has been a lot more communication and preparation this time. I expect that everything will go very smoothly," Calderon said.

Libreria del Pueblo, a nonprofit Latino advocacy group in San Bernardino, is helping organize the caravan departing from the Carousel Mall.

"We need to do something and not just be passive," said the Rev. Patricio Guillen, a Catholic priest who runs the organization. "We want to integrate the immigrants into society and help them become part of the community so they aren't forced to live in the shadows."

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We need to do something and not just be passive," said the Rev. Patricio Guillen, a Catholic priest who runs the organization. "We want to integrate the immigrants into society and help them become part of the community so they aren't forced to live in the shadows."

Here we go again with the living in the "shadows" BS!

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We need to do something and not just be passive," said the Rev. Patricio Guillen, a Catholic priest who runs the organization. "We want to integrate the immigrants into society and help them become part of the community so they aren't forced to live in the shadows."

How about getting them to leave the country and re enter the legal way....than there would be no need for them to slink around in the shadows!

NOW THAT WOULD BE DOING SOMETHING CONSTRUCTIVE!

I don't think you will find to many of them in the shadows on May 1st

LOL SOSADFORUS! They do seem to find their way "out of the shadows" when it's convenient for them to do so now don't they!

Especially in Mexifornia there isn't any reason to 'live in the shadows.'

"We need to do something and not just be passive,


Absolutely!!!!!!!!!!!! Give each and every marcher a big Mexican flag to wave proudly. Let there be a sea of beautiful Mexican flags flapping in the breeze. And have everyone be as loud and radical as possible. Show your hate for the USA and do it BIG TIME. Let the Gringos know you mean business. Let them know that this is your land. Demand your rights. This is your day in the sun.

If the illegal invaders are out parading around again the Revolutionaries in the government certainly should be hiding in the shadows!!!!!

Or hiding under a rock someplace!!!

I swear! Have they all gone bad?

It seems we don't have even one agency left that can police our once great nation.