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Hundreds of young people confront border-control advocates at federal building
By DAVID TEIBEL
Published: 04.10.2006
Advocates of tighter border controls were confronted by hundreds of young people this morning at the federal courthouse downtown.
Wes Bramhall, president of Arizonans for Immigration Control, called a news conference for 9:30 a.m., 30 minutes after an immigrants-rights march began heading north from South 12th Avenue and Ajo Way.
Bramhall was joined by five members of his group waving U.S. flags outside the Evo A. DeConcini federal courthouse.
The young people carrying Mexican and U.S. flags were marching west on Congress and south on Granada and yelling "Sí, se puede."
"These people don't know what nation they owe allegiance to," Bramhall said.
About a dozen federal protective service and Tucson police officers stood guard behind barricades outside the courthouse entrance.
There were no physical altercations as each side shouted at each other.
Rosa Escarcega, who said she works with special needs children at Tucson Unified School District, was with the young people who she said were from Tucson High Magnet School and the University of Arizona.
Escarcega said she came here legally from Mexico in the 1950s and has been a U.S. citizen since 1991.
"I'm here because I believe being an illegal immigrant should not make you a criminal, a felon," she said, referring to a bill passed by the U.S. House.
Escarcega said that Bramhall and his group "should be ashamed of themselves because they are products of immigrants themselves."
"Three hundred years ago, this area belonged to Mexico," Escarcega said.