Thread: Anti-immigration advocates hold rally in Kansas City

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Posted on Mon, Apr. 17, 2006

Anti-immigration advocates hold rally in Kansas City

GARANCE BURKE
Associated Press

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Several hundred advocates for tighter immigration controls and stiffer security on the U.S.-Mexico border gathered in Kansas City on Monday to press for immigration reforms.

"A year ago there was hardly any talk about border security," said Tony Dolz, a California businessman who stopped in Kansas City on a national tour for the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps. "Now everyone knows our borders are being violated and any of those people could be terrorists."

Carrying signs that read "I want the job an illegal took" and "Go Back to Your Casa," supporters said the crush of illegal immigrants from Mexico was driving down wages and putting a strain on government.

The counter-protest, small compared to the wave of national immigration rights rallies in recent weeks, was organized by the Mid-America Immigration Reform Coalition and Kris Kobach, a law professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City who was an immigration adviser to former Attorney General John Ashcroft.

Dolz told the crowd he would take their message from Country Club Plaza to Washington, along with the 15,000 signatures he'd gathered for a petition urging Congress to station troops along the border.

Several protesters said congressional proposals to grant illegal immigrants a path toward citizenship had motivated them to get active in local politics.

"We pay for their hospitals, their education, everything they use while they're here," said Bonner Springs, Kan., resident Rhonda Owsley, who said Monday's event was the first rally she has ever attended. "Our taxes are too high and they're not paying them."

Others decided their battle was better waged outside the Midwest. Steven Williams, of Poplar Bluff, said he would miss the rally because he was driving to Falfurrias, Texas, early Tuesday to join the Minutemen, the controversial civilian watch group whose members stake out the desert in round-the-clock shifts to report illegal immigrants to immigration officials.

"The whole thing impacts a Christians' response as a responsible member of this country," said Williams, a minister at the First Christian Church. "Drugs, gangs and violence are all coming across the borders, and our government isn't doing anything about it."

Again I see the effort to cast us as racist xenophobes and "anti immigrants". That is despite our wanting merely that what is already one of the most generous immigration anywhere policies in the world to be enforced.

They only use "racist" when they don't have a leg to stand on, with their arguments.

We have laws, there is absolutely no way they can legally justify their being here, so they brand us.

After all the web pages I have seen about their people.....I would say they are the most racists people I have ever seen!

For once in there blessed life. I wish they could get the story straight. It is and never has been Anti-Immigrant. I don't think they can Say ILLEGAl IMMIGRANT

The lie starts with the headline "Anti Immigration"

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Originally Posted by Richard

Again I see the effort to cast us as racist xenophobes and "anti immigrants". That is despite our wanting merely that what is already one of the most generous immigration anywhere policies in the world to be enforced.

Do you know one can get a "Z" visa for $ 100 as per the proposed law?

Please read the following link and goto page 309 and line 3 section g.

Are these senators crazy, they want penalise the employers with $8500 for every renewal and want to hand out Z visas for $100.

Am I reading something wrong here. Under normal circumstances I would think it to be a typo.

http://www.shusterman.com/pdf/senatebill51807.pdf

Where could it happen in this world?