Thread: NC Immigration Rally w/video

By Hannah Ross

Published: August 16, 2008

U.S. Immigration raided Mills Manufacturing on Tuesday, arresting 57 workers they said are illegal immigrants. Immigration released 29 of the workers, saying they have to appear at a hearing. The rest are still behind bars. Rally organizers said they don’t agree with the raid.

One of the rally organizers, Alikhan Salehi, said, “We want ICE to know they’re not welcome here in Asheville. We want Asheville to be a sanctuary for immigrants. This country was built by immigrants, and unless you are a Native American, you are descended from immigrants.â€

Funny, the video opened with an add for a South Carolina college. Wonder if they allow illegal aliens?

I used to live 20 minutes from Asheville and was glad to get out of there!!!!

And they are not "immigrants," they are mostly ILLEGAL ALIENS.

Raid protest draws a crowd
Mike McWilliams • MMcWilliams@CITIZEN-TIMES.com • published August 17, 2008 12:15 am

ASHEVILLE – Susan Yarger was walking past Vance Monument during a visit to Asheville Saturday afternoon when she happened upon a group of people decrying a recent immigration raid at a Woodfin factory. The Raleigh resident said it’s an issue “dear to my heart.â€

Anyone notice the guy with the black and red T-Shirt that has North, Central, and South America colored red with the caption "Stolen" over the entire Western Hemisphere?

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Originally Posted by ALIPAC

Anyone notice the guy with the black and red T-Shirt that has North, Central, and South America colored red with the caption "Stolen" over the entire Western Hemisphere?

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Yes! Use to seeing that in Mexifornia but in N.C.! They're just trying to justify being here. Amazing how our country puts up with it. Oh, yeah, guess they do because of money. Once heard someone say if you can't understand why something is happening just follow the money. Wise words!

[quote]UNCA student body president Nick Ladd said workers, like the ones arrested in the Mills Manufacturing raid, are necessary to support the economy. Ladd also spoke to the group at Pritchard Park.

“If every immigrant in this country just up and left today, like a lot of people would like them to do, then our economy would crumble,â€

It is time to differentiate between IMMIGRATION and an INVASION!
When a person comes to the United States for a betterlife and a dream of making it happen and abiding by her laws to accomplish it is immigration. When they go through the processes of becoming an American that is immigration.

Invasion is when they break laws to get here and will even go as far as paying money to break the laws (human trafficing). When there is DRUG SMUGGLING, and HUMAN TRAFFICKING, and GUN RUNNING that is an INVASION!

And if you are invading my country then you need to be dealt with!

When some of these people lose their jobs then they will be the ones to holler about it. We need to start protecting the job base now.