Thread: CA: Hundreds gather to protest immigration plan, Iraq war

Hundreds gather to protest immigration plan, Iraq war

Seven-year-old Roberto held a "We are American" sign Monday night with his 4-year-old sister.
They don't fully understand the immigration debate being waged in Congress and coffee shops around the nation, but they stood along Highway 111 in Palm Desert to support their father, an undocumented immigrant.

"They need us, and I need them," said Roberto Sr., a Rancho Mirage resident. "That's the way it's supposed to be. We're a family."

Had immigration agents arrested Roberto in the May raids, godparents would raise his three U.S.-born children.

Waving American flags and chanting words of support for Mexico, more than 250 people across the valley protested immigration reform, the war in Iraq and high gas prices Monday.

A revised immigration bill could be considered this week in the U.S. Senate, requiring improvements to border security and employment verification programs.

The new plan also would seek to eventually phase out the temporary guest-worker program.

The new bill includes a proposal by Republican senators from Arizona and South Carolina to create a $4.4 billion fund, paid for by fees and fines collected from undocumented immigrants, solely to finance border security.

This immigration bill, which is expected to face some opposition, will be up for debate later this week, officials said.


Meanwhile, in the Coachella Valley on Monday night, passersby honked their horns while some yelled "Viva Mexico" in support of those protesting.
"We're not going to stop until we get what we want. Everybody deserves a right to have a better future," said Sylvia Cardona, a member of Comité Latino, the group that organized the event.

Formed in January 2006, the group has organized several marches, including a similar event in February last year where hundreds of people formed a human chain to protest a House resolution that would have made it a crime to aid undocumented immigrants.

Participants also held signs that read "Stop the war in Iraq."

At dusk, a handful of protesters turned on flashlights - a symbolic act meant to encourage the estimated 12 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States to leave the shadows and come into the light.

About 233,000 undocumented immigrants live in Riverside County.

No one knows for sure how many live in the Coachella Valley.

"I think everybody has a right to live here legally," said Julio Macuixtle, who teaches elementary school in the Coachella Valley Unified School District. "They come for work. They enrich the culture of the United States. We need to give them a chance."

But not everyone agrees.

"The root of the problem is in Mexico. It's not here," said John Elias, a missionary whose grandmother emigrated from Mexico. "They export all the poor people here."

The way Elias sees it, the undocumented should protest for reform in the zocalos (or town squares) south of the border.

"They don't care about citizenship. All they care about is mobility."

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Waving American flags and chanting words of support for Mexico, more than 250 people across the valley protested

OK you want to stay in America and reap the benefits but you chant words of support for Mexico? Hmmm whats wrong with this picture?

They dont love this country, they love the freebees, that allow them to live ten times better than they would in Mexico.

Originally Posted by Roberto

Had immigration agents arrested Roberto in the May raids, godparents would raise his three U.S.-born children.

When are these people going to take responsibility for their own children?
Family values, right!

Originally Posted by Julio Macuixtle

"I think everybody has a right to live here legally," said Julio Macuixtle, who teaches elementary school in the Coachella Valley Unified School District. "They come for work. They enrich the culture of the United States. We need to give them a chance."

And this person is a teacher? What kind of crap is this pinhead filling children's heads with?

Teaching a job that americans will not do or a job due to the number of illegals in schools a job that requires you to speak spanish instead of english.

They come for work. They enrich the culture of the United States.

They also steal social security numbers, drive drunk, overcrowd our schools, falsify documents, take jobs away from Americans,and get free health care.

What do they think they will have when they have turned us into another 3rd world country. You will have what you had in Mexico stupid!!I can see why our politican want them here, they all have the same amount of common sense!!

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