Thread: US immigration activists plan new blitz

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US immigration activists plan new blitz
May 10, 2006 - 8:14AM

Activists in Los Angeles, where massive rallies have galvanised the pro-immigrant rights movement, said they were mobilising for a new political blitz on Washington.

The campaign seeks to lobby members of Congress and flood their offices with telephone calls and post cards demanding legalisation for the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in the United States. It also plans summer-long citizenship and voter registration drives and possibly more protests.

"We have leverage (from) the millions of people who have been out there demonstrating in the streets," said Antonio Rodriguez, a leader of the pro-immigrant March 25 Coalition. "They want a seat at the dinner table and they want to partake of the benefits."

The postcards, organised by the We Are America Coalition backed by the Los Angeles Roman Catholic Archdiocese, will target Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, a Tennessee Republican who has pledged to bring an immigration reform bill back to the floor by the end of May.

The coalition said it would also call on Latinos to bombard California's senators, Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer, both Democrats, with phone calls.

Hundreds of thousands of mostly Latino immigrants spilled into the streets across the United States on May 1 as part of a national day of boycotts and protests to demand rights for illegal immigrants.

The issue has split Congress, where some conservatives have called for a crackdown on employers who hire illegal immigrants and a fence along the US border with Mexico.

But others, including President George W Bush, want a guest-worker program that would provide a "path to citizenship" for most of those here already, acknowledging the huge US demand for workers met by the undocumented work force.

Rodriguez said Latino activists will not be satisfied with measures that give a path to citizenship to some illegal immigrants but not all.

"We want a bill that essentially allows legalisation of those who are undocumented here in the United States and establishes an ongoing kind of statute of limitations that would allow people who had been here for three years or longer to be legalised," he said.

Renan Almendarez Coello, a popular Spanish-language radio personality known as "El Cucuy" ("The Boogeyman") who was credited with bringing thousands of Latino students to the cause, said he would work to register over 1 million Latinos to vote over the summer.

They can do it too. Take whats not thiers, this is going to be so $@#@%@#(&)@(* ugly,

Until the American People elect a president that will enforce laws and go against the latino lobby, its gonna be bananna republic time..


This week another 40-50,000 illegals will cross....

I just wonder if November will get us a good set of gains?

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"They want a seat at the dinner table and they want to partake of the benefits."

Has anyone else noticed how often this comes up in interviews with aliens? It's all about how much they can take from us.

Yes I have it is all about them and what they want, they do not care that tax paying american citizens will pay for it. Also with regards to their blitz of phonecalls, good luck as they cannot even speak english so unless these politicians are proficient in spanish they will not even know what they are saying,LOL

Originally Posted by WavTek

"They want a seat at the dinner table and they want to partake of the benefits."

[quote:1t7uglna]Has anyone else noticed how often this comes up in interviews with aliens? It's all about how much they can take from us.

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It's all about opportunism, just as you say, and there's nothing even remotely patriotic about it. America is nothing to illegal aliens but a star-spangled whore. They want to be serviced. Everybody better buy a can of jumbo-sized Crisco! Grease up, spread 'em and bend over. We is gonna git screwed with a Spanish fly! That is, unless we can manage to somehow derail this train from Mexico City.

As soon as I became aware of who was voted in as Los Angeles's new major. I knew we were in trouble.

Arm yourself with your voter's registration card (VR Card).

Put your certificate number on every piece of correspondence to Washington. Let them you know your vote counts.

The Cert number is in the top left corner of your VR Card.

Dixie