Thread: Feinstein, Stop Pushing Your Anti-Immigrant Legislation!

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San Francisco | Immigrant Rights
Feinstein, Stop Pushing Your Anti-Immigrant Legislation!
by Michael Lyon ( mlyon01 [at] comcast.net )
Saturday Jun 2nd, 2007 8:09 AM

Immigrants and immigrant rights activists demonstrated and blocked the entrances to Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s office building this noon. Feinstein is pushing legislation that is a compromise between conservatives demanding expulsion of immigrants, and liberals, demanding guest workers as cheap labor. The results: broken families, increased border deaths, more terror against immigrants, a huge increase in abused immigrant workers, and worse exploitation of US workers. Hear Flashpoints interview. 11 minutes

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Friday, June 01, 2007. One hundred angry and determined immigrants and immigrant rights activists shouted, chanted, made speeches, and blocked the entrances to Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s office building this noon. The entire plaza in front of her building was occupied by demonstrators, who could be heard at least a half block away. Large rolls of chicken wire fence with white crosses were used to block the entrances to the building. As police moved in to clear the entrances, the focus of the action shifted to a speaker demanding equal rights for immigrants as police prepared to arrest her and five others. Feinstein, who makes a practice of regally ignoring anyone challenging her anti-worker, anti-immigrant, and anti-senior/disabled agenda, was forced to come down to the sidewalk and speak with the large number of reporters present, waiting, of course, until demonstrators blocking the doors were safely out of sight.

Feinstein is pushing immigration legislation that represents a compromise between conservative racists, who favor ethnic cleansing and expulsion of immigrants, and liberal racists, who favor large numbers of guest worker immigrants in a vulnerable legal limbo, where they can be exploited as cheap labor. The results would be broken families, increased border deaths, heightened terror against immigrants nationwide, a huge increase in abused immigrant workers, and worse wages, working conditions, and benefits for US-born workers.

Feinstein’s plan would further militarize the borders, set up more ICE raids and detention centers, and set up a national ID card that both citizens and immigrants would need to work. Once these measures are in place, current undocumented immigrants could begin the legalization process involving thousands of dollars in fines and fees, criminal background checks, and heads of households would have to leave the country with no assurance that they could re-enter and rejoin their families. Meanwhile, millions of immigrants would be brought in as temporary workers, never eligible for permanent residence and subject to deportation the minute their work ends, so they would be as brutally exploited as the braceros of the 1950s, and would also be used as a club against citizen workers also. Finally, preferences for permanent residence would be changed, favoring highly educated, technically trained English speakers over family members of current immigrants.

As with the Iraq war, events are showing liberals and conservatives in government are objectively on the same side. While George Bush, Dianne Feinstein and Edward Kennedy labor to force an immigration compromise through, the government steps up ICE raids to terrorize us into accepting their plans. We will not be moved. We demand an end to ICE raids, total amnesty, free detainees, no guest worker programs, and equal rights for immigrants. Citizen and immigrant unity. We want a world without borders.
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Now they are attacking Feinstein? I thought she was on their side???

This part says it all:

"As with the Iraq war, events are showing liberals and conservatives in government are objectively on the same side. While George Bush, Dianne Feinstein and Edward Kennedy labor to force an immigration compromise through, the government steps up ICE raids to terrorize us into accepting their plans. We will not be moved. We demand an end to ICE raids, total amnesty, free detainees, no guest worker programs, and equal rights for immigrants. Citizen and immigrant unity. We want a world without borders."

In other words, they demand that no rules, limitations or consequences of any sort be placed upon them? I guess anarchy must be in vogue these days.

I am a long way from California, but can't a group be organized to represent our side? I think we lost a lot of ground when the illegals filled the streets waving their Mexican flags and we did not counter with a group twice as big. The only thing the elected officials see is numbers.

We will not be moved. We demand an end to ICE raids, total amnesty, free detainees, no guest worker programs, and equal rights for immigrants. Citizen and immigrant unity. We want a world without borders.

They don't expect much do they? Just stop enforcing laws, open the border, let's all be one big happy family? That's unrealistic to say the least. Ah, San Francisco!

One hundred angry and determined immigrants and immigrant rights activists shouted, chanted, made speeches, and blocked the entrances to Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s office building this noon.

One hundred immigrants and immigrant rights activists? I wonder how many of these were illegals? And why no ICE to arrest and deport them. Oh yeah, that's right, they're hiding in the shadows afraid to be seen, so they stay hidden shouting, chanting, making speeches, and blocking the entrances to Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s office building.

Feinstein is pushing immigration legislation that represents a compromise between conservative racists, who favor ethnic cleansing and expulsion of immigrants, and liberal racists, who favor large numbers of guest worker immigrants in a vulnerable legal limbo, where they can be exploited as cheap labor.

Conservative racists, liberal racists, ethnic cleansing, exploitation, etc., etc. Gee, I wonder why these people would ever want to live in a country that is so racist and mean to them as the U.S. is. There's no way that even a handful of people would ever subject themselves to such awful inhumane and genocidal conditions. Especially when they can live in paradises of equality, with bountiful social services, access to healthcare and wondrous paragons of civil rights, with tremendous opportunities in education and employment like they enjoyed in their home countries like Mexico. There's just no way these people would ever want to stay here where they're treated so terribly, they must really be protesting for immediate transportation back home.

When they demostrated in the streets they did a lot of damage to themselves, especially when carrying foreign flags. You are right Nouveauxpoor, we should be more active, and hopefully we are doing so with more rallies and events, but too many Americans are still waiting in the wings for whatever reason, so we must keep getting the message out to family and friends and use the opposition's words and actions to show who they really are and what impact they are having on every American city and town.

Keep talking, working, showing others the way.


Psalm 139:14

Feinstein is pushing immigration legislation that represents a compromise between conservative racists, who favor ethnic cleansing and expulsion of immigrants, and liberal racists, who favor large numbers of guest worker immigrants

Racists who favor ethnic cleansing? Micheal, you suck as a writer. Do you always get the facts wrong?

Large rolls of chicken wire fence with white crosses were used to block the entrances to the building

Appropriate for a POLICHICKEN

Hey, FEINSTEIN.........how are those DEFENSE CONTRACTS doing?
Make gazillions of AMERICAN DOLLARS, did you?

Nice to have your finger in the pie, isn't it?

Anyone up for an INVESTIGATION?
I am!