Thread: Group seeks N.J. support to halt illegal immigration

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Group seeks N.J. support to halt illegal immigration
Sunday, November 6, 2005

By MIGUEL PEREZ
STAFF WRITER


BOGOTA - Charging that "our country is being invaded," a group of New Jersey residents vowed Saturday to mobilize support throughout the state to fight the incursion of illegal immigrants.

In a meeting called by the United Patriots of America, a New Jersey group that favors strict immigration policies, about two dozen people discussed ideas on how to get politicians and law enforcement authorities to "go after" illegal immigrants.

"Our laws are not being enforced," charged Ron Bass, the group's founder. "Selective enforcement of the laws is a form of tyranny and a violation of our civil rights."

The group met at the Bogota VFW Hall, where Mayor Steve Lonegan greeted them by saying that while this country is about immigration, diversity and tolerance, "it's also a nation built on laws."

"Any immigration whatsoever that violates the laws of this country should not be tolerated," Lonegan added. Yet, he said, "We've now allowed America to become a free-for-all."

Lonegan said there is a movement "to attack those of us who would stand up for those laws. They say that if we don't allow people to break the law, if we give into those fundamental standards, that we are racists."

That is precisely what a group of more than a dozen demonstrators were saying outside the hall, until police asked them to leave.

"This is a group that is concerned more with the fact that people of another culture are coming into the country and they consider them an enemy," said protester Daryl Lamont Jenkins, a spokesman for One People's Project, a Jersey City group that fights racism.

"These are people who have associated with white supremacists in the past, here in New Jersey, and we wanted to come out and let them know that they are not welcomed here," Jenkins said.

He said that as the United Patriots continue to mobilize, his group will be "out there, letting them know how we feel about them." He said that when Bogota police officers asked his group to leave the hall area, they regrouped nearby, on West Main Street, and gave out fliers denouncing the "racist tendencies" of the United Patriots.

Jenkins questioned why the United Patriots "don't seem to be upset about the illegal immigrants coming from Europe."

Nevertheless, Susan Tully, national field director for the Washington-based Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), insisted that the movement pushing for stricter immigration enforcement "has nothing to do with race." She encouraged the United Patriots to enhance the national movement by working at the local level.

Tully said members of the audience should oppose efforts to create hiring halls for immigrant day laborers and call immigration authorities requesting raids on the areas where these workers gather.

"If they ask you, 'What are we going to do with them?'Ÿ" Tully said, "Tell them to go home."

She asked the Bogota audience to oppose President Bush's proposed guest-worker program because it is another form of amnesty. He is "giving away every American job in the country" by promising to match immigrant workers with employers, she said.

Tully asked the audience to support legislation that would build fences along the Mexican border and deny citizenship to the U.S.-born children of illegal immigrants. And she said that if elected officials "aren't good on this issue, get rid of them."

Bass said he wants to establish a local chapter in each of New Jersey's 21 counties, and he denied that his group has ties with white supremacists.

"There are very few people in this country who realize what's really going on in this country," Bass said. "And we have to do something. It's a situation of anarchy."

Here is the web site of "One People's Project" note the little guy in the upper left corner who is being disrespectful of the American flag. Then across on the other side trashing the MM. I'll go along with Nazi bashing but this site added good people into the same group and call them Nazis.
I'm putting this web site in my "unAmerican/Terrorist watch list"
http://www.onepeoplesproject.com/