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08-02-2010, 05:11 PM #1
Protesters Demand Immigrant Rights,Condemn SB 1070
Protesters Demand Immigrant Rights and Condemn the Arizona Law
Monday 02 August 2010
by: David Bacon
San Francisco and Oakland, California - In San Francisco and Oakland, immigrants and community activists protested Arizona's SB 1070, which would require police and local law enforcement to check the immigration status of people they suspect might be undocumented, on the day the law took effect. A day earlier, federal Judge Susan Bolton invalidated much of the law, but demonstrations involving thousands of people took place against the law around the country nevertheless.
In San Francisco, demonstrators also protested cooperation between police and immigration agents in arresting people for deportation, in front of the office of California Attorney General Jerry Brown. Brown, a candidate for governor, ruled that San Francisco could not opt out of the Secure Communities program, which mandates such cooperation and would invalidate San Francisco's sanctuary city ordinance. Protesters then went into Brown's office and told one of his assistants about their objections to his action.
Renee Saucedo, an attorney with La Raza Centro Legal and a leader of the protesters, said: "It's no coincidence that Arizona has this outrageous law, because all the proposals from Washington on immigration reform encourage the same criminalization, racial profiling and discrimination. Immigrant communities are demanding an end to these policies and laws, including 'Secure Communities' and 'E-Verify.' We deserve a new direction from Washington, with real change, including legalization and workers' rights."
In many other parts of the country, demonstrations connected the Arizona law to local anti-immigrant measures, and to an increase in enforcement actions by the federal government. In Mississippi, the Mississippi Immigrants Rights Alliance held a protest inside the state capitol in Jackson, in front of a statue of former Sen. Theodore Bilbo. In the era in which African-Americans were beaten and even lynched for demanding voting and civil rights, Bilbo was a leader of the Dixiecrats in Congress. He was notorious for attacking African-Americans, Jews, immigrants, Catholics and all progressive people.
A church choir sang "Listen Mr. Bilbo," written by Bob and Adrienne Claiborne in 1946 and popularized by Pete Seeger and the Almanac Singers. The song begins with the verse:
Listen, Mr. Bilbo, listen to me
I'll give you a lesson in history.
Listen and I'll show you that the foreigners you hate
Are the very same people made America great.
Bill Chandler, director of the Alliance, asked, "Is not trying to bring this xenophobic and racist Arizona law into Mississippi playing the Bilbo Card? Is it not their stated intent to intimidate and drive immigrants out of our state, just as their ancestors' intent was to intimidate, terrorize, and drive out African Americans in the last century? And to enforce inequality on those left behind?"
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08-02-2010, 05:49 PM #2
Translation: Give us everything American citizens have except we want it free and we don't want any obligations and responsibilities that come with it.
"A Nation of sheep will beget a government of Wolves" -Edward R. Murrow
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08-02-2010, 06:41 PM #3
Immigrants HAVE rights.
Illegal aliens deserve NONE.Calling an illegal alien an "undocumented worker" is like calling a drug dealer an "unlicensed pharmacist"........
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08-02-2010, 06:59 PM #4Renee Saucedo, an attorney with La Raza Centro Legal and a leader of the protesters, said: "It's no coincidence that Arizona has this outrageous law, because all the proposals from Washington on immigration reform encourage the same criminalization, racial profiling and discrimination. Immigrant communities are demanding an end to these policies and laws, including 'Secure Communities' and 'E-Verify.' We deserve a new direction from Washington, with real change, including legalization and workers' rights."
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08-02-2010, 07:21 PM #5Renee Saucedo, an attorney with La Raza Centro Legal and a leader of the protesters, said: "It's no coincidence that Arizona has this outrageous law, because all the proposals from Washington on immigration reform encourage the same criminalization, racial profiling and discrimination.RIP Butterbean! We miss you and hope you are well in heaven.-- Your ALIPAC friends
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08-03-2010, 12:13 PM #6
And what actions look more like Nazi behavior now? Infiltrate a country, kill its citizens, disregard its laws?
Sounds depressingly familiar...
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08-03-2010, 01:06 PM #7
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Tue, 08/03/2010 - 16:29 — ratbstard (not verified)
If a man sneaks into your home he is a burglar, not an undocumented tenant you must provide for!
Some-one stealing a loaf of bread could go to jail but those who steal jobs and national identity deserve rewards? I DON'T THINK SO!Join our efforts to Secure America's Borders and End Illegal Immigration by Joining ALIPAC's E-Mail Alerts network (CLICK HERE)
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