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Immigrants' rights group takes fight to Super Bowl

11:56 AM Mountain Standard Time on Tuesday, January 9, 2007

By 3TV

They say they're fighting for immigrants' rights and now protesters say they're taking that fight to Super Bowl 2008.

Demonstrators went after national attention by heading to the University of Phoenix Stadium Monday with their protest against Proposition 300, but the march was cut short by the city of Glendale.

Hundreds of students and demonstrators came out to protest the new law, which denies in-state tuition for illegal immigrants.

Students marched from Camelback Road to Missouri Avenue, but there they were stopped by officers and turned around.

The city says organizers missed a deadline to file for a permit, but marchers claim Glendale city officials didn't get back to them until after that deadline had passed.

As a result, one civil rights leader says he'll push for the 2008 Super Bowl to be moved out of Arizona.

"We think that there is too much controversy and too much injustice in this state, not just with the undocumented community, but with the African-American community in general," said civil rights advocate the Rev. Jarrett Maupin said. "The game should be taken somewhere else. There are other cities and communities that deserve to have the game and all of its benefits brought there."

Maupin said he has national backing and intends on getting the state to rethink the issue by hitting them economically.