Thread: March to Atlanta focuses on immigration reform

March to Atlanta focuses on reform
Religions join together to promote humane solution to illegal immigration

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By Ashley Fielding
afielding@gainesvilletimes.com
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A line of about 140 religious marchers — led by a Christian carrying a large cross and ending with a Buddhist monk chanting — walked through Gainesville on Sunday praying for the humane treatment of Georgia’s immigrant population.

Gainesville was the starting point for a Holy Week pilgrimage in which peace marchers will walk and pray through cities in Northeast Georgia and metro Atlanta where organizers say immigrants suffer.

Organizers are using the weeklong pilgrimage that started Sunday in Gainesville to call for the end of law enforcement raids that separate families, ask for humane immigration reform and the revision of trade policies that increase unauthorized immigration.

“We really hope that with this walk it will motivate the Latino community to unite and start working together with other communities to make it comfortable for everyone to enjoy the blessings of this country,â€

Let 'em walk!

Let them Fast!

When they are done ship the illegals home.
OR
Let the people walking & fasting give-up their jobs to them!!!!

And like many others marching Sunday, Levitt said deportation proceedings could also be handled better. He said immigration enforcement should not split up families or send children to countries where they have no relatives.

I agree, the families of illegal aliens should not be split up, they must all be deported together. There will be NO amnesty!

[quote]“(Immigration) it’s a complex issue,â€

Why don't these so-called religous people march on behalf of the 77,000 Americans that have been hurt of killed by illegals since 9/11?

They had ONE Buddhist monk (probably Morris Dees in an orange robe) and call it "interfaith"!! What a joke.

Why don't they ever call the rallies against illegal immigration "multiracial and multinational" since they includes Americans and legal immigrants of all races (and religions)?

Why don't these so-called religous people march on behalf of the 77,000 Americans that have been hurt of killed by illegals since 9/11?

EXACTLY!! They're all hypocrites!

Flores told marchers that CCA’s current facility in Lumpkin currently houses 1,900 immigrants at a time for an average of 40 days and 40 nights He asked pilgrims to keep those detainees in their prayers as they continued to walk.


Oh please! These people specialize in drama. This makes me sick that they compare this to the events that happened in Jesus' time. I can't even say what I want to happen to these drama queens. I'm afraid I'll be punished by God. And, "pilgrims"...gimmee a freakin' break!


[b]“This is not a government building,â€