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03-15-2012, 12:15 AM #1
PA - Two undocumented immigrants arrested in protest
Posted: Wed, Mar. 14, 2012, 5:20 PM
By Michael Matza
INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
Declaring themselves "undocumented, unapologetic and unafraid," two college students were arrested by Philadelphia police Wednesday after a boisterous street protest that snarled traffic for more than an hour.
Tania Chairez, 19, a University of Pennsylvania sophomore, and Jessica Hyejin Lee, 20, a junior at Bryn Mawr College, planted themselves atop two banners they put in the roadway at 16th and Callowhill Streets at 3:15 p.m. and refused to move. The spot is directly in front of the Philadelphia offices of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the deportation police known as ICE.
Chairez, whose parents brought her here as a young child from Mexico, and Lee, whose parents brought her here from South Korea, are illegal immigrants. Speaking through bullhorns, they said their act of civil disobedience was designed to encourage undocumented people "to come out of the shadows" and demand universal human rights.
About 75 demonstrators, mostly from the city's Latino and Asian youth movements, assembled at Love Park, then marched to spot where the women sat in. Spilling off the sidewalks, the demonstrators chanted support for immigration reforms that would grant students like Chairez and Lee legal status.
"Out of the shadows, into the street," the demonstrators chanted. "No courage, no change."
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03-15-2012, 12:48 AM #2
I'm getting sick of this. Obama and ICE has empowered these illegals with their so-called "priority deportation" policies. They've effectively removed any fear these young illegals have of deportation.
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing" ** Edmund Burke**
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