Thread: Thousands Rally Nationwide in Support of an Immigration Overhaul

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"Thousands of supporters of an immigration overhaul held rallies on Saturday at more than 150 sites in 40 states . . . "

Urgent Action roy beck Disgusted by the sight of thousands of illegal aliens openly demanding work permits? If you send this message to Congress, your voice will be much stronger than any noise from the rallies.

Do you just wish you could mount your own more powerful rally when you see the photos and TV coverage of illegal aliens and their supporters at the 150 pro-amnesty rallies today? If you send the free faxes, your voice will be that of a U.S. citizen speaking directly to your three Members of Congress. I can assure you that your voice calling for respect for American workers -- including the legal immigrants already here -- will carry more weight than the shouting at the rallies for illegal aliens to be given the same right to jobs as 20 million Americans who still can't find full-time work. DEAR FRIENDS, News reporters questioned us all day yesterday about what our anti-amnesty side was going to do today to show that we are as strong as all the illegal aliens who show up at the pro-amnesty rallies planned for 150 cities today. Reporters hoped to hear that we were going to engage in our own political theater and create some good photo ops. So, they were disappointed to hear that we were going to do what we have always done, which is make it extremely easy for individual citizens to express their opinion to their Members of Congress from the comfort of their homes, offices or portable devices. Not much of a photo op, but still a powerful way to send a message. Your Take-Action Box https://www.numbersusa.com/ Please help fill your Representative's and Senators' mailboxes with appeals to show dignity and respect to American workers by refusing to give out millions more work permits for foreign citizens to compete with our struggling U.S. workers. ADDING MORE IMMIGRATION & WORK PERMITS THREATENS TO IMPOVERISH LEGAL IMMIGRANTS ALREADY HERE The "National Day of Immigrant Dignity and Respect" could just as easily be called the "Anti-Labor Day" or the "Immigrant Perpetual Poverty Day." All American workers suffer under current uncontrolled immigration policies and would suffer much more if the sponsors of the rallies get their "comprehensive immigration reform" that would give lifetime work permits to at least 11 million illegal aliens and around 20 million new legal immigrants over the next ten years. But the workers who would suffer the most, would be the legal immigrants who arrived here the last 10-20 years. That's because the more than 30 million new lifetime work permits under the Senate-passed S. 744 would go to people who disproportionately settle in the same neighborhoods as those previous immigrants and who have similar education and job skills and who look for work in the same occupations. Recent immigrants and the second generation of earlier immigrants are having a really hard time with high unemployment and low incomes. Most of them are working occupations where employers have a never-ending supply of new immigrants and illegal aliens who are ready to do just about anything to out-compete those already here. This is not unusual in our history. People tend to remember stories of immigrants who arrive with nothing and who work their way into the middle class or even riches. But researching for my books on immigration, I found those stories were the rare exceptions during periods of mass immigration. They became commonplace only after Congress greatly reduced immigration numbers to around traditional averages. History shows that a sincere Day of Dignity and Respect for Immigrants would be pushing for the adoption of the recommendations of Barbara Jordan's bi-partisan U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform that would cut legal immigration at least in half and would once and for all remove the ability of foreign citizens to illegally take U.S. jobs. That would allow the labor market to begin tightening, something that throughout our history has raised the incomes of all workers, but especially the tens of millions of recent immigrants. But everything about the rallies was aimed at creating open borders with gigantic future flows of foreign workers that will further depress U.S. wages and force more Americans to become dependent upon the government. Nothing about the rallies shows any respect for the dignity of the average American worker. I have told the news media that NumbersUSA is mobilizing our activists across the country to contact their members of Congress and to demand an immigration policy that respects and dignifies all legal American workers -- whether foreign-born or U.S.-born -- instead of rewarding lawbreakers with lifetime work permits to compete against Americans. Amnesty with work permits is simply not the answer when 20 million unemployed Americans still can't find a full-time job, and when the wages of tens of millions of others are depressed due to Congress quadrupling the level of immigrant workers over the last few decades. THANKS FOR SENDING THOSE FAXES. roy beck https://www.numbersusa.com/

Thousands cross Brooklyn Bridge Saturday to protest stoppage to immigration ... New York Daily News - ‎52 minutes ago‎
Thousands of people marched across the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday — charging the same congressmen and women who let the government shut down are blocking desperately needed immigration reform. “We are here today to demand the House take ...

THE TURN OUT FOR THE EVENTS IS DOWN THOUGH YOU WONT HEAR THAT FROM THEM OR MSM

Are the major TV and Cable news channels broadcasting reports of these? They did that five years ago and the whole thing backfired on the amnesty supporters.

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I only saw one little local new story about any of this on TV.

The story has changed on the second page of the Times link above:

In Minneapolis, more than 1,000 demonstrators marched from the Roman Catholic basilica near the center of the city, led by dancers in the feathered garb of ancient Aztec Indians of Mexico. Although many said they were undocumented immigrants, they showed little fear of protesting in public.
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Evan McGlinn for The New York Times
The demonstrations come when few lawmakers on Capitol Hill are focused on immigration. But a large rally has been planned for Tuesday on the National Mall in Washington.




Nicole Erdmann, 37, a United States citizen, marched with her Mexican-born husband, Hector Reyes, 51, and a daughter in a stroller. She said Mr. Reyes had been unable to obtain a legal visa under current laws. Ms. Erdmann’s ire was focused on Mr. Obama, who she said failed to deliver on his promises to push through an overhaul.


She said she worried Mr. Reyes would lose his job or be detained. “We’re scared,” Ms. Erdmann said.


In New York, advocates rallied, in an upbeat mood, in Cadman Plaza in Brooklyn and then marched over the Brooklyn Bridge. Bill de Blasio, a Democrat who is the front-runner in the mayoral race, spoke as his wife, Chirlane McCray, stood beside him.


He said New York had a “special obligation” to push Congress for a path to citizenship for immigrants without legal status. “We have to set the example here of how to include all of our brothers and sisters even if they’re not documented,” Mr. de Blasio said.


On Wednesday, Democrats in the House of Representatives, at the urging of the minority leader, Representative Nancy Pelosi of California, introduced a bill that closely matched broad bipartisan legislation passed by the Senate in June, including a path to citizenship for most of an estimated 11.7 million immigrants in the country illegally.


The House bill had no Republican sponsors, so its prospects were uncertain at best. But it gave advocates something to rally around, after a bipartisan House group’s efforts to write legislation fell apart last month.


Several House Republican leaders, including Representative Robert W. Goodlatte of Virginia, the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, have said they hoped to hold votes on smaller immigration bills during the fall.


Mr. Goodlatte’s committee has approved bills that would sharply tighten immigration enforcement and provide more visas for highly skilled workers, but no bill so far that offers a legal pathway to immigrants here illegally.


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Reporting was contributed by Jess Bidgood from Boston, Christina Cappecchi from Minneapolis, Rob Davis from San Diego, and Kirk Semple from New York.
This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:




Correction: October 5, 2013


An earlier version of this article misstated the location of a demonstration. It was in Rogers, Ark., not Little Rock, Ark. An earlier version also incorrectly stated that a rally had been held Saturday in Omaha, Neb. That rally was postponed.


Guess it was too cold and windy for them in Omaha. We did not have a nice weather day in Nebraska yesterday.

The biggest change in the article was about support of the immigration bill.

The first article says:

Supporters contend there is already enough support in the House, between Republicans and Democrats, to pass a comprehensive bill including citizenship for unauthorized immigrants, if the speaker, John A. Boehner of Ohio, would bring it up for a vote.

The changed article reads:

The House bill had no Republican sponsors, so its prospects were uncertain at best.