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    TX: Students stage hunger strike

    Students stage hunger strike
    November 10, 2010

    by Melissa Ludwig

    A dozen students at the University of Texas at San Antonio, some of them in the country illegally, declared a hunger strike Wednesday to urge passage of a federal law that would give students a path to citizenship.
    Called the DREAM Act, the law addresses immigrants who were brought to the country as children and go on to earn a college degree or serve in the military. The law suffered a recent defeat in Congress, but Democratic U.S. Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada has vowed to bring it to a vote during the lame-duck session.

    Organized by a UTSA student group called DREAM Act NOW!, the strikers gathered Wednesday at the university's Sombrilla Plaza and vowed to fast until Republican U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison throws her support behind the bill. Other events planned for the week include a Veterans Day rally and a visit to Hutchison's San Antonio office on Monday.

    “She's our last hope,â€
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    Stupid is as stupid does.

    Notice they picked Hutchinson and not Cornyn?

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    Children of citizens don't need to go on hunger strike. They are hungry all the time any more. I go about town and see Mexicans working and their status is unknown to me but their attitude is clearly defensive. They know that the fact that they are working when so many of us are not makes them a target. Regardless of their status, it is clear that employers are not equal opportunity. The workers that I see are not diversified to represent the population. They are Mexican only. And the projected inflation has not fully hit yet.
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    Do they really not know that they have no legitimate cause and without one no cares if they want to have a hunger strike?

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    Can't think of any time a hunger strike has worked but the media eats it up. Get it....
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    Quote Originally Posted by jean
    Can't think of any time a hunger strike has worked but the media eats it up. Get it....
    Exactly. It's not worked since Gandhi but he had a legitimate cause.
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    [quote]Benita Veliz, a graduate of St. Mary's University and a national poster child for the movement, is facing deportation after a traffic stop in 2009.

    “There has been an ideological shift,â€
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    how dare they stage a hunger strike when 40 million americans are on food stamps ....

    if it wasn't for the food stamp program ALOT of americans would be very hungry right now , and i can tell you this protest for amnesty would NOT go down well with the hungry people ..

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    The American dream is worth risking everything
    Apparently, the American dream is not worth coming here through legal channels.

    Time to set up the BBQ grill across the street from these morons.
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    I guess taxpayers will pay less for food stamps this month.
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