Thread: It won't be just Latinos marching in Chicago

It won't just be Latinos marching

April 30, 2006





MUSLIMS: More than 5,000 people from Chicago's diverse Muslim community will be marching, said Janaan Hashim, spokeswoman for the Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago. Sixty different ethnic groups are represented in the Chicago area's Muslim population of 400,000, including Bosnians, Hispanics, Arabs, African Americans and South Asians. Muslims and Arabs feel that their civil rights are slowly eroding with legislation such as the Patriot Act, but when they march on Monday, they are mostly doing it in support of their Muslims and non-Muslim Latino friends, Hashim said. "We know what it feels like to be singled out."

FILIPINOS: There are 120,000 Filipinos in the Chicago area. About 150 to 200 are expected to attend the rally, according to Alliance of Filipinos for Immigration Rights member Arnold Devilla. "Among the Asian ethnic minorities, Filipinos are most suffering from a backlog of petitioning and sponsoring family members to come over to the United States," he said. There are about 250,000 Filipinos in the United States who have "overstayed" their visit by not extending their visas, Devilla said.









WHERE THEY COME FROM
The number of people in the three largest immigrant groups, where they live, and their status.

AREA TYPE EUROPEANS ASIANS MEXICANS
Chicago Citizens 62,880 54,699 74,754

Noncitizens 82,582 58,233 217,811

Total 145,462 112,932 292,565





Cook County Citizens 146,363 115,300 109,435

Noncitizens 141,751 116,577 320,721

Total 288,114 231,877 430,156





DuPage County Citizens 19,783 28,447 7,705

Noncitizens 15,137 27,490 27,743

Total 34,920 55,937 35,448





Kane County Citizens 3,477 3,277 10,017

Noncitizens 2,558 2,104 38,520

Total 6,035 5,381 48,537





Lake County Citizens 13,197 10,181 7,708

Noncitizens 8,477 9,668 35,171

Total 21,674 19,849 42,879





McHenry County Citizens 3,494 1,412 1,571

Noncitizens 1,982 1,270 7,527

Total 5,476 2,682 9,098





Will County Citizens 4,709 5,056 4,148

Noncitizens 2,767 3,588 11,762

Total 7,476 8,644 15,910





Source: 2000 Census







IRISH: There are 5,000 to 7,000 undocumented immigrants from Ireland, said Clodagh Murphy, secretary of Chicago Celts for Immigration Reform. Murphy said 70 percent to 80 percent of Irish illegal immigrants pay taxes and medical expenses. Murphy was able to take her older brother's body back home to her parents in Ireland after he was killed in a car accident last year, but her other brother, who is undocumented, couldn't go back. "All we want is a right to live here," she said.

POLISH: One million people in the Chicago area are first-, second- or third-generation Polish, according to Frank Spula, president of the Polish American Congress. About half of the estimated 70,000 undocumented Polish workers in the United States live in Chicago, he said. The Polish National Alliance, an organization in the Polish American Congress that has 190,000 members nationally, is pushing its members to attend the march, reaching out through Polish newspapers and radio stations. Immigration helped build the United States, Spula said, but he does not support blanket amnesty for illegal immigrants. "We should have general rules that are observed by all," he said.

Rummana Hussain

Contributing: Eric Herman




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Does anyone remember the cartoons where the character realized he/she had been had and they were presented as the character, but with a cellophane wrapped sucker for a head?

Feeling a little 'suckered', yet????

What killed me is there are more illegals, sometimes double the amount of the citizens. And that was from the 2000 census. I am the minority in my county by far.

I think they have made a huge mistake with all this 'diversity' stuff...bringing in people who are unlike us religiously, linquistically, historically is not a good thing. It does not 'enlarge' us, 'educate' us, 'enlighten' us...but it DOES do a good job of chaos.

My son has a T-shirt that reads "Panic, Strife, Chaos, My job is finished here"...I think our government has done an excellent job of finishing this nation....and NOW Bush wants to bring in 300,000 COMMUNIST N. Koreans...in one fell swoop. I'd always heard that the communists were our enemies...why would he want to 'save' them...shouldn't they be supported by their own communist counterparts?

Just think...in a few more years we can share the status of all these dislocated peoples from the communist countries. Those that weren't murdered, anyway. What a future they have planned for AMERICA...

MJ

It's us who is to blame, we continue letting them in, and we hire them.

DO NOT BUY FROM COMPANIES WHO USE ILLEGALS

DO NOT HIRE ILLEGALS

DO NOT BUY FROM COMPANIES SUPPORTING THE BULLS*** BOYCOTT.

We still hold the money for now, but if it continues say hello to the new mexico.

All we need is a bunch of head-banging, suicide bombers!
Enough of this damn diversity crap.

Hang on here! Non-citizens doesn't necessarily mean ILLEGAL citizens. There is a big difference.

Hang on here! Non-citizens doesn't necessarily mean ILLEGAL citizens. There is a big difference.

Yes, that's true. They didn't give a count of all the illegals then and beleive me it's doubled since then. I've been reading alot of articles where 1 person in the family might be legal, but now the rest of the family has come to join them. There's many counted then as non-citizens that are now illegal because their visas expired. There's many that were here on tourist visas that expired and are now illegal and living here. There's alot that are caught in the slow, long process, that are afraid it's all going to be for nothing. I just thought the numbers were interesting because you can see europeans are no longer the majority and even though there are alot of immigrants here, legal yet not citizens and not legal....the only group that has pushed their language and by far are the majority, are the hispanic.

I've been reading alot of articles where 1 person in the family might be legal, but now the rest of the family has come to join them.

People send their kids off alone with coyotes to go live with a relative in the US. It is really disgusting to see it.
Recently, a 14 year old girl was found dead in the Rio. It has since been announced that she was an illegal alien. What kind of people turn their kids out to fend for themselves?