Immigration Rallies Draw Thousands Nationwide
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Thousands of people across the country protested Friday against legislation cracking down on illegal immigrants, with demonstrators in such cities as Los Angeles, Phoenix and Atlanta staging school walkouts, marches and work stoppages.
Congress is considering bills that would make it a felony to be illegally in the United States, impose new penalties on employers who hire illegal immigrants and erect fences along one-third of the U.S.-Mexican border. The proposals have angered many Hispanics.
The Los Angeles demonstration led to fights between black and Hispanic students at one high school, but the protests were largely peaceful, authorities said.
Chantal Mason, a sophomore at George Washington Preparatory High, said black students jumped Hispanic students as they left classes to protest a bill passed the House in December that would make it a felony to be in the U.S. illegally.
"It was horrible, horrible," Mason said. "It's ridiculous that a bunch of black students would jump on Latinos like that, knowing they're trying to get their freedom."
In Phoenix, police said 10,000 demonstrators marched to the office of Republican Sen. Jon Kyl, co-sponsor of a bill that would give illegal immigrants up to five years to leave the country. The turnout clogged a major thoroughfare.
"They're here for the American Dream," said Malissa Greer, 29, who joined a crowd estimated by police to be at least 10,000 strong. "God created all of us. He's not a God of the United States, he's a God of the world."
Kyl had no immediate comment on the rally.
At least 500 students at Huntington Park High School near Los Angeles walked out of classes in the morning. Hundreds of the students, some carrying Mexican flags, walked down the middle of Los Angeles streets, police cruisers behind them.
In Georgia, activists said tens of thousands of workers did not show up at their jobs Friday after calls for a work stoppage to protest a bill passed by the Georgia House on Thursday.
That bill, which has yet to gain Senate approval, would deny state services to adults living in the U.S. illegally and impose a 5 percent surcharge on wire transfers from illegal immigrants.
Supporters say the Georgia measure is vital to homeland security and frees up limited state services for people legally entitled to them. Opponents say it unfairly targets workers meeting the demands of some of the state's largest industries.
Teodoro Maus, an organizer of the Georgia protest, estimated as many as 80,000 Hispanics did not show up for work. About 200 converged on the steps of the Georgia Capitol, some wrapped in Mexican flags and holding signs reading: "Don't panic, we're Hispanic" and "We have a dream, too."
Jennifer Garcia worried what would the proposal would do to her family. She said her husband is an illegal Mexican immigrant.
"If they send him back to Mexico, who's going to take care of them and me?" Garcia said of herself and her four children. "This is the United States. We need to come together and be a whole."
On Thursday, thousands of people filled the streets of Milwaukee for what was billed as "A Day Without Latinos" to protest efforts in Congress to target undocumented workers. Police estimated more than 10,000 people joined the demonstrations and march to downtown Milwaukee. Organizers put the number at 30,000.
This is why we need to close our borders! Most of these "illegal dumb asses" are INHERENTLY STUPID! Like this "ignorant" bimbo Jennifer Garcia in Georgia. "If they send him back to Mexico, who will take care of me and my 4 kids"? Uh, excuse me bitch, that is NOT the problem of the United States, nor should it be. Take you and your illegal husbands ass back to Mexico, get a Mexican life and leave us the f..k alone! Or, if you are going to come here, come here legally! And while you are at it, take all the rest of the illegal scumbags that think the USA owes them something, back with you. We don't owe you shit! Instead of coming here and becoming a drain on our infrastructure, here's a novel idea, "try staying in your piece of crap country and try to make IT better"!
If you come on my property, or, in my house illegally, I have the right to shoot you. Bet you wouldn't like it if all of a sudden the USA applied that principal to it's house? Try being an illegal immigrant in China or Russia or somewhere like that, and see what happens to your sorry ass!
The American people have had enough of the "illegal immigrant" bullshit. You better wake your dumb asses up and start facing reality. You think life is tough now, it is getting ready to get a lot TOUGHER.
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Not much is going to change. They're here. Our politicians may be incompetent, but they're not so ignorant that they think that 12 million + people are going to just up and leave.
They're here. Get used to it.
I don't get used to anything I don't except as gospel. Yeah, they are here, does not mean it's permanent. Always gonna have some, but, we can whittle that down. The American people are sick of the bullshit!
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