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Title: Thousands Rally Across The Country For Immigrants' Rights
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Associated Press
URL Source: http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/ ... 257-ca-immigrationrallies.html
Published: Mar 24, 2006
Author: Associated Press
Post Date: 2006-03-24 20:02:11 by Brian S
Keywords: Immigrants, Thousands, Country
Views: 52
Comments: 6
LOS ANGELES – 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 legislation 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. The students visited two other area high schools, trying to encourage students to join their protest, but the schools were locked down to keep students from leaving, said Los Angeles district spokeswoman Monica Carazo. 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.
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#1. To: Brian S (#0)
Yeah..."come together" with Mexico and Canada and the banana republics of Central America and form "a whole" Northern and Central American economic market and free trade zone, just like CFR and its corporate paymasters want. And put American citizens "in a hole."
Our ancestors fought and died for their liberties and ours. If we are worthy of them, we must be prepared to do likewise.
Daddy Bush & Klan's "New World Order" dream, indeed!
Why do I get called racist for not wanting to social engineer things to be different? We're through the looking glass...
Thanks for Prohibition and the war against drugs. Thanks for a country where nobody's allowed to mind their own business. Thanks for a nation of finks. Yes, thanks for all the memories-- all right let's see your arms!- William S Burroughs
Hispanic Employment Initiative "American citizens of Hispanic ancestry still remain the only underrepresented minority group in the federal government." - OPM Director We are aggressively working to remedy this situation and encourage other federal agencies to do the same. See the following links regarding this initiative. ________________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release By the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in order to improve the representation of Hispanics in Federal employment, within merit system principles and consistent with the application of appropriate veterans' preference criteria, to achieve a Federal workforce drawn from all segments of society, it is hereby ordered as follows: Section 1. Policy. It is the policy of the executive branch to recruit qualified individuals from appropriate sources in an effort to achieve a workforce drawn from all segments of society. Pursuant to this policy, this Administration notes that Hispanics remain underrepresented in the Federal workforce: they make up only 6.4 percent of the Federal civilian workforce, roughly half of their total representation in the civilian labor force. This Executive Order, therefore, affirms ongoing policies and recommends additional policies to eliminate the underpresentation of Hispanics in the Federal workforce. Sec. 2. Responsibilities of Executive Departments and Agencies. The head of each executive department and agency (agency) shall establish and maintain a program for the recruitment and career development of Hispanics in Federal employment. In its program, each agency shall: (a) provide a plan for recruiting Hispanics that creates a fully diverse workforce for the agency in the 21st century; (b) assess and eliminate any systemic barriers to the effective recruitment and consideration of Hispanics, including but not limited to: (1) broadening the area of consideration to include applicants from all appropriate sources; (2) ensuring that selection factors are appropriate and achieve the broadest consideration of applicants and do not impose barriers to selection based on nonmerit factors; and (3) considering the appointment of Hispanic Federal executives to rating, selection, performance review, and executive resources panels and boards; (c) improve outreach efforts to include organizations outside the Federal Government in order to increase the number of Hispanic candidates in the selection pool for the Senior Executive Service; (d) promote participation of Hispanic employees in management, leadership, and career development programs; (e) ensure that performance plans for senior executives, managers, and supervisors include specific language related to significant accomplishments on diversity recruitment and career development and that accountability is predicated on those plans; (f) establish appropriate agency advisory councils that include Hispanic Employment Program Managers; (g) implement the goals of the Government-wide Hispanic Employment Initiatives issued by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) in September 1997 (Nine-Point Plan), and the Report to the President's Management Council on Hispanic Employment in the Federal Government of March 1999; (h) ensure that managers and supervisors receive periodic training in diversity management in order to carry out their responsibilities to maintain a diverse workforce; and (i) reflect a continuing priority for eliminating Hispanic underrepresentation in the Federal workforce and incorporate actions under this order as strategies for achieving workforce diversity goals in the agency's Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) Annual Performance Plan. Sec. 3. Cooperation. All efforts taken by heads of agencies under sections 1 and 2 of this order shall, as appropriate, further partnerships and cooperation among Federal, public, and private sector employers, and appropriate Hispanic organizations whenever such partnerships and cooperation are possible and would promote the Federal employment of qualified individuals. In developing the long- term comprehensive strategies required by section 2 of this order, agencies shall, as appropriate, consult with and seek information and advice from experts in the areas of special targeted recruitment and diversity in employment. Sec. 4. Responsibilities of the Office of Personnel Management. The Office of Personnel Management is required by law and regulations to undertake a Government-wide minority recruitment effort. Pursuant to that on- going effort and in implementation of this order, the Director of OPM shall: (a) provide Federal human resources management policy guidance to address Hispanic underrepresentation where it occurs; (b) take the lead in promoting diversity to executive agencies for such actions as deemed appropriate to promote equal employment opportunity; (c) within 180 days from the date of this order, prescribe such regulations as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this order; (d) within 60 days from the date of this order, establish an Interagency Task Force, chaired by the Director and composed of agency officials at the Deputy Secretary level, or the equivalent. This Task Force shall meet semi-annually to: (1) review best practices in strategic human resources management planning, including alignment with agency GPRA plans; (2) assess overall executive branch progress in complying with the requirements of this order; (3) provide advice on ways to increase Hispanic community involvement; and (4) recommend any further actions, as appropriate, in eliminating the underrepresentation of Hispanics in the Federal workforce where it occurs; and (e) issue an annual report with findings and recommendations to the President on the progress made by agencies on matters related to this order. The first annual report shall be issued no later than 1 year from the date of this order. Sec. 5. Judicial Review. This order is intended only to improve the internal management of the executive branch. It does not create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable in law or equity except as may be identified in existing laws and regulations, by a party against the United States, its agencies, its officers or employees, or any other person. THE WHITE HOUSE,
So let them stay in the country God put them in! Let them stay and make their own country great. These people are like deserters, they are not escaping religious persecution.
Why should we hear about body bags, and deaths...I mean, it's not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that? ~Barbara Bush on ABC's "Good Morning America," March 18, 2003.
"Our Enemy, the State"
Our ancestors fought and died for their liberties and ours. If we are worthy of them, we must be prepared to do likewise.
“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.”
#2. To: Peetie Wheatstraw (#1)
Yeah..."come together" with Mexico and Canada and the banana republics of Central America and form "a whole" Northern and Central American economic market and free trade zone, just like CFR and its corporate paymasters want. And put American citizens "in a hole."
#3. To: Brian S (#0)
#4. To: Peetie Wheatstraw (#1)
U.S. Office of Personnel Management
October 12, 2000
October 12, 2000.
#5. To: Brian S (#0)
“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.”
#6. To: Uncle Bill (#4)
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