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Title: Protests Over Immigration Bill Continue; Tens of thousands of students walked out of school in California and other states Monday
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Associated Press
URL Source: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.c ... /03/27/national/a101430S45.DTL
Published: Mar 27, 2006
Author: Associated Press
Post Date: 2006-03-27 15:48:06 by Brian S
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Views: 286
Comments: 18
(03-27) 12:46 PST Los Angeles (AP) -- Tens of thousands of students walked out of school in California and other states Monday, waving flags and chanting slogans in a second week of protests against legislation to crack down on illegal immigrants. In Washington, 100 demonstrators wore handcuffs at the Capitol to protest a bill that would make it a felony to be in this country illegally and would make it crime to dispense aid to the nation's 11 million illegal immigrants. Immigrant supporters also object to legislation that would also impose new penalties on employers who hire illegal immigrants and would build fences along part of the U.S.-Mexican border. More than 500,000 people gathered in downtown Los Angeles on Saturday, and tens of thousands rallied in Phoenix and Milwaukee last week. On Monday, California's Cesar Chavez Day, at least 8,500 students marched out of eight Los Angeles-area schools, including the San Fernando Valley and the wealthy coastal enclave of Pacific Palisades, said Monica Carazo, spokeswoman for the Los Angeles school district. By midmorning, the protests had spread to downtown, where hundreds of students walked the streets and chanted. The boycott had the tacit approval of school officials in some of the heavily Hispanic downtown schools, where word was passed through hall posters and public address systems. In some areas, teachers and administrators walked with students "as a safety measure," Carazo said. A few schools chose to bar their doors to prevent walkouts. Officials at Huntington Park High School locked the gates after classes started, but the students climbed over a chain-link fence and joined marchers in their heavily immigrant community. Police went on a citywide alert, but no major confrontations reported. Hundreds of teenagers also walked out of several high schools in Dallas and headed for a rally at a park, some carrying Mexican flags and others posters calling for Congress to recognize immigrant rights. In Detroit, protesters waving Mexican flags marched from the southwest side of the city where many Hispanics live toward a federal building downtown. "We are illegal immigrants if you trace our heritage all the way back, but we are here and we are working and we are living the American dream," said Janet Padron, a 22-year-old Allen Park resident. "Do you see the community?" Padron asked, pointing to the thousands of people around her. "Do you see how many people didn't go to work today?" URL: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/n/a/2006/03/27/national/a101430S45.DTL
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#1. To: Brian S (#0)
Why should the illegal immigrants get taxpayer funded aid?
What amazes me is that there are people coming right out in the newspaper and declaring themselves and their families to be illegals. They should simply be picked up and immediately deported. As for all these "teenagers" (many of whom are probably in their twenties) if they are illegals, they should not be in our public schools. Send a few busloads around for them too. I don't know what it is going to take to get the people in this god forsaken country to realize that we have been INVADED. Aside from a few souls like the folks on this board, no one seems to give a shit about America anymore. She's like the neighborhood floozy everybody takes a turn with.
I don't know...Freepers are turning on Jorge en masse right now...wonder if they'll kiss and make-up, or head for divorce court?
ROFLMAO! To: NormsRevenge Hey, this is your sellout CONgress that virtually everyone of you voted for their last election. Thanks to you all we get these POS. Of course, this is no big deal to you FReepers. And GW was the guy that many of you at one time - when some of us told you to beware of - wanted on Mt Rushmore. I AM DONE. THIS REPRESENTS NO GOVERNMENT. IT IS TIME FOR A FULL OUT REVOLUTION. Or sit on your a$$ & let it all crumble. 20 posted on 03/27/2006 4:16:30 PM PST by Digger [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]
#16. To: All (#15)
*rolling* No, they ain't real happy over at FR.
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#9. To: mehitable (#3)
Aside from a few souls like the folks on this board, no one seems to give a shit about America anymore.
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