State Senate Supports Immigrant Walkout On Monday

[eg420ne]

This IS what we need to be worried about not no middle-east bullshit...Im a hispanic and dont like this crap from these people its bullshit! its just another way to break down America, these people dont what to live in America they want it to be part of dirty Mexico, Damn bastards....This works well for the Neo-Cons agenda....

SACRAMENTO California's state senators on Thursday endorsed Monday's boycott of schools, jobs and stores by illegal immigrants and their allies as supporters equated the protest with great social movements in American history.

By a 24-13 vote that split along party lines, the California Senate approved a resolution that calls the one-day protest the Great American Boycott 2006 and describes it as an attempt to educate Americans "about the tremendous contribution immigrants make on a daily basis to our society and economy."

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"It's one day ... for immigrants to tell the country peacefully, 'We matter ... (we're) not invisible,'" said Senate Majority Leader Gloria Romero, D-Los Angeles, the resolution's chief author. She said immigrants make up a third of California's labor force and a quarter of its residents.

Opponents said the nonbinding resolution was misleading because it failed to mention a goal of the boycott was pressuring Congress to legalize millions of undocumented people.

"It is a disingenuous effort to put the government of California on record supporting open borders," said Sen. Bill Morrow, R-Oceanside.

The boycott, also called "A Day Without Immigrants," grew out of huge pro-immigrant marches across the United States in recent weeks. Organizers are urging people to stay home from school and jobs and avoid spending money on Monday to demonstrate their importance to the U.S. economy.

California's top education official appeared with school officials in several cities Thursday to urge students to stay in school on Monday.

State Superintendent for Public Instruction Jack O'Connell encouraged students interested in the immigration issue to voice their opinions by participating in protest activities but only after attending their classes.

"If students need to protest, they should feel free to do so after school," O'Connell told students and reporters at San Jose High Academy. "We want students to exercise free speech, but not at the expense of their education."

Rallies are planned for Monday in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Gardena, Bell, Santa Ana, Sacramento, San Jose, Oakland, Concord and other cities.

School officials in San Leandro, meanwhile, said Thursday that rising tensions over the immigration issue may have contributed to a series of brawls between Hispanic and black teenagers.

Over a dozen San Leandro High School students were taken into custody Wednesday following the fights that started on campus and spilled over into the parking lot of a nearby convenience store.

While educators theorized that the stress children of immigrants are under while the immigration debate roils may have played a role in the violence, students said that racial tensions predated recent developments.

Several senators equated the protest with the civil rights movement of the 1960s and other major events in American history.

Segregation was ended in part because of the public bus boycott by blacks in Montgomery, Ala., in 1955, said Romero.

Sen. Gil Cedillo, D-Los Angeles, likened the debate over immigrant rights to the fights over slavery, women's suffrage, the internment of Japanese during World War II, and the Vietnam War.

America wouldn't have been created without illegal action, said Sen. Richard Alarcon, D-Van Nuys. "They dumped a bunch of tea in Boston harbor, illegally. God bless them," he said.

But Sen. Dave Cox, R-Fair Oaks, said lawmakers should not encourage lawbreakers even if they disagreed with the law.

"It is irresponsible for this body to advocate that students leave school for any reason," Cox said.

He introduced a bill that would require a special school attendance audit on Monday, so that schools would not receive state aid for any student who was truant. School funding is based on attendance levels. O'Connell said the state would not grant waivers to schools that lose funding if students were absent while out protesting.

The debate was personal and emotional for some senators.

Sen. Nell Soto, D-Pomona, recalled watching as a child as immigration police swept up brown-skinned farmworkers, "not even asking if they were legal or illegal."

Sen. Martha Escutia, D-Norwalk, described how her grandfather remained in the country illegally after overstaying a work permit during the 1940s, when he picked fruits and vegetables while American men were fighting World War II.

"This happened 60 years ago. And you know what? The story still continues," Escutia said, choking up as she described her 11-year-old son asking her about the controversy. She said the Great American Boycott should be renamed "the Great American Secret, and that is we all rely on someone who is here illegally."

Sen. Tom McClintock, R-Thousand Oaks, while citing immigrants' contributions, said the nation's goal should be assimilation: "From many people, one people, the American people. One race, the American race."

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[eg420ne]

More bullshit from these criminals

May 1 immigrant boycott aims to 'close' cities

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Pro-immigration activists say a national boycott and marches planned for May 1 will flood U.S. streets with millions of Latinos to demand amnesty for illegal immigrants and shake the ground under Congress as it debates reform.

Such a massive turnout could make for the largest protests since the civil rights era of the 1960s, though not all Latinos -- nor their leaders -- were comfortable with such militancy, fearing a backlash in Middle America.

"There will be 2 to 3 million people hitting the streets in Los Angeles alone. We're going to close down Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, Tucson, Phoenix, Fresno," said Jorge Rodriguez, a union official who helped organize earlier rallies credited with rattling Congress as it debates the issue.


Immigration has split Congress, the Republican Party and public opinion. Conservatives want the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants classified as felons and a fence built along the Mexican border.

Others, including President George W. Bush, want a guest-worker program and a path to citizenship. Most agree some reform is needed to stem the flow of poor to the world's biggest economy.

"We want full amnesty, full legalization for anybody who is here (illegally)," Rodriguez said. "That is the message that is going to be played out across the country on May 1."

Organizers have timed the action for May Day, a date when workers around the world traditionally have marched for improved conditions, and have strong support from big labor and the Roman Catholic church.

They vow that America's major cities will grind to a halt and its economy will stagger as Latinos walk off their jobs and skip school. Continued...
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[Kush Over]

They must not understand the fine line between illegal immigrant and immigrant.

[eg420ne]

No they dont understand they feel they dont need to because no1 is stopping them.. Our government lets it happen because they want it to happen, a break down of America continues

[Bong30]

EG here is one we agree on 100%

We are importing poverty.....

if you dont think its an invasion, try and stop it......

[bichickindallas]

the immigration issue is no ones fault
but the american government.they have swept this issue under the rug for years and will continue to do so.just like they did in the eightes,anyone remeber that?they will allow amnesty or worker programs and we will have double ,mabey triple the immigrants we have now.and why would mexico,and lets not forget its not only mexican immigrants,bosnians,russians,and there are more,i just cant spell them.....but why would those countries work to improve thier economy and better themselves when they can just come here?

[Psycho4Bud]

CAUTION!!!
EG42ONE....SIT DOWN AND DO A BIG ONE BEFORE YOU READ THIS!


An employment service in Mobile, Alabama recently received an "urgent request" to fill 270 job openings from contractors who were hired to rebuild and clear areas of Alabama devastated by Hurricane Katrina. The agency immediately sent 70 laborers and construction workers to three job sites.

After two weeks on the job, the men were fired by employers who told them "the Mexicans had arrived" and were willing to work for lower wages. The Americans had been promised $10 an hour, but the employers preferred Mexicans who would work for less.

Employment agency manager Linda Swope told The Washington Times, "When they told the guys they would not be needed, they actually cried ... and we cried with them. This is a shame."

Ms. Swope said that employment agencies throughout Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi all face similar problems because an estimated 30,000 men from Mexico and Central and South America, many in crowded buses and trucks, came into those three states after Hurricane Katrina, willing to work for less than whatever was paid to American citizens.
http://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/14175.html

Seems this is one issue that both sides of the fence agree on in here.....what the hell is going on in Washington and the State governments?

[Psycho4Bud]

Try to imagine monitoring these peoples borders?

EU pools return flights for illegal aliens
LUXEMBOURG, April 27 (UPI) -- European governments Thursday agreed to increase deportations by using joint chartered flights to return unwanted immigrants.

Under the plan, governments will be responsible for chartering a flight to take illegal immigrants back to their country of origin. Any remaining seats can be filled by other EU member states.

The aim of the joint operation is to cut costs and speed up the return of illegal immigrants, justice and home affairs ministers said.

Members of the Brussels-based club have already set up shared return flight operations on a bilateral basis. Since 2005, France, Spain, Italy, Britain and Germany have used joint chartered flights to send immigrants back to countries such as Romania and Afghanistan.

Meeting in Luxembourg, ministers also called for more use of FRONTEX, the bloc's external borders agency. The Warsaw-based body will be responsible for training national deportation officers in order to ensure that operations are conducted in "full respect of human rights and of the subject being removed".
http://www.upi.com/SecurityTerrorism...7-114739-3186r

[Shelbay]

Well at least Our President had balls enough to tell them to learn to sing Our National Anthem in English and not Spanish as it was presented to him in the rose garden. The words to Americas National Anthem were changed and sung in Spanish?...okay....and Psycho..thanks for mentioning Mobile,Alabama....and that is so wrong what happened.

[Bong30]

he is a puppet on this issue, but for whom?

If i hear the anthem sung in spanish...ill barf.