More from the Los Angeles Pravda:
More Than 500,000 Rally in L.A. for Immigrants' Rights
By Teresa Watanabe and Anna Gorman, Times Staff Writer
2:51 PM PST, March 25, 2006
Joining what some are calling the nation's largest mobilization of immigrants ever, hundreds of thousands of people boisterously marched in downtown Los Angeles Saturday to protest federal legislation that would crack down on undocumented immigrants, penalize those who help them and build a security wall on the U.S. southern border. Spirited crowds representing labor, religious groups, civil-rights advocates and ordinary immigrants stretched over 26 blocks of downtown Los Angeles from Adams Blvd. along Spring Street and Broadway to City Hall, tooting kazoos, waving American flags and chanting "Si se puede!" (Yes we can!). The crowd, estimated by police at more than 500.000, represented one of the largest protest marches in Los Angeles history, surpassing Vietnam War demonstrations and the 70,000 who rallied downtown against Proposition 187, a 1994 state initiative that denied public benefits to undocumented migrants...
Saturday's rally, spurred by anger over legislation passed by the U.S. House of Representatives last December, was part of what many say is an unprecedented effort to organize immigrants and their supporters across the nation. The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee is to take up efforts Monday to complete work on a comprehensive immigration reform proposal. Unlike the House bill, which beefed up border security and toughened immigration laws, the Senate committee's version is expected to include a guest worker program and a path to legalization for the nation's 10 to 12 million undocumented immigrants...
Throughout the afternoon, protesters heard speakers demand a path toward legalization and denounce HR 4437, which would tighten border enforcement and crack down on employers who hire undocumented workers...
If by "tightened border enforcement" you mean an iron curtain between America and Mexico and "crack down" you mean turn the undocumented- and everyone who helps them- into felons, why, yes, that.
Mr. Sensenbrenner is a piece of work. This is the same clown of a Representative that wanted to abolish the 22nd Amendment and make Bu$hie preznit for life. That wanted to subject the Katrina victims to more stringent bankruptcy laws. The same intellect that wanted everyone to carry a national ID- with all their information on a single chip. The same charitable individual who wanted to draft every man, woman, and child into the War on Drugs- and make a felony if you didn't co-operate.
The man's a republican from Wisconsin, but he might as well be a Dixiecrat.
This tool of a Wrethuglican is definitely playing a Neo-Confederate race card:
...Hispanics are immigrating in large numbers now into the Southeast, or I should say the former Confederate states, excepting Texas and Southern Florida. It isn't something largely confined to the Southwest and major urban centers outside the South. This is where the base of the Republican party is. There has developed a reaction against this immigration in these areas. The Neo-Confederate movement and a lot of other movements have taken up this issue...
These reactionary elements and others see immigration as an issue to take control of conservatism in the South, if not the nation...
Suddenly the Republican party is going to have to try to get votes from two groups that will be increasingly at odds with each other. Also, what happens to Hispanics in Alabama will get back to Hispanics in California.
Hispanic immigrants didn't grow up as minorities and don't have the habits of deference or accomodations to prejudice. They may be poor or disadvantaged materially, but they don't have internalized anti-Hispanic values.
They will have no inclination to accommodate themselves to a subordinated role, and no prior history of accomodation to subordination. They will challenge anti-Hispanic tactics and efforts in the Southeast, not give in to them. They will not have religious leaders saying that some anti-Hispanic measure is okay.
Of course, illegal immigration in America is caused by the same forces that cause massive unemployment in Detroit.
The Corporate States of America want slaves, not workers earning a real wage.
But here's the rub: without real wages, there's no real consumption. No real consumption is deadly for big business. Correction: for consumer-based big business. The Carlyle boys will be happy as long as there's a strongman somewhere who wants what they sell.
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