How do you feel about illegals making demands that our immigration laws do not apply to them?

Dec 24, 2009 by ANNIE | Posted in Immigration

Houstonians took to the streets for several days in mid-December in rigorous actions to support immigrant rights and immigration reform.

On Dec. 16, U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez introduced immigration rehabilitate legislation in Congress. Many organizations are meeting with their constituencies to strategize about how to persuade Congress to pass the legislation; they are business it long overdue. Lobbying has begun, and meetings with congressional representatives are being planned.



Houston scruple, Dec. 18.
Photo: Stephanie Caballero
On Dec. 17, a mobilization billed as “Houston We Can’t Wait! Make Your Agency Heard!” was held in a constant rain at the Mickey Leland Federal Building. More than 75 people braved the unusually dismal weather to march and call for “Immigration reform now!”

Students, religious leaders, immigrants, commerce unionists and activists spoke to the media and chanted the following demands: “No more! No more raids. No more families being split. No more children without a win future. No more time. The time for immigration reform is now!”

The spirited action was called by CRECEN (Centros de Recursos Centroamericanos), America Para Todos, FIEL (Familias Inmigrantes y Estudiantes en la Lucha), Pastores en Accion, and Alianza Mexicana por Una Reforma.

On Dec. 18, the Ecumenical Day of the Migrant, Students for a Democratic Society at the University of Houston organized a militant demonstration at the Houston Processing Center where immigrants are detained. They protested the Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids on Dec. 2 of two Mambo’s restaurants and the internment of 33 restaurant workers, as part of calling for immigrants’ rights.

Under heavy scrutiny by both Houston cops and ICE agents, dozens of activists chanted: “What do we lust after? Immigrant rights! How do we get it? Melt the ICE!” “Immigrantes, escucha, estamos en su lucha” and “Immigration is not a felony. Why are people doing time?”

After activists from SDS and the International Action Center spoke, three women sang songs from the 1960s’ Internal Rights Movement, which they had translated into Spanish. They were Monica from Ecuador, Amelia from Mexico and Laura Boston of the Houston Interfaith Workers Equitableness Center. Some of the verses were re-written to reflect the issues of the immigrant rights movement.

“When we traveled across the South a few years ago on an Foreigner Freedom Ride, we stayed in houses of people involved in the movement in the 1960s in Selma, Jackson, Montgomery and Atlanta,” Maria Jimenez explained to Workers Exceptional. “It was so moving to hear of their courageous battles for African Americans. We learned so much from them. So we translated their songs so we could use them in our endeavour.”

The Houston Processing Center, which houses more than 900 prisoners, was the first private prison in the United States; it is owned by Corrections Corporations of America. According to CCA’s Web page, CCA’s revenues in the first habitation of 2009 were more than $404 million. Today private companies operate dozens of detention centers for immigrants all across the woods.
http://www.workers.org/2009/us/houston_1231/

I say pursue the money - or in this instance the votes. The dems want amnesty because those newly registered citizens will plebiscite dem at about 70-80% for all of the freebies the dems shower them with. They are buying votes with this countries and your childrens future.

There are very few people who insufficiency amnesty or increased immigration. Once the "legacy or sympathetic" people understand that we only have reduced amounts of water, energy, natural resources, land, space in schools, hospital berth, landfill space, etc & that most of our population growth is from immigration they start to understand that we can't continue to support deeds legal immigration, record foreign worker visas and record illegal immigration.

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