We need to counter this.

A coalition of pro-immigration advocates will march on Washington next month to pressure the Senate into defeating pending House-approved legislation making illegal entry a criminal offense and calling for the construction of 700 miles of high-security fences on the U.S.-Mexico border.
Led by the National Alliance for Human Rights (NAHR), the march was approved last week during a meeting in Riverside, Calif., of more than 500 immigration advocates who mapped out a strategy of “social justice and political empowerment” involving Hispanic groups from throughout the United States and Mexico.

Political empowerment for illegal immigrants? How sweet. America. Land of the free and the brave and the non citizens who have more rights than anyone else. Fuck that shit.

Mr. Navarro told The Washington Times that 2006 will be a year of “massive mobilizations, activism and political participation to countervail the heinous, racist and nativist crusade” of those who support the bill and the construction of “an Iron Curtain” along the U.S.-Mexico border.

This guy is an ethics professior. Hmm…what’s up with these people (Ward Churchill is also an ethics professor). What ethics is he talking about? What about the big ethic– following the law???

In addition to efforts by the coalition, the foreign ministers of 11 Latin American countries opposed to the Sensenbrenner bill met in Cartagena, Colombia, last week and also agreed to begin a massive lobbying campaign in Washington to defeat the legislation.

Color me stupid but the last time I looked, America was it’s own nation with it’s own laws written and supported by our own elected officials. Latin America is not a part of the United States.

The ministers will send a team to Capitol Hill this week to identify key members of Congress on the immigration issue. They will call for the implementation of a guest-worker program, outline their opposition to the criminalization of illegal entry, demand better treatment of migrants, and condemn proposals for tighter control of the U.S.-Mexico border.

This has to be one of the best oxymorons I have seen in writing:
“criminalization of illegal entry”
Duh…maybe these people are stupid and haven’t finshed elementary school?
ILLEGAL means prohibited by law.

Ministers who attended the meeting were from Colombia, Mexico, Panama, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Ecuador, Belize, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic. Migrants from those countries are believed by U.S. authorities to send about $32 billion in remittances to relatives at home each year.
Mr. Navarro said the U.S. coalition will focus on strategically formulating “a Mexicano-Latino coordinated response” to the legislation and on what he called the “escalating attacks” on the Mexican and Hispanic communities in this country.

It’s not attacks. It’s defending our homeland. Against those who seek to enter that land and take advantage of our resources, our jobs, our healthcare system, everything. Take your responses and shove them Mr. Navarro. We don’t want you and your smelly illegal friends here.

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