LA Immigrant Activists Plan June Rally

[WifeOHunkyJohn 2]

LA Immigrant Activists Plan June Rally

Wednesday, May 09, 2007

LOS ANGELES — A week after a pro-immigration rally was broken up by police using batons and rubber bullets, activists announced plans to march again next month to refocus attention on their pleas for a path to citizenship.

Rally organizers hope the planned June 24 march will exceed the crowd of about 25,000 that attended the May 1 demonstration. It ended with riot police using batons and rubber bullets to drive protesters and journalists out of MacArthur Park.

"All of us here today are united in expressing in the clearest voice possible that we can't be intimidated into inaction," said Juan Jose Gutierrez of Latino Movement U.S.A. at a news conference Tuesday outside City Hall.

About a dozen demonstrators stood behind him holding signs calling for amnesty for the roughly 12 million illegal immigrants in the United States.

The new march is planned for the intersection of Hollywood and Vine, in the heart of Hollywood and far from downtown, where prior immigration rallies have taken place. Gutierrez said the location was chosen to get other Los Angeles neighborhoods involved in the reform movement.

"A community divided is a weak community," Gutierrez said.

Also Tuesday, Police Chief William Bratton announced a replacement for the deputy chief who was demoted to the rank of commander and assigned to work from his home following the march.

Sergio Diaz, a 30-year department veteran who is currently assistant commanding officer for the Special Operations Bureau, will replace Cayler "Lee" Carter Jr., who was the highest ranking police official at the scene of the clash.

The melee is the focus of four separate investigations.

The chief told the Police Commission on Tuesday that the elite Metro unit, whose officers cleared the park, was undergoing training this week on use of force. He said he planned to speak to all personnel about crowd dispersal, use of force and the treatment of reporters in the field.

Critics attending the commission meeting said they were outraged by the officers' actions and urged a civilian panel to conduct a thorough investigation.

[sereia 0]

round 'em up!!!!!

[WifeOHunkyJohn 2]

I joked with my hubby that USCIS and Homeland should have a joint venture whereby they hire a ton of trucks, herd the folk into the trucks, and ship them off to the detention center whereby they check their immigration status and deport anyone who is illegal.

Can you imagine how many people that has the potential to remove?

Of course, hubby did point out that I only said I was kidding...

[sereia 0]

sounds like a good idea! lol

[pedroh 21]

grrr I didn't get my bills on time.. it must be the illegals fault

[almaty 19]

grrr I didn't get my bills on time.. it must be the illegals fault

what? and i heard the reason gas is going up is cause of the illegals..

[pedroh 21]

grrr I didn't get my bills on time.. it must be the illegals fault

what? and i heard the reason gas is going up is cause of the illegals..

[Robor007 0]

The talk of amnesty is absolute BS. Why should someone who is in the country illegally be rewarded for their actions? I don't have a problem with decent people immigrating here but I do have a problem with amnesty for illegals. If amnesty is the answer to the illegal immigration problem then I wish I had known before we started the visa process. My wife could have stepped off the ship and disappeared. We would have saved a few thousand dollars and not spent 6 months apart for no reason.

Arrest violent protesters and if they're illegal deport them immediately with a perma-ban.

[peejay 327]

grrr I didn't get my bills on time.. it must be the illegals fault

what? and i heard the reason gas is going up is cause of the illegals..

That can't be right. I heard that Bush made a deal with Fox that we had to take all these illegals so they would sell us Mexican oil on the cheap.

Same as the deal Reagan made with the Saudis that we had to give special treatment to Saudi citizens so they would sell us oil on the cheap.

Look what both deals got us. 9/11 and hordes of illiterate high school drop outs. Some deal, eh? The joke's on us!

[natty bumppo 297]

The talk of amnesty is absolute BS. Why should someone who is in the country illegally be rewarded for their actions? I don't have a problem with decent people immigrating here but I do have a problem with amnesty for illegals. If amnesty is the answer to the illegal immigration problem then I wish I had known before we started the visa process. My wife could have stepped off the ship and disappeared. We would have saved a few thousand dollars and not spent 6 months apart for no reason.

Arrest violent protesters and if they're illegal deport them immediately with a perma-ban.

Maybe they should setup sobriety checkpoints during the demonstration …

lets see …. license and documents please …. breath into this tube … what no documentation for legal status? Please step this way sir/madam …

[almaty 19]

grrr I didn't get my bills on time.. it must be the illegals fault

what? and i heard the reason gas is going up is cause of the illegals..

That can't be right. I heard that Bush made a deal with Fox that we had to take all these illegals so they would sell us Mexican oil on the cheap.

Same as the deal Reagan made with the Saudis that we had to give special treatment to Saudi citizens so they would sell us oil on the cheap.

Look what both deals got us. 9/11 and hordes of illiterate high school drop outs. Some deal, eh? The joke's on us!

touche...good one peejay

[JoeMama 0]

Maybe they should setup sobriety checkpoints during the demonstration …

lets see …. license and documents please …. breath into this tube … what no documentation for legal status? Please step this way sir/madam …

Please step this way sir/madam … [insert own punishment]

[x] You must eat a pound of Ex-Lax and make a run for the border!

[natty bumppo 297]

Maybe they should setup sobriety checkpoints during the demonstration …

lets see …. license and documents please …. breath into this tube … what no documentation for legal status? Please step this way sir/madam …

Please step this way sir/madam … [insert own punishment]

[x] You must eat a pound of Ex-Lax and make a run for the border!

or we will send you to the prison in FL ... for clean-up duty

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=67588

[Donna A 4]

i think they said something like 75% of americans want them to get aminasty (sorry for my spelling) but i sure dont know 1 that does. expecially not here at VJ!!! Deport the bastards!!!

[Mirorgate 0]

i think they said something like 75% of americans want them to get aminasty (sorry for my spelling) but i sure dont know 1 that does. expecially not here at VJ!!! Deport the bastards!!!

That was probrably 75% of american congressmen and senators wanting the amnesty. perks/benies/votes n all not counting i'm sure