PRO-ILLEGALS vs. NO-ILLEGALS
Members of the organization SaveOurState and other organizations like the Minutemen protested this past Saturday in Maywood California. Many of you that have been with us (the ALIPAC) for a long time remember that we worked with Save Our State to take down the offensive LA Billboards in only 8 days.
The protest was designed to bring attention to Maywood's decision to openly declare their city a sanctuary city where illegal aliens will be asked no questions by police.
At the protest, about 70 people that are against illegal immigration were counter protested by a group of 200 illegal aliens, communists, anarchists, socialists, etc... (The Usual Suspects). While police worked hard to keep them separate the results were dramatic.
At least four vehicles belonging to those protesting illegal immigration were damaged and there were multiple assaults.
Another picture worth a thousand words has emerged. The pro-illegal alien protesters took down the US Flag in front of the post office near their protest line and raised the Mexican flag instead.
The local news reports are leaving these important details out.
Here is the local report on our homepage.
ALIPAC NOTE:
The news article below fails to mention that anti-illegal immigration protesters were attacked,cars were vandalized, and the American flag was lowered by the pro-illegal alien protesters. They then raised the Mexican flag on federal property of the United States.
Please see the link at the end of the article for pictures and videos
August 27, 2006
For a couple of hours Saturday, a small group of demonstrators made Slauson Avenue in the tiny city of Maywood feel like the red-hot center of the national debate over immigrant rights.
A few dozen people from Save Our State and like-minded groups lined up behind police barricades, shouted into bullhorns and waved American flags to protest characterizations of the heavily Latino, square-mile city by some elected officials as a sanctuary for illegal immigrants.
Separated from the Save Our State contingent by other barricades and a line of riot-ready police a block away, about 200 counter-demonstrators shouted into their own bullhorns that it was time for amnesty and for the "racists" to go home.
Joseph Turner of San Bernardino, founder of Save Our State, said his group staged the protest in Maywood "to punish the city … for their transgressions" by disrupting traffic and commerce and making the city pay for extra police.
Protester Roger Young, an aerospace engineer from Lake Forest, said he had been involved in two traffic accidents with illegal immigrants who had no driver's licenses or insurance and tried to walk away, even though they were at fault. He said he was upset about people breaking laws, adding that it is difficult to get his point of view heard. "To voice a different opinion in this city," he said, "it takes 100 policemen for an escort."
Maywood's police force, which has about 40 officers, was heavily mobilized Saturday, supplemented by officers from nearby cities, including South Gate, Whittier and Huntington Park, and by Los Angeles school police.
Maywood Mayor Thomas Martin estimated that the city would pay $20,000 to $30,000 for police overtime.
No arrests were made as police turned back attempts by counter-demonstrators to take side streets around the barricades and confront the Save Our State group.
Pedro Olguin, a union organizer from Maywood, stood with the counter-protesters, many of whom were from groups that drew from outside the city. Among them were Act Now to Stop War and End Racism, and the Mexica Movement, which proclaims that peoples indigenous to the Americas "are not the illegals. Europeans are the illegals."
Olguin said he is part of a coalition that prevailed upon the Maywood City Council to oppose legislation that passed the House of Representatives in December calling for tougher enforcement measures against illegal immigrants.
Opponents of the legislation believe it would require cities such as Maywood, which is 96% Latino, to aggressively enforce immigration laws.
The city's resolution opposing the federal legislation was designed to say, "We won't use city funds to enforce immigration laws," Olguin said.
Martin, who supported the measure and well-publicized statements by a colleague that Maywood is a "sanctuary city," was promoting an event at St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church three blocks away, where a couple of hundred people were treated to free lunch and Mariachi music while they were urged to become citizens and register to vote.
Martin said immigration enforcement by local authorities would promote unfair ethnic profiling.
In going on record against the federal legislation, he said, "We wanted to send a clear message to all departments of the community that we don't want you to be" immigration agents, he said.
Maywood has an official population of 28,000. But local officeholders say that about 45,000 people live there when illegal immigrants are fully counted.
If you would like to view pictures or video of this event, you may do so at......
http://www.alipac.us/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=39164
The protest was designed to bring attention to Maywood's decision to openly declare their city a sanctuary city where illegal aliens will be asked no questions by police.
At the protest, about 70 people that are against illegal immigration were counter protested by a group of 200 illegal aliens, communists, anarchists, socialists, etc... (The Usual Suspects). While police worked hard to keep them separate the results were dramatic.
At least four vehicles belonging to those protesting illegal immigration were damaged and there were multiple assaults.
Another picture worth a thousand words has emerged. The pro-illegal alien protesters took down the US Flag in front of the post office near their protest line and raised the Mexican flag instead.
The local news reports are leaving these important details out.
Here is the local report on our homepage.
ALIPAC NOTE:
The news article below fails to mention that anti-illegal immigration protesters were attacked,cars were vandalized, and the American flag was lowered by the pro-illegal alien protesters. They then raised the Mexican flag on federal property of the United States.
Please see the link at the end of the article for pictures and videos
August 27, 2006
For a couple of hours Saturday, a small group of demonstrators made Slauson Avenue in the tiny city of Maywood feel like the red-hot center of the national debate over immigrant rights.
A few dozen people from Save Our State and like-minded groups lined up behind police barricades, shouted into bullhorns and waved American flags to protest characterizations of the heavily Latino, square-mile city by some elected officials as a sanctuary for illegal immigrants.
Separated from the Save Our State contingent by other barricades and a line of riot-ready police a block away, about 200 counter-demonstrators shouted into their own bullhorns that it was time for amnesty and for the "racists" to go home.
Joseph Turner of San Bernardino, founder of Save Our State, said his group staged the protest in Maywood "to punish the city … for their transgressions" by disrupting traffic and commerce and making the city pay for extra police.
Protester Roger Young, an aerospace engineer from Lake Forest, said he had been involved in two traffic accidents with illegal immigrants who had no driver's licenses or insurance and tried to walk away, even though they were at fault. He said he was upset about people breaking laws, adding that it is difficult to get his point of view heard. "To voice a different opinion in this city," he said, "it takes 100 policemen for an escort."
Maywood's police force, which has about 40 officers, was heavily mobilized Saturday, supplemented by officers from nearby cities, including South Gate, Whittier and Huntington Park, and by Los Angeles school police.
Maywood Mayor Thomas Martin estimated that the city would pay $20,000 to $30,000 for police overtime.
No arrests were made as police turned back attempts by counter-demonstrators to take side streets around the barricades and confront the Save Our State group.
Pedro Olguin, a union organizer from Maywood, stood with the counter-protesters, many of whom were from groups that drew from outside the city. Among them were Act Now to Stop War and End Racism, and the Mexica Movement, which proclaims that peoples indigenous to the Americas "are not the illegals. Europeans are the illegals."
Olguin said he is part of a coalition that prevailed upon the Maywood City Council to oppose legislation that passed the House of Representatives in December calling for tougher enforcement measures against illegal immigrants.
Opponents of the legislation believe it would require cities such as Maywood, which is 96% Latino, to aggressively enforce immigration laws.
The city's resolution opposing the federal legislation was designed to say, "We won't use city funds to enforce immigration laws," Olguin said.
Martin, who supported the measure and well-publicized statements by a colleague that Maywood is a "sanctuary city," was promoting an event at St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church three blocks away, where a couple of hundred people were treated to free lunch and Mariachi music while they were urged to become citizens and register to vote.
Martin said immigration enforcement by local authorities would promote unfair ethnic profiling.
In going on record against the federal legislation, he said, "We wanted to send a clear message to all departments of the community that we don't want you to be" immigration agents, he said.
Maywood has an official population of 28,000. But local officeholders say that about 45,000 people live there when illegal immigrants are fully counted.
If you would like to view pictures or video of this event, you may do so at......
http://www.alipac.us/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=39164
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