This guy was at least polite to me, I had been trying to get a picture of myself with a supporter of illgal immigration all day and no one would. Of course, he though that I was on their side. At this point I was the last protestor (for our side) there.
The guy in the white hat with the camera is Eric from People for the American way. Apparently no one told him that these were Mexicans, not Americans. He was also unwilling to debate, talk to, or take a picture with me. But I'm still interested Eric...
Click on the picture to enlarge. The counter-protestors, or supporters of illegal aliens, were an interesting bunch. You had socialists, anarchists, union members, and Americans who identify themselves as Mexican. Quote: I was born in American, raised if Fresno, but I'm still Mexican.
Uhh, no you're not. If you were born in Mexico then you are a Mexican. You are an American. (though I'll concede that you are a bad American)
While the event was originally supposed to be held at the local middle school, it seems that the Mexican consulate was scared enough of OFIR that they had to move the venue to the PCUN building at the last minute.
While I had one or two decent conversations, most of the criminal supporters had the maturity of a 9 year-old.
Again, no one was protesting immigrants, we were protesting criminal aliens. But aside, I had several people insist that illegal aliens pay soooo much in taxes and then in their next sentence talk about their poverty. When I informed them that people making less than $30K a year don't pay federal taxes they would end the conversation.
And I'm not sure what the significance of the Mexican flag is, maybe they pay taxes in Mexico?
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Daniel, thanks for being there and documenting this. I had a terrible cold yesterday and this morning and figured it would not be too smart to go stand in the cold rain for 2 hours. I hope to get to the next event.
I work for a company that is a vendor to the Clackamas county health clinics. I can say that at least 50% of their "clients" are Mexican illegals. This whole debate is not just about a few illegals that come here to work the crops or whatever and then go home. That might be OK, but we are talking about families receiving benefits that even I as a lifelong Oregon resident have never received.
And now I read on Yahoo news that Howard Dean is saying that the GOP is using the illegals as a scapegoat to get elected. Wow. This guy has no clue as to how the average american feels about this issue. As if we should just ignore the invasion and be happy with it?
While Howard Dean says that our Republican "leaders" are insisting that we should not oppose illegal immigration.
Tony, is was very clear about what he was talking about. Since no one is "anti-immigrant" that leaves only those of us who are anti-illegal immigrant.
"Ken Mehlman urged his party Thursday to oppose rising anti-immigrant sentiments in the debate over border security and illegal immigration"
This is the debate that we are having. Mehlman is on the wrong side.
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