“Small” And “Smaller”: Pro-Illegal Immigration Protests Fizzle In Phoenix, Chicago, New York And Los Angeles

May 1st, 2010 (28) Posted By Pat Dollard.

Immigration Protests

AZ Central:

Crowds gather at Arizona Capitol

Small crowds gather to protest immigration law.

Protesters gathered in Phoenix and Tucson Saturday for May Day rallies as anger over Arizona’s strict immigration law continues to fester.

Latino activists, students, laborers and mothers with children in strollers met on the state Capitol lawn under the eye of Arizona authorities standing watch and videotaping the event from the roof of the state Senate building.

The event was peaceful as speakers talked over a megaphone to denounce the state law that requires local law enforcement to question people about their immigration status if there’s reason to suspect they’re in the country illegally. It also makes it a state crime to be in the United States illegally.

Some activists came from as far away as Los Angeles to rally against the new law.

Citlelli Anahuac, a spokeswoman for the Mexica student movement, said they came to Arizona to show support and to confront white supremacy.

“We’re tired of being harassed for being Mexican and Mexican-descent,” Anahuac told The Associated Press.

“The law is specifically targeted to brown people even if you’re from here, you’ve been here five or six generations. You’re not going to escape this racial profiling,” Anahuca said.

Crowds were light Saturday morning.

Los Angeles Times:

LAPD: Crowd orderly, smaller than anticipated

Estimated Crowd At Immigration Rally Is Half of What Expected

[Updated, 3 p.m.: Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck estimated that about 50,000 immigration rights activists participated in Saturday's May Day rally, about half of what organizers estimated earlier.

Police and organizers had anticipated a larger crowd because of the controversy surrounding the recent passage of a tough immigration law in Arizona that allows police to check the legal status of people they believe are in the state illegally.

“All this was an estimate," Beck said when asked about the department's earlier projection. "These are educated guesses. We were unable to tell what the event in Arizona would do, so we estimated 100,000 people.”]

Only one arrest has been reported for a minor vandalism incident.

“The event was peaceful,” Beck said. “Everyone who came out here was peaceful,” Beck said.

“Everyone got to do what they came out here to do, which is express their issues.”

Beck attributed the peacefulness of Saturday’s march to months of coordination between police and the march organizers.

“We spent months with organizers making sure we were all on the same page,” Beck said.

AZ Central:

“I want to thank the governor of Arizona because she’s awakened a sleeping giant,” said labor organizer John Delgado who attended a rally in New York where authorities estimated 6,500 gathered.

Organizers estimated about 20,000 gathered at a park on Chicago’s West Side and marched, but police said only about 8,000 turned out.

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  • vincenzo4

    “We’re tired of being harassed for being Mexican and Mexican-descent” BULLSHIT

    • TerryTate

      I’m tired of being harassed by Mexicans because I’m an American.

  • Lew Wadd

    [Updated, 3 p.m.: Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck estimated that about 50,000 immigration rights activists participated in Saturday's May Day rally, about half of what organizers estimated earlier.

    To be reported as 50,000,000 by the LLMSM.

  • Cold Soldier

    I’m so sick of hearing the term “Racial Profiling”. You uneducated bastards, there are 3 races, Mongoloid Caucizoid, and Negroid…you are a FREAKING NATIONALITY ,NOT A RACE :!:

  • Xavier

    Protesting laws against illegal immigration, is some how un-American in my mind.

    I mean the reason the word “illegal” precedes the word “immigration” or “immigrant” is because the FKR IS ILLEGALLY HERE!!!

    If it pleases you to give America away to immigrants then I recommend that you protesters denounce your U.S. Citizenship (that you were blessed with, mind you) and move to the shit country which these illegals are trying to escape from & convert America in to.

    Illegal immigrant rights is an oxymoron! Then again considering you protesters choose to mooch off of the system instead of educate yourself to become a producing member of AMERICAN society you probably don’t have a FKN clue what an oxymoron is.

    I say lets cut out the middle man (the government) and you blood sucking moochers can just walk up to any hard working American and demand they give your worthless piece of shit ass ‘yo money’ Only then will you realize how very alone you are in AMERICA!

    • MarineDoc

      :beer: :beer:

    • copperpeony

      :beer: :beer: :beer:

  • reagan54

    I live in Arizona I have not paid much attention to Gov. Brewer since she took over after Jan Nap. I like her! I looked back at the things she has done since Nap left, and she was left with a huge fiscal disaster. Quietly and consistently she has tackled one thing after the other.

    Thank God for miracles you never knew existed.

    • pub

      She’s fed level material.

  • Tyler520

    Someone really needs to put together a strong national rally in support of this measure. polling shows that between 60 and 80 percent of people acorsss the country (75% on average) support such measures – now is the time to prove it.

    Of course, Tea Party rallies have had as many as 5,000, only to be reported as “a few dozen.” so there would be no reason to suspect either these rallies, or ours will ever be reported properly

  • ji

    I moved out of AZ because of Nap.
    I got a better job though.
    I knew a lot of indians and Mexicans who hated the illegals.
    They steal from all races.
    On the news in Phoenix they kept saying there were a lot of blacks at the rally.
    I looked and didnt see a single one.
    I know for a fact the blacks and mexses just hate each other.

  • Tim Roesch – pseudo intellectual

    Noted from the article:

    “Citlelli Anahuac, a spokeswoman for the Mexica student movement, said they came to Arizona to show support and to confront white supremacy.”

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexica_Movement

    Interesting: North America for the Aztecs…

  • KansasGirl

    They are “illegal aliens”. Immigrants go through proper channels.

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  • PatriotsPixie

    Not trying to argue with someone who agrees with me – - but dating back to the days of fighting with John McCain over the so called immigration bill in 2007 & ’08, – - they are not immigrants at all but they are ‘illegal invaders’ or ‘criminal invaders’. As someone here earlier said – they are not immigrants because they make no attempt to assimilate and learn ‘how to be Americans’ – including speaking our language.

    Pixie

  • Pull

    Criminal Aleins. Crimaleins. Or maybe they should be called The Entitled. Either way we lose.

  • MONKEYSDAD(BEATING BACK THE HOARDES OF INVADERS ON THE RIO GRANDE)

    I am an AF brat 10 year active duty. AZ home of record. Live in South tx on the Rio Grande. Shock of shock wife is considering us moving back to AZ. Love it.

  • http://www.myspace.com/ssgduke ssgduke57_Retire

    If we don’t change our ways soon the United States will not be the “United States”! The Illegal Alien population is at a point where they don’t have to fear Immigration or the USA Government! Why?!! Because our country is a corrupt nanny Politically Correct people now and this beloved country is declining from PC corruption! The Illegal Aliens can now form their own Political Parties that will do their best to tear this country apart and to form there own 3rd World Banana Socialist Countries! From Southern California, parts of Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas will be the ones taken over first. Thanks Republicans and Democrats for selling out our beloved country for the cheap votes and the cheap slave labor from Illegal Aliens! May God have mercy on our souls for allowing this to happened!!!

    • Arius

      Yes, it was the Republicans and Democrats that jointly engineered this disaster for the US.

  • Rocky Mtn 1776

    There is a good chance we have already passed the point of no return on the immigration issue. Our elected leaders have not only refused to enforce our immigration laws, the have imported about 1 million legal immigrants a year from every third world Hellhole on earth into the USA. With the super high birthrate of the Muslim & Latino world we are being flooded with cultures who will never be the Americans we once knew. We are last losing our culture, language and American way of life and we allowed our elected officals to do this to us.

  • T-Rony

    Did the Immigration officers immediatley go there and start checking green cards?Looks like shooting fish in a barrel to me.. :gun: :gun: :beer: :gun: :gun:

  • Bobby E

    If they’re getting “small” and “smaller”, then they are being consituted with the “dumb” and “dumber”.

  • tjamesmichael

    In 1932 WW1 vetrans marched on Washington. This was the result:On July 28, U.S. Attorney General Mitchell ordered the veterans removed from all government property. Washington police met with resistance, shots were fired and two veterans were killed. President Hoover then ordered the army to clear out the veterans. The infantry and cavalry were supported by six tanks, and commanded by Army Chief of Staff General Douglas MacArthur. Major, later President, Dwight D. Eisenhower was his liaison with Washington police, and Major George Patton led the cavalry. The Bonus Army, their wives and children were driven out with fixed bayonets and adamsite gas, an arsenical vomiting agent, and their shelters and belongings burned. Two more of the veterans, and an unknown number of babies and children, died (accounts range from one to “a number” of casualties).THESE WERE VETRANS!

    SO WE should really give a fuck about these roaches. I say AIM READY FIRE!

  • Jack

    Have you considered that it could be possible that the majority in that rally group of protesters are illegal’s themselves.

  • copperpeony

    Lets start with this: there are 9 muslim babies born for 1 white baby born here in the U.S.

  • Badger

    mertin,

    This makes no sense especially here in the United States. Ever taken a cross country trip? You would know this nation consists of nothing but land broken up by rare city concentrations. Huge swaths of land from the San Joaquin Valley, Arizona, Wyoming, Kansas, Pennsylvania, the Carolina’s, the Dakota’s, Montana, Alabama I mean you name the state.

    If the necessary infrastructure were managed well as apposed to the pre-school talent we’re all enjoying at the moment, we could triple our current population with ease. As being a retired Air Force Officer and the son of an AF test pilot I’ve been all over this country more than a few times. I never did get the population thing. If folks can make a nice home in Box Elder, South Dakota they can make a home anywhere.

    Badger

  • GRIZZ

    Wow mertin,you must have boned up on “The communists manifesto”

  • Lone Wolf

    Hong Kong is a good example of high-density population and how free markets can bring prosperity even with barely any native natural resources. Given liberty, people create wealth – it’s not a finite commodity or a zero-sum game. The stone age didn’t end because we ran out of stone.