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This Saturday’s long urban ramble ended at the Ferry Building on the Embarcadero at 4pm, just in time to join the rally of immigration rights activists planning to march to AT&T Park to protest the Arizona Diamondbacks because of their state’s new "papers please" law.
Here are some photos I took of signs from the rally.
I asked what this sign means. Apparently, when caught, undocumented immigrants have their vehicles seized and then sold at auction with no way to recover them. This amounts to theft by the state, I was told.
This sign was my favorite one from today’s rally. Are you listening, Barack Obama?
This guy made me feel at home at the rally with his sign. My English/Irish/Scots heritage family is also from immigrant stock. I don’t recall anyone talking about our ancestors being asked for their papers when they disembarked at Plymouth Rock in the 17th century.
This sign says it all. Why does money flow freely but labor is not allowed to do so? I did some very hard thinking after I saw this sign.
Have you had a rally or march in your town about the new Arizona ‘papers please’ law? Let us know about it in the comments.
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Great photos – and great points Teddy!
Thanks for sharing the view from SF.
Lead story on our CBS5 local news right now –
Wow, the Phoenix demonstrations look huge today.
Ours was very diverse, Out for Immigration (LGBT) was there, lots of kids, Socialist Worker people, many families, a lot of Hispanic and African-American youth. I had a chance to talk with Don Knapp, our CBS5 reporter, and told him we were there as gay people supporting those targetted by the law.
Thanks Teddy. Recommended.
Yay! Let the illegal aliens into the country! Screw Americans. Time to give all our resources away to foreigners. After all, our country isn’t under our control. That would just be offensive to my perfect liberal sensibilities.
Thank you for the photos!
I’m afraid I only agree on one issue: the way it’s described, vehicles seized and auctioned does amount to theft by the state. I’m uncertain how the assets of an arrested illegal are handled, but I think I remember hearing a couple of horror stories. IMO, I don’t see why any assets should be forfeited unless they come from criminal activities unrelated to immigration status. This might be worth a diary.
You’re right that there were no papers required at Plymouth Rock in 1620, and didn’t that work out well for the local people receiving the immigration wave?
Did you consider that the money flowing freely across the border is either (A) done in accordance with the laws of both countries, or (B) a criminal act?
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I’d like to inform everyone my sister-in-law’s father is from Greece and was an illegal immigrant. He has been here since WWII and lives in Cleveland. Do you want him and his anchor babies and grandchildren sent back to Greece?
Because if not, all this “send the illegals back” looks like it is 100% motivative by anti-native American racism to me.
Do you want to stop throwing around invalid emotional appeals? His “anchor babies and grandchildren” are citizens by birth and in no danger of being sent back anywhere, right?
Greece or Columbia, Canada or Mexico: it’s all the same to me. There’s even a Constitutional Amendment about it. And how many illegals are Anasazi anyway?
Corporations want to be the government:(
On a GOPer would think Labor an expense to be cut rather than a tool to be used.
The day your side arrests the CEO’s of Wallmart and McDonalds who hire the immigrants is the day I stop thinking your corporate tools.
Germany Great Depression what did the rich who led their country to a stupid war and didn’t manage the economy well do BLAME THE JEWS!
What do uneducated in history GOPers do repeat history why they are to unoriginal to come up with something new.
By the way unless your American Indian I suggest you look up the word Irony:)
How big where the crowds Teddy? I’m glad you went
Whats Anchor Baby Michelle Malkin saying ?
Stop stealing Immigrant cars? Whats going on?
“Because if not, all this “send the illegals back” looks like it is 100% motivative by anti-native American racism to me.”
BINGO!
Didn’t Cain get a Mark for smarting off to God saying I am not my Brothers Keeper?
When Israeli Immigrants wanted to leave Egypt and Pharaoh wanted cheap labor the reverse of today’s situation did not the Lord hear his people’s cry?
When strangers Immigrants with wings passing through to visit Lot and the people of Sodom gave them less than a nice welcome did not the LORD rain down Fire and Brimstone?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_prophet
No go Repent! Repent!!Repent!!! I say for the Lake of Fire awaits you.
perfect liberal sensibilities? Struggling to be good Christian heck just Good People sensibilities and when one Man’s rights are taken none of us are Free!
Secular Human’s rule you unempathic/soulless monster
Back to the Pit and the Lake of Fire that awaits you!
The lady whose sign this was explained to me that municipalities that stop undocumented people and turn them over the ICE get to keep and auction their vehicles. I have heard of towns that do this to speeding, lawbreaking tourists but didn’t know it happened to undocumented people as well.
I don’t know much more about it, but I thought it was a great sign.
Give we know the Anasazi left their Cliff homes in America because of a drought and practiced cannibalism and we know the Aztecs came from North America to Mexico and also practiced cannibalism and cannibalism was not a very common practice by the North American Indian tribes.
My guess is the majority.
Great sign I thought this kind of thing only happened to drug dealers though if drug profits in whole or in part bought the car. ( not sure on the whole or in part thing)
Does the GOP want to establish that precedent for Law?
Because then the Government can seize Wallmart and McDonalds profits. Come on GOPers lets play chicken you take a ford pinto or other cheap immigrant car you stole that they worked for! (Respect for Private Property much?)
I’ll take a Wallmart Semi:)
Papers? You want papers? I got my Polish grandparents papers. They had them, they then became naturalized citizens. That makes me a second gen American.
I was never taught Polish. Or Slovak, my dad’s side. They were adamant about it. Big mistake from my perspective, but certainly they could have without resorting to forcing the schools to cover for them. And yes, in Cicero IL, in the 50′s, in high school, I could have taken Czech, or Polish or Italian or… but I didn’t.
Only a Democrat would think that increasing the labor pool during a time of high unemployment and diminishing wages makes sense.
And 700 years later denying entry to one of their descendants with foreign citizenship is still “100% motivated by anti-native American racism”? That’s a laugh. One of my ancestors was Portuguese: does that mean I should be able to waltz into their country without permission?
This shows how the American “melting pot” creates cookie cutter Americans, whereas Canada is a cultural mosaic. You can even watch Hockey Night in Canada in many languages, including PUNJABI.
True story: I have a friend, He is a Russian Jew He is also a concert violinist and an anti Obama conservative. I am not sure how deep his conservative roots run but I know he did not vote for him.
Here is a little more background. I think this is how he ended up Immigrating to the US. He immigrated from Russia to Israel, then Israel to Canada, When traveling outside the US it is much better to have a Canadian passport. Everybody like the polite Canadians. Then he immigrated to the US and became a citizen. I know he thought long and hard about doing this. Anyway he now resides in Florida. He might Latin, olive skinned and dark hair, maybe Arab?
He told me this story he had gone out for a run/jog.
As he was crossing the street he was stopped by law enforcement.
Because he was in running attire shorts etc. he did not have his papers with him.
The story ends with him being arrested for disorderly conduct ( You know the catch all offense) essentially for not being able to prove he is a US citizen or crossing the street while looking Latin? or maybe running while brown? I am sure it is a big offense in FLA.
I don’t know what his feeling are regarding the new AZ. law?
I don’t talk much politics with him as I do want to stay friends.
When I was a kid growing up in South Texas in the 40s and 50s, farmworkers used to come up from Mexico by the truckload for harvest season. Each of the farms had housing for the workers and whole families showed up, usually the same every year. It was a wonderful time for me – new kids to play with, sitting around campfires in the evening, someone playing a guitar and singing.
There was nothing secretive or bad about it. The families moved north through the summer and usually stopped by on their way home in the fall. If there was a problem, people looked out for each other.
And then it all changed, like so much did. We quit being human beings to each other. But I remember when it was different. When farming was labor intensive and people were valuable assets. We didn’t use so much gasoline then either. Maybe the world will change again.
I have a neighbor now who was a child in one of those migrant families and we share stories of those days. I write about the changes I’ve seen and how we can go from here in my blog at http://goodwordswan.wildflowerstew.com