Protesters Rally Against Illegal Immigration Bill

Protesters Rally Against Illegal Immigration Bill SLIDESHOW: March And Rally Jay Levine Reporting Save It Email It Print It (CBS) CHICAGO Crowds marched through the city on Friday to rally against HR 4437 – The Border Protection, Antiterrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act of 2005. Supporters of the bill before Congress say it beefs up border protection. But thousands of people in Chicago's Latino community call the pending bill a blatant violation of rights. As CBS 2 Chief

Correspondent Jay Levine reports, the protesters -- of Polish, Irish, Latino, Chinese and many other nationalities -- gathered at Union Park, at Ashland Avenue and Lake Street, and marched to the Loop. From the air, it appeared to be an endless sea of demonstrators, flooding the streets to protest the recently-passed house bill, which would make it a crime to hire or even help undocumented immigrants. At the end of the day, organizers say it was more than half a million protesters. Police estimated the crowd at 300,000. “I'm definitely surprised to see this many people,” said protester Cesar Garza. “I expected a small amount of crowd, but this is… wow! I'm really surprised.”

Many of the protesters were immigrants who took the day off work to attend the rally. “This is a ridiculous bill,” said Polish immigrant Paulina Cdnok. “I don't understand how it got as far as it did, and they're trying to make this a law -- and then at this point it's a police state.” Other immigrants said their most important goal was to be part of the United States. “It’s important that they know that we make great contributions to this country,” Chicago resident Maricela Herrera said. “We’re not here to take any jobs or anything, we’re here to be able to give our contributions that make the United States what it is.”

Mexican immigrant Esperanza Martinez said, “We got a family to support. We got a job. We pay taxes. We want to be part of this country.”

Mexican immigrant David Martinez said, “I want to live here with my family.”

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And people in hell want ice water and the last I heard they weren't getting any. These people want to bring over the whole damn clan like it was still 1900 or the 1890's.

And yes the illgeals are criminals, they are here illegally aren't they? I don't want to hear spin about them not being criminals because they are criminals.

From the article:Earlier in the march, Pulido said, “I don’t care if there’s three million people out there, if they are illegal they do not have a voice in America.” Yeah that says it all!


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