The LA Times reports:
Immigrant rights rallies staged Sunday to commemorate the anniversary of last year's massive Los Angeles march and to call for reform legislation were marked by low turnout and a rowdy counterdemonstration denouncing illegal immigration.
Nearly 5,000 immigrants and their supporters gathered at the Los Angeles Sports Arena for an event dubbed Justice for Our Families, featuring mariachi music and speeches by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and other politicians.
Carrying American flags and waving banners that read, "We are America," the participants signed pre-written letters to Congress calling for legalization of the nation's estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants and an end to deportations and raids. Organizers said they received about 6,000 signed letters.
Although the crowds fell far short of the 10,000 expected, participants were hopeful that this would be the year for immigration reform.
What a surprise. Last year I predicted that One March Don't Make No Movement, and here we stand one year later pretty much in the same place. There is no forward organization to take up the cause of illegal immigrants, and so this low turnout is to be expected. When the cause of citizenship takes a backseat to idle threats of racism, you can expect illegal workers to get screwed. Those whose political desire last year was to push the Mojado cause at the top of their lungs find themselves winded now.
There is but one solution to illegal immigration and that is to end it and start fresh. That means putting citizenship first. Then and only then will the rule of law and ethical politics follow. We in the Old School will not have our civil rights diluted, and we will not tolerate slavery. These are the inevitable consequences of having millions of residents in America who are not citizens and must exist in a netherworld inside of bleeding hearts but outside of the law.
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