This is really just part of the whole silent invasion. This comment says it all: " she laughed and said: "Why? They kick us out, we're coming back tomorrow."
Comparing them to the civil rights movement in the 1960's is bullshit. and this guy: "give them a legal channel to get here."
HELLO!!! There is a legal channel, and it isn't a pipe culvert under the border fence.
Really, I hope that congress makes a statement here when they come back. Mexicans have no more rights than anyone else so they should all follow the same rules and laws that people from countries on other continents have no choice but to follow.
U.S. Immigrants Rally by the Thousands
By GIOVANNA DELL'ORTO, Associated Press Writer 51 minutes ago
ATLANTA - Tens of thousands of immigrants spilled into the streets of Atlanta and other cities across the country Monday in a national day of action billed as a "campaign for immigrants' dignity."
In North Carolina and Dallas, immigrant groups called for an economic boycott to show their financial impact. In Pittsburgh and other cities, protesters gathered outside lawmakers' offices to make their voices heard as Congress considers immigration reforms. At the Mississippi Capitol, they sang "We Shall Overcome" in Spanish.
Atlanta police estimated at least 50,000 people, many in white T-shirts and waving American flags, joined a two-mile march from a largely immigrant neighborhood Monday morning.
The Rev. James Orange from the Georgia Coalition for the People's Agenda compared the march to civil rights demonstrations led by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and farm-labor organizer Caesar Chavez.
"People of the world, we have come to say this is our moment," Orange said.
The Georgia protesters had two targets: congress members weighing immigration reform and state legislation now awaiting Gov. Sonny Perdue's signature that would require adults seeking many state-administered benefits to prove they are in the U.S. legally.
Nineth Castillo, a 26-year-old waitress from Guatemala who joined the Atlanta march, said she has lived in the United States for 11 years "without a scrap of paper."
Asked whether she was afraid to parade her undocumented status in front of a massive police presence, she laughed and said: "Why? They kick us out, we're coming back tomorrow."
Hundreds of Latinos in North Carolina were called on to skip work or boycott all purchases Monday to demonstrate the financial impact of the Latino community on area businesses.
"We're hoping that employers stop to consider what this is all about," organizer Adriana Galvez said. "That if you need people here to do the work, to buy, then give them a legal channel to get here."
Cruz Luna, his wife and their four children all wore T-shirts reading "God Bless America" at a demonstration in Pensacola, Fla. The two oldest children — ages 8 and 9 — were born in Mexico and are in the U.S. illegally; their younger siblings, ages 4 and 8 months are U.S. citizens.
"We want to send a strong message today, a message that we want the laws to be fair," Luna said.
At a demonstration in Phoenix, Miguel Penate, a fast-food restaurant manager who moved from
El Salvador six years ago, said being in the country illegally was his only option.
"There's no way to come legally over here," said Penate, 25. "If there was, do you think people would like to be in the desert risking their lives?"
Several thousand people demonstrated in Philadelphia, including Inocente Gonzalez, 19, an illegal immigrant from Oaxaca, Mexico, who in high school now and dreams of becoming a doctor.
"I want to stay here to continue with my studies," Gonzalez said, wearing a sombrero and Mexican flag. "We have to stay here because this country needs us."
In Pittsburgh, a small group of mostly Hispanic and African immigrants marched to U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter (news, bio, voting record)'s office.
"This country was built by immigrants, Pittsburgh in particular," said Yinka Aganga Williams, 54, who came from Nigeria six years ago. "This is supposed to be a land of freedom, that's why they came."
In the Midwest, an estimated 3,000 people demonstrated in Garden City, Kan., a farming community in the southwest corner of the state that counts fewer than 30,000 residents. Several hundred turned out in South Bend, Ind., and in Lexington, Ky., where they waved signs that read: "We were all immigrants once," and "We are not terrorists."
The demonstrations were mostly peaceful, though in Portland, Maine, one demonstrator clashed with a small group of counter-demonstrators. One of three people carrying signs saying illegal immigrants have no rights was hit in the head and taken away by ambulance.
An event in Harrisburg, Pa., drew a handful of hecklers.
"Go to jail!" shouted William Hazzard, 58, a retired school custodian from Harrisburg. "I'm from Germany and I had to give up my rights as a German citizen. I had to speak English."
Raymond Marks, 47, an apartment complex service manager, held an upside-down American flag as a sign of distress.
"These people are expecting me to give them rights they don't deserve," he said.
Monday's demonstrations followed a weekend of rallies in 10 states that drew up to 500,000 people in Dallas, 50,000 in San Diego, and 20,000 in Salt Lake City. Dozens of rallies and student walkouts, many organized by Spanish-language radio DJ's, have been held in cities from Los Angeles to Chicago to New York over the past two weeks.
Protesters have been urging Congress, whose immigration reform efforts stalled last week, to help the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants settle here legally.
Xavier Suarez, 46, an Ecuadorean immigrant with U.S. citizenship, said others deserve the same right to live and work in America, pay taxes and contribute to society,
"America is a country of dreams. These people have dreams," said Suarez, who demonstrated in Lake Worth, Fla. "They have family back home in their countries and they've been separated for many years. It's only fair that they are allowed to be together again here, and to help keep this country growing."
