Who’s Behind the Immigration Rallies?
Ben Johnson has the answers:
BIG CORPORATIONS AND THE FAR-LEFT HAVE ONE THING IN COMMON: both like to employ cheap illegal immigrants to do their heavy lifting.
The leftist media have tried to portray this weekend’s massive protests against House measures to curtail illegalimmigration as the uprising of “The Other Americaâ€Â: forgotten, humble, hidden Hispanic members of the working poor simply demanding their “rights.†As events spanned from California to Detroit, Phoenix to Washington, D.C., the media kept up its anti-enforcement drumbeat. Although some have credited Latino DJs for the 500,000-strong illegal immigrant turnout in Los Angeles alone – and some credit is deserved – the real legwork was done by a more eclectic group of organizations: leftist labor unions, George Soros-funded agitators, Open Borders lobbyists, Roman Catholic clergy, and teachers unions.
In other words, the usual suspects.
Los Angeles predictably had the largest turnout – and the most disruptive. Half-a-million people crowded the streets demanding the “right†to flaunt this nation’s immigration laws, and underage students ran onto a California freeway, risking their lives and shutting down interstate traffic.
Andres Jiminez, director of the University of California’s California Policy Research Center, told the media, “It’s not only Latinos who are marching in the streets, its unions too: firefighters, farm workers and Hispanic students who had thought of U.S. law as protecting them and are now starting to see it as a threat to their future.â€Â
He was right about this much: Latino organizations did not act alone. The media has failed to report that organized labor directed the illegals and minors. The L.A. Times revealed the rally’s “security†was handled by a union identified only as “Local 1877.†That would be local 1877 of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the far-Left union founded by New Left radical Andrew Stern, which called for the withdrawal of all U.S. troops from Iraq in June 2004 and worked in concert with Ted Kennedy to roll back anti-terrorist Homeland Security measures. According to the L.A. Times, the SEIU’s goons kindly helped “herd marchers along the route.†That was not the extent of SEIU’s help, though. The union also “coordinated the more than 100 buses that dropped off marchers from throughout California, Las Vegas and a few Southwestern cities.â€Â
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March 29th, 2006 at 11:19 am
Pro-illegal immigrant rally
I haven’t been agreeing with Michelle Malkin 100% this past week, but I have to say that when I saw this posted on her site, my blood began to boil. Via Michelle Malkin: 03/28 : Student protest Whittier area students from Pioneer, California and Whitt…
March 29th, 2006 at 11:20 am
Does anyone find it odd that unions would be involved? I mean, these illegal aliens are taking their jobs.
March 29th, 2006 at 2:21 pm
[...] ADDED: Another batch of bloggers • Squiggler has another roundup • The Rolling Barrage: America the Subordinate? • Smithism.com: Vile and Disgusting • California Conservative and RedState look at who was behind the protests • A journal at RedState: McCain-Kennedy: A Good Bill, Or, In Which I Don My Asbestos Shorts • Gateway Pundit: Border Polling (and you know what I think about polls) • Wall Street Cafe: This disturbing image comes from yet another student walkout protest in Whittier, CA, where its obvious where the student’s loyalties lie. • Prophetic Musings: OK, that’s enough • Yeah, Vinnie, keep on dreaming • Publius Rendezvous steals Sam’s line, only without the accent marks: Viva la Revolucion? • Gina Cobb: Is This What the Star Spangled Banner Means to Illegals? • Ogre asks the question: How Do You Deport 11 million? • Sweet Spirits of Ammonia: Reaping What The Liberals Have Sown (hey, it’s not just the Liberals) • B. Preston at JunkYardBlog calls it “Immigration Protest Photo of the Year” [...]
March 29th, 2006 at 8:17 pm
I’m thinking it is more of a ratings booster than anything. They are young. The sun is shining …
April 11th, 2006 at 3:01 am
stinky beauregaurd eats peanuts!