Blacks Call for Real Immigration Reform Now!

[Highwayman]

©2005 Brotherhood Organization of A New Destiny

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March 31, 2006

Blacks Call for Real Immigration Reform Now!

Rev. Peterson Blasts L.A. Mayor for Condoning Illegal Immigration

LOS ANGELES – This week Hispanics throughout Southern California protested against federal legislation (HR 4437) to reform U.S. immigration policies and clamp down on illegal aliens. An estimated 500,000 Hispanics rallied in downtown Los Angeles. More than 40,000 students walked out of classrooms joined by school administrators and teachers. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa spoke at the largest rally and endorsed the protest. This has riled Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, Founder and President of BOND, who today blasted the mayor for encouraging illegal immigration and for being soft on lawbreakers.

Rev. Peterson said, “Mayor Villaraigosa’s handling of this week’s march was disgraceful. Instead of chastising students for breaking the law he chose to endorse lawbreaking.”

Mayor Villaraigosa told the protestors, “There are no illegals here today. The only thing that would be illegal is a law that would demonize and criminalize 11 million people. We come together to say that we are workers, not criminals.”

Rev. Peterson added, “We need real immigration reform now! A guest worker program is tantamount to amnesty. Illegal immigration is devastating the black community. Illegal aliens undercut contractors, lowering wages and forcing many blacks to abandon their trades. We’re demanding that Mayor Villaraigosa enforce the law.”

Contact Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and demand that he enforce the law and stop condoning illegal immigration. Telephone: 213-978-0600, Fax: 213-978-0750, or E-mail: mayor@lacity.org

http://www.bondinfo.org/media/press/06/pr_03-31-06.htm

Who is Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson?

[Highwayman]

(CBS) LOS ANGELES Several black activists plan to join members of the Minutemen Project to protest illegal immigration, which organizer Ted Hayes touted as the "biggest threat to blacks in America since slavery."

The protest, organized by Hayes's Crispus Attucks Brigade and the American Black Citizens Opposed to Illegal Immigration Invasion, is scheduled to start at 1 p.m.

Hayes, a homeless activist, alleged that most homeless people in Los Angeles are black and illegal immigration compounds the problem since blacks refuse to accept the "slave wages" that many illegal immigrants accept......

The whole story.... http://cbs2.com/topstories/local_story_113105613.html

"I've been down to the border with them (the Minutemen). They're not racist," Hayes said. "They don't care what color you are."

[TexKan]

Would be interesting to know how that protest went. I know down here there is no love lost tween black and hispanics.......... but his is right....... this country was built on the backs of slaves........... not immigrants........ don't know of many hispanics or any other race that picked cotton or worked for a master......... I'm surprised the blacks have supported them at all. Course the blacks that do support them don't show much support unless there is a camera around and unless there ain't no other black thing goin. It sure aint "whole hearted" support................

[lurker]

It wasn't too many years ago that the Republic of Mexico had more Negro slaves than Spaniards on its soil.... incidentally, Mexico was the first country to outlaw discrimination against the Negros.