Press Conference
Monday March 20, 2006 1:00 PM City Hall South Steps
A major development has risen in the massive grass roots campaign to defeat the anti immigrant, anti family, anti worker, anti union and anti Latino HR4437 Sensenbrenner Bill, the immigration reform bill approved in the House of Representatives on Dec. 16, 2005.
The Southern California “March 25th Coalition” which has obtained all the required permits will also briefly update the media on other developments, such as major endorsements and the cities and states and sectors mobilizing towards the 25th.
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<\/p><\/span><\/b> <\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/p> <\/span><\/span><\/p> <\/span><\/span><\/p> <\/p> <\/b><\/p> <\/b><\/p> <\/span><\/p> <\/span><\/p> <\/span><\/p> <\/span><\/p> <\/span><\/p> <\/span><\/p> <\/span><\/p> &<\/span><\/p> <\/span><\/p> <\/span><\/p> <\/span><\/p> <\/span><\/p> <\/span><\/p> <\/span><\/p> <\/span><\/p> <\/span><\/p> <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n","contact":"","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/html","summary":"Millions Nationally Will Hear Historic Call to March Against Sensenbrenner Bill and for the Legalization of 12 Million Undocumented. \r\nIn an Unprecedented Display of Unity, Spanish Language Morning Radio Show Personalities Have Come together in Defense of their people. \r\nMarch 25th Coalition Against Sensenbrenner Bill-HR4437 Will Coordinate Media Event at LA City Hall. \r\n","numcomment":1,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/2006\/03\/media_advisor1.htm","filesize":"8.1 kibibytes","article_url":"\/news\/2006\/03\/150771.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":197110,"heading":"Mr.","article":"Press Conference \r\nMonday March 20, 2006 1:00 PM City Hall South Steps \r\nA major development has risen in the massive grass roots campaign to defeat the anti immigrant, anti family, anti worker, anti union and anti Latino HR4437 Sensenbrenner Bill, the immigration reform bill approved in the House of Representatives on Dec. 16, 2005. \r\n\r\nThey will also call on the millions of their Latino listeners nationally to join them in this epic march whose main goal is to influence and pressure Congress to reject the right wing legislation that criminalizes immigrants and Americans alike, calls for an embarrassing wall to be built on the border and does not resolve at all the status of the immigrants living, working and studying in our nation. \r\n\r\nEnglish 101:\r\nAlien:\r\nIn law, an alien is a person who is not a citizen of the land where he or she is found. If an alien resides in the country, as opposed to being just a visitor, he or she may be called a "resident alien". The term illegal alien describes foreign nationals who have entered the country illegally. \r\nen.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alien_(law)\r\n\r\nCrime:\r\na violation of a local, state, or federal law.\r\nwww.nationaltcc.org\/tcc\/\r\n\r\nCriminal:\r\nA type of case in which the person is charged with a crime and may face penalties including fines, jail time, or imprisonment.\r\nwww.goldberg-law.com\/legal_vocabulary.htm\r\n\r\nStatus:\r\nthe relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society.....\r\nwordnet.princeton.edu\/perl\/webwn\r\n\r\nOK, end of English 101 -\r\n\r\nNow, yes - we are a nation of immigrants. We are also a nation of laws. We are expected to obey the laws or pay the legal consequences; that includes congressmen, presidents.. everyone. My children may be starving, but if I break the law to feed them, I will be jailed and\/or fined. I know that going into it. If I were to enter another nation illegally, I might not know their laws to the extent that I will know exactly what the consequences are going to be, but I can anticipate that there will be legal consequences if I am caught. It's a given. It's common sense; everybody has some of that, eh? =;o]\r\n\r\nImmigration into the United States, Mexico, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, or any other country on the face of this planet is not a god-given right, nor is it left to every individual to make up their own rules, ad hoc. It is a legal process to be followed, determined by the government of each individual country. There are laws, forms, waiting periods, medical exams, etc. Every country has these laws and they are there for many reasons, none of them racist, anti-immigrant, anti-family, anti-worker, anti-union or anti Latino. The various national immigration laws try to preserve a healthy balance in the community, labor market & social infrastructure.\r\n\r\nIt is human nature to rationalize one's situation, but the facts are this:\r\n\r\nAnyone who has entered the United States or over-stayed their visa limits without going through the proper, legal channels or process is here illegally in that they have broken immigration law.\r\n\r\nOne who breaks the law has, by definition (see above), commited a crime.\r\n\r\nOne who commits a crime is, (again - see above) by definition, a criminal.\r\n\r\nThe status of a foreign national that has entered the country outside of proper channels, process or law is "illegal alien".\r\n\r\nSo, foreign nationals crossing the border illegally have indeed ciminalized themselves. By obtaining false documents, sometimes by stealing legal citizens identities, these foreign nationals have further criminalized themselves. If they have unreported income, they have further criminalized themselves.\r\n\r\nThose that cross borders illegally and provide false documentation are not victims. They are not citizen of the nation they have entered illegally and have no "rights" but what the invaded nation is willing to grant them. They are criminals and should expect to be treated as such. \r\n\r\nMakes no difference what country they emmigrated from or immigrated to, there are laws and there are penelties, not rewards, for breaking them.\r\n\r\nPlay dumb, or play the pity card, ignorance of the law is no excuse and neither is "wanting a better life for my family". Either excuse leads to a conviction in a court of law.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n","author":"Hango M. Schwamm","parent_id":150771,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2007-04-20 21:51:25","modified":"2007-04-20 21:51:25","fileurl":""}]}