Three people show up at anti-immigration rally, say others "must have got the wrong address."

[Fred Sanders]

http://thinkprogress.org/immigration/2014/07/20/3461993/mcallen-border-rally-photos/

MCALLEN, TX — At least 60 advocates braved sauna-like conditions near the Texas border on Saturday to rally across the street from the McAllen Border Patrol Station, showing their support for the influx of unaccompanied Latin American children being apprehended there.

About 57,000 children, mostly from Central America, have been detained this fiscal year by Border Patrol agents, many in Texas’s Rio Grand Valley towns, like McAllen. Studies show that — at least since 2009 — children have been leaving the Central American countries of Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala in droves because of increasing violence and grinding poverty, taking dangerous journeys to the U.S. to seek refuge.

The rally, which was also an interfaith prayer vigil, was meant to counter hundreds of planned “anti-amnesty” protests across the country over the Obama administration’s handling of the surge. Only three people showed up nearby as part of the national anti-immigrant protests.

They said they expected others to arrive, but also speculated they may have “gotten the wrong address.”

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Must have got the wrong idea about the compassion of real Americans, more like it, and forgot Fox News is not news.

[merrily]

1. Jon Lovitz called. He says, "Wrong address. That's the ticket!"

[maced666]

2. I read they have been showing up 'in full force' elsewhere.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025266616

[Rozlee]

15. In places where the heat and humidity isn't so high?

Teabaggers don't seem to hold up very well when it rains or under any kind of inclement weather for too long. They get those Victorian vapors or something.

[unapatriciated]

3. There were about 40-50 at Sacramento

Two were my sister and brother-in-law



It took awhile before the protestors realized that my brother-in-law was not one of them. He stood there silently holding three different signs supporting the children. Both he and my sister took a lot of verbal abuse, but stood their ground.

[Fred Sanders]

5. Verbal abuse by illiterate people is not abuse so much as an expression of stupid.

[dbackjon]

13. Awesome!

[Enthusiast]

4. Kicked and recommended!

[nightscanner59]

6. ultimate irony:

"What you do to the least of my brethren, you do unto me" -- Jesus.

[DesertDiamond]

7. What? Did THOUSANDS get it wrong and only three got it right???

[vlakitti]

8. Really really great thread!

Thanks.

[SomethingFishy]

9. Your OP says 3, the article says 60 but the real point of the article if people bother

to click the link is the incredible level of support for the REFUGEES. Lots of great people with great signs at the link.

[Gormy Cuss]

10. No, it says there were 60 advocates for the kids and only three anti protesters.

(see the last line of the third paragraph in the OP.)
I had to read it twice myself.

[SomethingFishy]

11. Thanks... yeah my bad...

Article still good though!

[sakabatou]

12. HA!

[bearssoapbox]

14. Here's an idea.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

19. Awesome sign...

and kudos to the person holding it.

[cynzke]

17. There they go again.....

confusing longitude with latitude!

[packman]

18. The Morans couldn't read a map

or one of those guys from the 6 million man march on Washington gave him the directions.