Reply #170: It's solidarity. [View All]

[countryjake]

Mount Vernon students protest immigration proposal
http://www.king5.com/topstories/stories/NW_033106WABstudentwalkoutEL.7ccaa3f8.html

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Some 200 students rallied at the Skagit County Courthouse Friday to protest legislation that would make illegal immigration a felony.

The issue is now being argued in Congress. If the legislation is passed, the protestors say many of their friends and families would be criminalized because of their search for a better life.

"It's going to affect all our families, it’s going to affect all of the people that we love,” one protestor said.

"We aren't skipping; we're doing this for our parents because we don't want them to go back to Mexico or wherever they were from,” said a student named Antonio.


NO TO HR4437
http://www.skagitvalleyherald.com/index.html

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Students from Mount Vernon High, La Venture and Mount Baker middle schools and Western Washington University gathered Friday morning at the courthouse to protest proposed immigration reform. Across the nation, thousands of students walked out of school in similar protest.

“My family has been here for 15 years, are they now going to say, ‘thanks for your hard work, you can leave now?’”

The reform in question would make it a felony to assist illegal immigrants, even if for humanitarian reasons.




These demonstrators are afraid that House bill, which is already halfway there to becoming law in this country, might pass thru the Senate, also. The protests are in opposition to Sensenbrenner's HR 4437, a move by the conservative right-wing that would criminalize 10 million people in this country, and those who love and care about them. The flags are symbols of solidarity with their friends and loved ones.