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March 25th, 2006

Our house is perched upon this giant oak

VOA News ~ By Mike O’Sullivan
Thousands Protest US Immigration Proposal
The bill is not yet law and many Hispanics, union leaders and church officials have spoken against it. The legislation would impose new penalties on employers who hire illegal immigrants and erect fences along one-third of the U.S.-Mexico border.
Police say 20,000 people clogged the streets of downtown Phoenix. Several thousand students walked out of schools to rally in Los Angeles. The demonstrations were mostly peaceful, but a fight broke out between black and Hispanic students at one Los Angeles high school.
One Hispanic student criticized a provision that says those who help illegal immigrants would commit a felony themselves.
“This country was based on immigration, and they’re trying to keep us out,” said the student. “If you walk with an immigrant, you’re going to get arrested. What is that? That is not America.”
When an oak tree is felled the whole forest echoes with it, while a hundred acorns are planted silently by some unknown breeze. Thomas Carlyle

Posted in Red-State America | By Willie Buck Merle

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