Thursday, April 27, 2006

KRT Wire | 04/27/2006 | California lawmakers support `Great American Boycott'
Reason #1422 I'm not sad I left California.

BY STEVEN HARMON
Knight Ridder Newspapers

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Some Democratic state lawmakers are planning to walk off the job Monday - just as millions of others around the country are expected to - in support of immigrants' rights.

The Democratic-controlled Senate, on a party-line vote, approved a resolution supporting the May 1 "Great American Boycott 2006," which supporters say will serve as a warning to Congress to avoid punitive immigration reform.

Organizers believe the boycott, in which large numbers of students also are expected to participate, will show just how vital immigrants are to America's major cities and the nation's economy.

"These immigrants are fighting to embrace this nation," said Sen. Richard Alarcon, D-Van Nuys. "What a good time this is when people can express their anger, their frustration, desires, hopes and dreams, all for the purpose of becoming American. That's a good thing."

Republicans voted unanimously against the resolution, saying it encourages lawlessness.


How about voting aagainst it simply because it's insane?

But, Sen. Gloria Romero, D-Los Angeles, who authored the resolution, said the boycott will be part of history that will one day be recounted in classrooms across the country.

"It's one day out of 365, out of their lives," she said, "for immigrants to peacefully tell the country that we matter, we want justice."


Uh, if someone is here illegally, wouldn't justice be deportation?

I'm so confused.

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