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Occupy LA to March & Rally for Immigrant Rights Today

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Protesting Arizona's SB 1070 in May 2010 (Photo by Malingering via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr)

Occupy L.A. activists will "Occupy ICE" today to protest the persecution of immigrant families, reminding the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Department of Homeland Security that immigrant workers are part of the 99%.

About 2,000 workers, community members and activists - including those of Good Jobs L.A. - will meet at La Placita Olvera and march to the downtown L.A. federal building at 11:30am for a 12pm rally. Protesters are planning to set up camp in front of the building.

Activists claim that ICE agents have assumed 1% roles, "attacking workers like janitors who have sacrificed and struggled in efforts to turn poverty level jobs into good jobs," according to a Good Jobs L.A. release. Mike Garcia, President of SEIU United Service Workers West, California’s largest union of property service workers, said, "The 1% profits from fear. Fear of not being able to find a job. The fear of losing your house that you have worked hard for. And, the fear that immigrant workers feel that they may be separated from their children. But, we refuse to be afraid. We are going to fight back."

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  • Immigration laws are governed and enforced by the federal government. These immigration laws also determine the citizenship status of an individual. This includes legal rights, duties and obligations of aliens while visiting or living in the United States.

  • Dave Francis

    US GOVERNMENT AGENCIES RUN BY RADICAL
    LIBERAL PROGRESSIVES.

     

    There is only one cure for the corruption
    in Washington and that is joining the TEA PARTY. Thousands of fraudulent
    programs will be exposed and billions of dollars will be saved. This confronts
    the rot that has entered the Democratic and the Republican parties, and the
    astronomical deficit that America is suffering from. Read some undisclosed
    evidence at Judicial Watch, a legal non-profit, and the opposite to the
    Communist backed ACLU; a panderer to the illegal alien invaders. In addition, NumbersUSA
    gives you in depth analysis of costs to taxpayers and insider news from
    Congress. Lastly, the controversial website of “American Patrol” gives
    you one-click Bridging editions to the nationwide media, where the truth
    prevails.

    Newt Gingrich, Presidential candidate has been found to be weak on illegal
    immigration. On NumbersUSA website he has a grade of (D-). Former
    speaker Gingrich is not a true TEA PARTY Leader. While his counterpart Mitt
    Romney has already opened the Pandora's Box on at his the National Hispanic
    Assembly conference, Romney said without mentioning Gingrich name, that
    finally, we must stop providing the incentives that encourage illegal
    immigration. As governor, I vetoed legislation that would have provided
    in-state tuition rates to illegal immigrants. Romney also emphasis of by
    completing the construction of a high-tech fence," Perhaps he has analyzed
    the weakness of the current single layer fence and not the double layer
    fence designed by Rep. Duncan Hunter in the President George Bush era. This was
    a corridor of information to inform the audience, that such things
    as tuition for illegal aliens, is against federal law and bypasses U.S.
    citizens who should always come first. This is similar situation when Mayors
    and other elected official say they are going to suppress assisting ICE, with
    the removal of every illegal alien under such laws as ‘Secure Communities’ or
    State recognized ‘E-Verify.’

     

    The flood of illegal workers almost
    certainly constitutes an invasion. The TEA PARTY will table any form of Amnesty
    or Immigration Reform and will apply the statutes in the 1986 Simpson/Mazzoli
    with strict enforcement according to the bill. Any Sanctuary City or State
    ordinances designed to cater to illegal aliens, will lose federal funding and
    expect ICE sweeps in the future. E-Verify and "Secure Communities"
    will no longer be a voluntary measure, but applied as a mandate to every state.
    The TEA PARTY will amend the 14th Amendment, so 300.000 children of illegal
    aliens annually can no longer obtain a foothold in America, to ransack the people's
    welfare programs and public assistance.

     

    1.          
    Remember illegal aliens do vote in federal elections, and we
    all need to contact our politicians, to either issue an official to scrutinize
    voter rolls, or specifically absentee ballots.

              
     

           
     

    2.          
    ISSUE a mandatory federal ID card, for all Americans, for
    voting at a minimal fee for the low income. This will end the fraudulent
    exposure of groups as Acorn and multiple registrations from the same people.

         

                  3.       Make
    illegal entry into the United States, punishable as a felony, not a civil
    offense.

     

                 
    4.       Build the real 2006 Double border Fence.

     

                  5.      The TEA
    PARTY will not tolerate illegal immigration or any form of amnesty, including
    Sanctuary cities, dream acts or covert enactments by disguising Immigration
    Reform.

     

    6.        The
    TEA PARTY will support Arizona, Alabama, Georgia and other states against any
    retribution by the Democratic or Republican establishment.

         
     

                   7.
           Stand with Arizona (the original voice of
    commonsense to halt illegal alien invaders; hold firm with Sheriff Joe Arpaio a
    strong advocate against the US government to control unfettered illegal
    immigration and the $113 Billion dollar cost of unfunded mandates for states.)
    Stan with Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, Utah, and Indiana of the
    bludgeoning attacks by the Department of IN-Justice to curtail their policing
    laws, which have been enacted to stop the hemorrhaging of state treasuries in
    support of 20 million illegal aliens settled countrywide. IMPEACH LIBERAL ERIC HOLDER! Wish the Supreme Court could recommend
    prosecution for Eric Holder for his ‘Fast and Furious’ travesty. This obscure
    degenerate is just out to crush the US Constitution under his boots, and using
    the Obama administration to rip away citizens and—LEGAL IMMIGRANTS—civil rights
    and pander to the leeches who come over here with stolen identities, stealing
    American jobs and low income livelihoods. The federal government absolutely
    refuses to seal the great wide holes, along the border. Now the tyrants are
    trying to steal the Internet from under us. They are going to investigate our
    IP address, so they can censor our free speech and inhibit our rights according
    to the founding fathers.   

     

    Bloggers
    comments like me are already being deleted, by the national Liberal Press and
    E-media. If they don’t like what you have to say, you are ‘Persona Non Gratis’.
    I have a whole list of Liberal rags that have banned my writings.

     

    There is nothing wrong with Lama Smiths
    E-Verify “the Legal Workforce Act."  At the very least, it is a
    step in the right direction. Even if E-Verify has some flaws and some illegal
    aliens are able to obtain employment, it won't last very long. Those hired
    illegally will be caught eventually when the irregularities are corrected with
    the electronic verification program. It's better to have something as a
    deterrent, than to have nothing at all. E-Verify and to some extent
    ‘Secure Communities’ is an official order to fingerprint of all individuals who
    pass through booking halls of police precincts. 
    This is all we have at this present time, to slow and finally end the
    hiring of illegal workers. E-Verify will place the burden firmly on every
    United States business, to check every new hire or be sanctioned, fined or even
    be imprisoned.

     

     Of course the usual radical
    voices are raised, as critics opposing this Historical Immigration Bill, H.R.
    2885 are searching for any loophole to drag it down. They are using what
    inflammatory rhetoric or lies they can muster against the passage of E-Verify
    “the Legal Workforce Act." First they contest it that legal American
    workers could be turned away in being hired. So that person just addresses
    their grievances by going to their local Social security office; illegal aliens
    will stay well clear of this agency. None of the media will inform their
    readership of this? Learn more information at NumbersUSA.
    Other websites that will deliver the facts about the
    criminal element, with wide ranging access to the E-media is American
    Patrol.  We can all stand with our fellow jobless countryman by
    Calling House and Senate Leadership NOW Call the Capitol Switchboard at
    202-224-3121.

     

    Join a local TEA PARTY is end illegal
    immigration, the ruthless spread of the Liberal ‘Political Correctness’ agenda;
    (The so-called ‘Political Correctness’ is going to cause carnage on our borders
    or even a grander scale) restrict the giant growth of central government and
    return the power to sovereign states; dispatch the antiquated tax code for a
    flat tax, and equal for all, with no special privileges for the wealthy or
    giant corporations; listen to Donald Trump and tax goods from China, as they
    are taxing our products.

    Shocking News from American Patrol.
    Dot.com

    Madison Ruppert -- The Intel
    Hub  

    ARE
    THEY TRYING TO SNEAK THIS LAW THROUGH…?
    Congress could vote to change the
    Internet forever shortly  
    Tomorrow the House Judiciary Committee is going to vote on H.R.3261, the Stop
    Online Privacy Act, or SOPA for short. As I have previously outlined, this
    legislation would destroy the internet as we know it and severely impinge on
    free speech and the spread of information. -- If this passes committee, which
    all indications say it likely will, it could be voted on by the whole of the
    House of Representatives.

     

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    TAXPAYING AMERICAN.

  • Schmilsson

    Proof that Occupy has completely lost focus

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