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dulouz
Joined: 04 Feb 2003
Location: Uranus
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 Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2006 2:03 am Post subject: USA Illegal Immigration Power Surge Tanking |
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| Pretty remarkable development. Looks like Catholic quilt works on Hispanic immigrants "Thou Shalt Not Lie". "Thou Shalt Not Steal". God is on the side of the secure border crowd. |
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AbbeFaria
Joined: 17 May 2005
Location: Gangnam
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| Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2006 3:43 am Post subject: |
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I'm sorry, I'm lost. Is there supposed to be some kind of article along with this that you forgot to post or something to make sense of the thread title and the statement? And you meant guilt, not quilt, right? Because otherwise I'm really lost. 
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TheRecruiter
Joined: 24 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 5:15 am Post subject: |
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dulouz
Joined: 04 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 5:24 am Post subject: |
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Sep 9, 2006 6:00 pm US/Pacific
Low Turnout At LA Illegal Immigrant Rally
(AP) LOS ANGELES Few people turned out today for a rally in Los Angeles demanding amnesty for eleven million illegal immigrants.
It's the latest sign of pro-immigrant groups' struggles to regain momentum after hundreds of thousands marched through the spring.
Local bands jammed to rock music, vendors offered chicken tacos and a dozens of activists set up information booths in a field in downtown Los Angeles.
But by 5:30 p-m, more than an hour after the rally started, only two-hundred people had shown up. The majority of them were organizers and journalists. Organizers had expected about 5,000 participants.
Organizers downplayed the low turnout, saying more could appear later and the quantity of people wasn't important to make their point.
(� 2006 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed
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AbbeFaria
Joined: 17 May 2005
Location: Gangnam
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| Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 5:51 am Post subject: |
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hahaha
that's funny
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ChuckECheese
Joined: 20 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 7:21 am Post subject: |
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AbbeFaria.....
Dang dude or dudatte, change your avatar. You're hurting my eyes and giving me a headache........ |
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dulouz
Joined: 04 Feb 2003
Location: Uranus
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| Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 7:28 am Post subject: |
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| Yea, its a really good optical illusion. |
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happeningthang
Joined: 26 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 8:04 am Post subject: |
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| Not usually prone to agreeing with Dulous, but it's an awesome avatar. |
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AbbeFaria
Joined: 17 May 2005
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| Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 8:36 am Post subject: |
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AbbeFaria.....
Dang dude or dudatte, change your avatar. You're hurting my eyes and giving me a headache........ |
If you must, stare at the cheeks or the bridge of her nose. It gets easier after awhile. I'll leave it until I find something better.
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dulouz
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| Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 6:15 am Post subject: |
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LAKEPORT, Calif. � The pear growers here in Lake County waited decades for a crop of shapely fruit like the one that adorned their orchards last month.
Max Whittaker for The New York Times
Pears rotted on the ground of Nick Ivicevich�s orchard. He lost about 1.8 million pounds of them.
�I felt like I went to heaven,� said Nick Ivicevich, recalling the perfection of his most abundant crop in 45 years of tending trees.
Now harvest time has passed and tons of pears have ripened to mush on their branches, while the ground of Mr. Ivicevich�s orchard reeks with rotting fruit. He and other growers in Lake County, about 90 miles north of San Francisco, could not find enough pickers.
Stepped-up border enforcement kept many illegal Mexican migrant workers out of California this year, farmers and labor contractors said, putting new strains on the state�s shrinking seasonal farm labor force.
Labor shortages have also been reported by apple growers in Washington and upstate New York. Growers have gone from frustrated to furious with Congress, which has all but given up on passing legislation this year to create an agricultural guest-worker program.
Last week, 300 growers representing every major agricultural state rallied on the front lawn of the Capitol carrying baskets of fruit to express their ire.
This year�s shortages are compounding a flight from the fields by Mexican workers already in the United States. As it has become harder to get into this country, many illegal immigrants have been reluctant to return to Mexico in the off-season. Remaining here year-round, they have gravitated toward more stable jobs.
�When you�re having to pay housing costs, it�s very difficult to survive and wait for the next agricultural season to come around,� said Jack King, head of national affairs for the California Farm Bureau Federation.
California farms employ at least 450,000 people at the peak of the harvest, with farm workers progressing from one crop to the next, stringing together as much as seven months of work. Growers estimate the state fell short this harvest season by 70,000 workers. Joe Bautista, a labor contractor from Stockton who brings crews to Lake County, said about one-third of his regular workers stayed home in Mexico this year, while others were caught by the Border Patrol trying to enter the United States.
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AbbeFaria
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| Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 3:08 pm Post subject: |
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LAKEPORT, Calif. � The pear growers here in Lake County waited decades for a crop of shapely fruit like the one that adorned their orchards last month.
Max Whittaker for The New York Times
Pears rotted on the ground of Nick Ivicevich�s orchard. He lost about 1.8 million pounds of them.
�I felt like I went to heaven,� said Nick Ivicevich, recalling the perfection of his most abundant crop in 45 years of tending trees.
Now harvest time has passed and tons of pears have ripened to mush on their branches, while the ground of Mr. Ivicevich�s orchard reeks with rotting fruit. He and other growers in Lake County, about 90 miles north of San Francisco, could not find enough pickers.
Stepped-up border enforcement kept many illegal Mexican migrant workers out of California this year, farmers and labor contractors said, putting new strains on the state�s shrinking seasonal farm labor force.
Labor shortages have also been reported by apple growers in Washington and upstate New York. Growers have gone from frustrated to furious with Congress, which has all but given up on passing legislation this year to create an agricultural guest-worker program.
Last week, 300 growers representing every major agricultural state rallied on the front lawn of the Capitol carrying baskets of fruit to express their ire.
This year�s shortages are compounding a flight from the fields by Mexican workers already in the United States. As it has become harder to get into this country, many illegal immigrants have been reluctant to return to Mexico in the off-season. Remaining here year-round, they have gravitated toward more stable jobs.
�When you�re having to pay housing costs, it�s very difficult to survive and wait for the next agricultural season to come around,� said Jack King, head of national affairs for the California Farm Bureau Federation.
California farms employ at least 450,000 people at the peak of the harvest, with farm workers progressing from one crop to the next, stringing together as much as seven months of work. Growers estimate the state fell short this harvest season by 70,000 workers. Joe Bautista, a labor contractor from Stockton who brings crews to Lake County, said about one-third of his regular workers stayed home in Mexico this year, while others were caught by the Border Patrol trying to enter the United States.
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He says that like it's a bad thing.
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dulouz
Joined: 04 Feb 2003
Location: Uranus
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Mexico opposed to U.S. border fence Thu Sep 28, 10:40 PM ET
MEXICO CITY - Mexico warned Thursday that the U.S. proposal to build miles of border fence will damage relations between the two countries.
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The Foreign Relations Department said it was "deeply worried" about the proposal, which is working its way through the Senate, adding it will "increase tension in border communities."
"These measures will harm the bilateral relationship. They are against the spirit of co-operation that is needed to guarantee security on the common border," the department said in a statement.
The House of Representatives and Senate are maneuvering to speed construction of a 700-mile fence along the United States' southern border aimed at keeping migrants and criminals from entering the country illegally.
A House-Senate homeland security funding bill containing $1.2 billion to begin building the fence could be passed and sent to President Bush before lawmakers depart Washington this weekend.
Mexico's Foreign Relations Department said that only a comprehensive immigration reform would stop millions of Mexicans sneaking across its northern desert and swimming over the Rio Grande into the United States.
"A partial measure that is exclusively focused on security does not deal with reality and represents a political answer rather than a viable solution," it said in the statement.
President Vicente Fox has rallied against the wall, calling it "shameful" and comparing it to the Berlin Wall, which divided Germany.
President-elect Felipe Calderon, who takes over from Fox on Dec.1, has also spoken out against the measure.
There are an estimated 11 million Mexicans in the United States, about half of whom are illegal. Last year, Mexican migrants sent home more than $20 billion in remittances, providing Mexico with its second biggest source of foreign income after oil.
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dulouz
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Location: Uranus
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STUDENTS WITH A BIG YELLOW SIGN JUST CAME ONTO THE STAGE. The sign says, "There are no illegals." Students rise en masse from the audience and rush the stage. The Minuteman and the students engaged in a tug of war with the banner. More people rush the stage, prompting a fist-fight. One female student is kicked in the head. A guy in a pony tail (definitely not a student) rushes the stage and fights with students (several witnesses saw him kick a student) and then banded together with the Minuteman to shout the pledge of allegiance as the rumble spun out of hand, "One nation! Under God! Indivisible!"
There was at least two minutes of chaos between students, other students and the Minutemen. Bwog took cover.
security Update: 9:01 pm: Security comes out, now the curtain is down. Students are still chanting, now everyone's filing out.
Update: 9:15 pm: Students outside shouting, "They say, 'get bent,' we say, 'let's fight!'"
Update: 9:22 pm: A Bwog correspondent calls in a tip. A student defending the Minuteman right outside the gates on 115th was encircled by a group of protesters after a heated personal fight with just one of the protesters. The protesters then shouted, "Racist, go home!" Security showed up, and they started breaking up. Student last seen laughing on phone with friends. A mosh pit of triumphal students and community members dance and chant, "Asian, Black, Brown and White, we smashed the Minutemen tonight!"
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