Reaction in Houston In Houston, meanwhile, immigrant advocates were wondering what the huge turnout in Dallas meant for them. Karla Aguilar, a staffer at the Central American Resource Center, said she was encouraged by the Dallas event. "It fills my heart with hope and I pray that the actions in Houston will be as peaceful and positive as the ones in Dallas were," said Aguilar, an organizer with the April 10 Coalition, which has been promoting the event. Julita Rincon, president of the University of Houston's Young Immigrants for a Better Future, heard about the Dallas turnout via text message. "It's pretty amazing," said Rincon, who considers Dallas to be "a very dormant city." "Bringing out 500,000 people, it says a lot," said Rincon, whose group is using text messages and the social Web site MySpace to spread the word about today's events in Houston. Students, housewives, day laborers and union organizers planned to take part in the Houston protests and were streaming in from Galveston, Angleton, Baytown and other cities, said Angela Mejia, an organizer with the local chapter of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. "They're coming in from all over," Mejia said. "They want to be part of history. They want to be able to say, 'I fought for this because it was the right thing to do.' " The Houston march will start at Guadalupe Plaza — next to Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church on Navigation — at 1 p.m. and will end at Allen's Landing at the corner of Commerce and Main about 3:30 p.m. Because individuals will be walking back to their parked vehicles around Guadalupe Plaza, a candlelight vigil is planned upon return to Guadalupe Plaza Park at 6:30 p.m. The Houston march, rally and evening vigil are being planned by the April 10 Coalition, a loose network of immigrant and civil rights activists, church leaders, students and labor unions. In addition, Lee High School is having a student-led protest at 4 p.m., and University of St. Thomas students are holding a prayer vigil at 7 p.m. on the Student Life Mall at 3800 Montrose. http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/3782888.html
These protests rekindels you're faith in mankind. bravo to all kind hearted indiviuals who took part in this nobel causes.
texxx, you have been doing a lot of trolling as of late; you need to cut down. D&D may be for monkies flinging poo, but it does not excuse your actions.
Amount of response directed at the substance of glynch's post and thread = 0%, nothing, nada, zip, ZERO Amount of bigtexxx's response directed at the poster himself= 100%, all of it.
glynch didn't even say if he was going. (I hope he does, and gives us a report) Making a big assumption there, texxx. Keep D&D Civil.
It seems to be typical SOP for texxx and the rest of the administration supporters these days. You don't see them in the other threads discussing anything of substance. Rarely is policy or issues debated anymore. Just desperate, empty attacks on the messenger.
I'm going. I let the secretary go so she can gather her kids and go. Two friends are on their way downtown so we can go together.
Right on! Give us a report on how it was, glynch, and I'll be checking the news here in Austin to see the coverage. Keep D&D Civil.
Or that there are 4.5 million who either don't care enough either way to come out and protest or that there are that many who cannot leave their jobs for a half day.
The VAST majority of Americans want immigration reform, and immigrants and illegals are the ones marching, you won't find too many non-hispanic Americans marching out there because they don't agree with it. I'm happy the immigrants are banding together for something constructive but I also hope they accept their fate when the citizens of this country speak.
thats just crap. look at polls a month ago and you can see that immigration wasnt' on the agenda of most people. its completely an elite driven issue.
I can completely understand why people from Mexico are coming to here to improve their lives and the lives of their children because that's why my family came to the US too. However, legal immigrants have to wait years to get their green cards, my cousin had to wait in China for 12 years before they let her family come here. My wife had to wait more than two years and I am a US citizen! So if you just some how break the law you can just cut in front? Not sure what the solution is, but something needs to be done (glad I do not have to come up with a solution )
It seems you have close ties to China. In your estimation, what would happen if the US shortened up the wait time to be able to come here legally? Would there be hordes of Chinese on the next boat/plane?
I think there would be a lot more Chinese immigrants, but due to the quota system, the number is capped at some small number per year currently. Even if they up the cap number it would not come close to the number of legal immigrants from Mexico or other countries becuase you have to be directly related to someone in the US before you can come, and there just isn't that many Chinese Americans in the US.
There have been several polls since March that all have relatively the same findings... There was an NBC-WSJ poll, a Quinnipiac poll, a Time poll and a RoperASW poll that found the following: (85%) of Americans agree that illegal immigration is a “serious” problem, and over half (55%) say it is “very serious.” Completely halting illegal immigration (68%) and the reduction of the number of illegal immigrants now present in the United States to near zero (67% agree) and over 62% say they don't want to make it easier on immigrants to become citizens. Do the research, it is out there. You don't see millions of everyday Americans out there marching, you see immigrants who this effects directly marching.
