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NEWS & LETTERS, November 2002
Rally for full rights
Los Angeles--Some 2,000 Latino immigrants marched and
rallied in Los Angeles, a city with one of the largest immigrant populations in
the U.S., for, as one sign stated, “the full rights of undocumented
workers.” Immigrants were marching for amnesty, the right to drivers' licenses
and an end to racial profiling and INS raids. The demonstration was co-sponsored by the AFL-CIO,
Mexican-American Legal Defense and Education Fund, Association for Residency and
Citizenship of America and others. It was a protest against the ongoing war on
immigrants. A recent INS raid targeting Latino workers at four Southern
California airports was met by a protest at L.A. International Airport. The L.A. march was also against Governor Davis vetoing a
bill to allow drivers' licenses for undocumented immigrants, many of whom depend
on the automobile to be able to work. Before the veto, 20,000 Latino immigrants
had marched through downtown L.A. for their right to a driver's license. The Green Party campaign with Peter Camejo as candidate for
governor is allowing itself to be used by Bush’s choice, the right-wing
fundamentalist Republican Simon. Davis would not allow Camejo in a recent debate
after Simon had invited him to participate. Camejo could act as a spoiler and
put the even more anti-immigrant Simon in office. According to a spokeswoman for the Center for Human Rights,
former President Clinton signed a bill granting amnesty before leaving office,
but the 350,000 immigrants who have applied still have not been granted amnesty
under the Bush administration. --Basho |
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