September 29, 2006

October 1 illegal alien march cancelled

Posted by D.A. King at 8:09 am - Email the author   Print This Post Print This Post  

The October 1 march by illegal aliens and those who make their living assisting and encouraging them has been cancelled. They have rescheduled for October 7. There is no need to be at the Georgia Capitol Sunday.

see below from the AJC.
5,000 expected at immigration walk

By Mary Lou Pickel
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Published on: 09/29/06

Organizers expect 5,000 people to attend a walk for dignity and self-respect for immigrants Oct. 7 from the state Capitol to Turner Field and back.

Walk organizers are calling for federal immigration reform that would legalize the nation’s estimated 12 million illegal immigrants and an end to immigration raids and deportations.

They are also protesting Georgia’s new law, known as SB 529, which uses the tax code to penalize employers who hire illegal immigrants. The bill also requires public agencies to verify lawful status for someone to receive taxpayer-funded benefits.

E-mails announcing the walk say in English, Spanish and Portuguese, “Congress, Get Back to Work!” “Legalization for All.”

The three- to four-mile walk is scheduled from 1 to 4 p.m. and includes about 20 speakers at the Capitol afterwards, said organizer Teodoro Maus, Mexico’s former consul general in Atlanta. The Atlanta Police Department expects to issue the walk permit Friday, Maj. Calvin Moss said.

The state immigration bill has put a chill through Georgia’s illegal immigrant community, said Maus. If the trend of anti-illegal immigrant rhetoric continues, immigrants will indeed leave the country, he said.

“But if we are going to leave, we should leave with our heads up and with dignity,” he said.