{"id":5183,"date":"2015-09-09T12:16:20","date_gmt":"2015-09-09T17:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/?p=5183"},"modified":"2020-05-04T21:04:03","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T02:04:03","slug":"a-beginners-guide-to-galeo-2-how-radical-are-they-we-are-just-getting-started-galeo-escorts-self-proclaimed-illegal-aliens-into-the-georgia-state-senate-chamber-to-oppose-sb-529-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2015\/09\/09\/a-beginners-guide-to-galeo-2-how-radical-are-they-we-are-just-getting-started-galeo-escorts-self-proclaimed-illegal-aliens-into-the-georgia-state-senate-chamber-to-oppose-sb-529-march\/","title":{"rendered":"THE ILLEGAL ALIEN LOBBY – A beginners guide to GALEO # 2 : How radical are they? We are just getting started – GALEO ESCORTS SELF-PROCLAIMED ILLEGAL ALIENS INTO THE GEORGIA STATE SENATE CHAMBER TO OPPOSE SB 529 \u2013 March 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"

WITH DAX LOPEZ ON ITS BOARD OF DIRECTORS, GALEO ESCORTS SELF-PROCLAIMED ILLEGAL ALIENS INTO THE GEORGIA STATE SENATE CHAMBER TO OPPOSE PASSAGE OF SB 529 \u2013 March 2006\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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GALEO’s Executive Director Jerry Gonzalez says legislators should consider illegal aliens “constituents.”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

*Note from D.A. King: I was sitting in the senate gallery watching this happen. I knew it was coming from emails shared with me and from the event organizing posting on the GALEO website<\/a>. Note from DA: GALEO has removed the original event post from the internet. May 4, 2020<\/em><\/p>\n

Hispanics flood Capitol to protest immigration bill<\/strong>
\nBy Carlos Campos, Atlanta Journal Constitution, March 8, 2006<\/p>\n

Dozens of Hispanic immigrants flooded the halls of the state Capitol today to voice their concerns over a bill under debate in the Senate that seeks to crack down on undocumented workers in Georgia.<\/p>\n

Organizers of a morning rally on the Capitol steps urged the crowd of about 100 \u2013 mostly Hispanic men \u2013 to go inside to urge legislators to vote against Senate Bill 529<\/a>, known as the \u201cGeorgia Security and Immigration Compliance Act.\u201d<\/p>\n

About half of the crowd lingered outside, in part because a photo identification is required to enter the Capitol building.<\/p>\n

Inside, many of the immigrants \u2013 some of them whom acknowledged they are undocumented \u2013 crowded hallways outside of the Senate chamber. Many of them wore blue jeans, t-shirts, stained painter\u2019s pants, cowboy hats and ball caps, standing out from the suit-and-tie Capitol crowd that usually gathers in the halls.<\/p>\n

Jerry Gonzalez<\/a> of the Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials guided several men through a legislative phone-and-photo directory, helping them pick out certain legislators with whom to speak. Many busily filled out message forms for legislators in hopes of getting them to come out of the Senate to hear them out.<\/p>\n

Gonzalez said some of the men in the crowd who speak English were helping the Spanish-speakers to communicate with legislators.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to put a face with immigrants,\u201d Gonzalez said. \u201cMany of these immigrants live in their districts. Legislators should consider them their constituents.\u201d<\/p>\n

About 1 p.m., when debate over Sen. Chip Rogers\u2019 (R-Woodstock) bill began, the majority of the immigrants moved up to the public gallery overlooking the floor of the Senate to watch the debate. Pablo Lopez, 28, of Gwinnett County, took a day off from his landscaping job to watch the debate in person.<\/p>\n

Lopez, who acknowledged that he is an undocumented worker from Mexico, said he thought it was important to let legislators know immigrants are disturbed by the bill\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the complete article.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WITH DAX LOPEZ ON ITS BOARD OF DIRECTORS, GALEO ESCORTS SELF-PROCLAIMED ILLEGAL ALIENS INTO THE GEORGIA STATE SENATE CHAMBER TO OPPOSE PASSAGE OF SB 529 \u2013 March 2006\u00a0   GALEO’s Executive Director Jerry Gonzalez says legislators should consider illegal aliens “constituents.” *Note from D.A. King: I was sitting in the senate gallery watching this happen. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5183"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5183"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15519,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5183\/revisions\/15519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}