After The Protests -- What's Up With The Immigration Movement?
YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia, 
, Min Lee//Catalina Hayes-Bautista//CYMC Posted: Aug 19, 2006
Editor's Note: Two young Latina organizers based in the Bay Area tell us where the energy is in the immigrant rights movement now after the marches, protests and boycotts this spring. Min Lee is an editor at YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia.
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donna fern on Aug 22, 2006 at 03:40:30 said:
I am not sure that the "movement" has lost momentum. Most immigrant families are underground by their very status. The fact that so many people came out to speak-out against the racism of the Republican agenda is amazing (arabs and mexicans are brown skinned terrorists). REGISTER TO VOTE THEN VOTE.
Enrigue on Aug 22, 2006 at 03:34:15 said:
I have been to many demonstrations in L.A. and I have not seen any of the exclusionary stuff you\'re talking about. In fact I am delighted when I see non-Latinos marching with our Latino brethren.
Louis (Lou) Freitag on Aug 22, 2006 at 02:57:58 said:
What the are we going to do with 11-15 million immigrants in this country? Is there a choice? What do you/we do to/for immigrants? Can we give them back to the ones that hired them? We don't know who hired them so we have no other choice but to give them the immmiigration instructions and the tests and hope they pass, then they become US citizens. We can only hope we don't get very many bad ones. And then have the Pope come bless them all as we have become a part of the South American mix. What else can yo do with 11-15 million illegal immigrants?
Heiderose Kober on Aug 22, 2006 at 02:55:39 said:
I'm an immigrant who came to the US legally in 1973 when it was still easy to get in if you were from a 'desirable' country like Germany. I take exception to the comment that this movement is exclusively Mexican. I marched alongside Americans, Africans, Asians, and other Europeans last spring when we joined an immigration rights march and rally in Siler City, NC. You are only excluded if you refuse to join in. Immigration rights encompass labor rights, women rights, minority rights, etc., and most of all, human rights. Hardly an exclusive movement.
In solidarity,
Heide
xine on Aug 22, 2006 at 02:47:59 said:
no, we're not forgotten, we just need to organize ourselves, and we'll be in the mix too. unfortunately, you can't expect someone else to do it for you.
ligaya agbayani on Aug 18, 2006 at 05:01:57 said:
I'm sorry, the reason why the movement LOST momentum is the fact that this illegal immigration movement is EXCLUSIVELY Mexican. I see the implications of "if you're not from the Americas, f*ck you because you don't mean squat." What about Africans, Asians or (gasp!) European immigrants from war-torn nations?? Are we forgotten too?
-->I guess so!!!