Illegal Immigration Watch: After May 1 Protests – So Now What?
Anti-protester Sheila Myers stands with a small group of people shouting at cars and holding up signs on the corner of Florida and Kirby in the city of Hemet.
Los Angeles Times: Next: Converting the Energy of Protest to Political Clout
They’ve rallied, they’ve marched, they’ve boycotted.
So now what?
In the aftermath of Monday’s “Day Without Immigrants,” the urgent question immigrants and their supporters face is how to translate the passion of the streets into lasting political gains.
In coming months, immigrant rights organizers say, they will shift their energy into making a difference at the polls through registering voters, helping legal immigrants become citizens and getting out the vote in June primary elections around the nation.
“This is only the beginning,” said Hilda Delgado of Local 1877 of the Service Employees International Union in Los Angeles. “Now we have to reroute all of the energy and momentum and start registering to vote to send a clear message [for immigration reform] to the Senate and House in Washington.”
Organizers have their work cut out for them. According to the Pew Hispanic Center, only 39% of the nation’s 41 million Latinos are eligible to vote, compared with 76% of whites and 65% of blacks. And fewer than half of the 16 million eligible Latino voters voted in the 2004 general election.
Let Flap help:
1. SECURE THE BORDER
2. SECURE THE BORDER
3. SECURE THE BORDER
AND
NO AMNESTY FOR ILLEGAL ALIENS
Flap thinks the Congress has the message but we will remind them…….. AGAIN AND AGAIN….
Stay tuned…..
Protestors mass in front of City Hall in Los Angeles, May 1, 2006, as part of what was being billed as ‘A Day Without Immigrants,’ a nationwide protest staged by immigrant rights advocates to protest proposed legislation to reform U.S. immigration law.
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