Minuteman Project Kicks Off 12-city Tour To Build Support For Immigration

[struggle4progress]

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Leaders of the Minuteman Project began a cross-country tour Wednesday to seek support for tighter border security, launching a caravan to the nation's capital from a heavily black neighborhood where many residents shouted at the
civilian patrol group to go home.

Minuteman leaders started the trip from a park in a black neighborhood as part of a push to attract more blacks as members ...

But the event soon provoked screaming matches about whether illegal immigrants were taking jobs from blacks or should be embraced as fellow minorities looking for a better life.

Gilchrist had to yell over a dozen mostly black protesters who chanted "Minutemen go home!" and "KKK go home!" ...

http://www.kotv.com/main/home/storiesNL.asp?whichpage=1&id=103622

[AllieB]

1. Funny, there are no Northeastern cities on the tour

"According to the Minutemen Web site, the caravan is scheduled to stop in President Bush's vacation haven of Crawford, Texas, as well as Phoenix, Albuquerque, N.M.; Abilene, Texas; Little Rock, Ark.; Memphis, Tenn.; Nashville, Tenn.; Birmingham, Ala.; Atlanta; Greensboro, N.C.; and Richmond, Va., before arriving in Washington."

New York, Boston, and many of the smaller cities in New England have huge immigrant populations. They were probably afraid of getting their butts kicked.

[RagingInMiami]

2. I wish they go south

All the way down to Miami.

[AllieB]

5. It looks like they're avoiding cities where they might be outnumbered

they're so brave!

[struggle4progress]

7. I'd prefer to see them about a hundred miles south of Miami.

[Betsy Ross]

3. Support for Immigration?

Something's wrong with the subject.

[donheld]

4. The minutemen will get no help from me

Racist bunch of fools.

[Erika]

6. Don't these Minutemen have jobs or responsibilities?

It would be interesting to see who's funding them.

[freesqueeze]

8. Odd that...

they are working in an area of America that is 70 ro 80 percent Hispanic but they all seem to be whiter than Nicole Kidman (or the Fox News morning crew).

[TheCrankyOne]

9. ..

I wonder if they will don their white hoods? Everyone who wants to live here should be able to live here.