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'I sure hope I get a good picture of that burnin' cross for the kids.'

Klan raises anti-immigrant clamor

RUSSELLVILLE -- A Ku Klux Klan group led an anti-immigration march in Russellville on Saturday without incident, but not without opposition.

The event began with about a 10-minute march by 50 people, including about a dozen robed Klansmen, to the front of the Franklin County Courthouse. Russellville police estimated that between 300-400 people attended the rally, including onlookers.

The Alabama affiliate of the National Knights of the KKK, based in the western Franklin County town of Red Bay, had a permit for the rally.

No violence or arrests were reported during the 90-minute march and rally as about 30 police and sheriff's deputies watched and stood between the Klan and some people who showed up to opposed the march.

A group of both white and black people started a series of anti-KKK chants during the rally.

Sonja Zelada, of Florence, was in a group holding signs reading Love is the answer and Love thy neighbor.

"I don't think this kind of thing is what America really stands for," Zelada said. "I support people who are working to feed their families."

Marchers protesting proposals to give illegal immigrants amnesty and supporting calls to deport them yelled anti-immigration slogans such as "Send them back!" and "Let's get rid of the Mexicans!"

Ray Larsen, imperial wizard of the National Knights of the Ku Klux Klan from South Bend, Ind., told the crowd on a megaphone that illegal immigrants are in America to take all the jobs and they want everyone out of America. "And I'm talking about blacks and whites," Larsen said. "They want you out of here because they want this as their land."

Afterward, Klansmen went to a field near Vina in western Franklin County and burned a kerosene-soaked 22-foot-high cross in a field. More than 30 people were in the field, with a few wearing hoods over their faces and others with their faces visible.

Last Monday, many immigrants and others marched in Russellville to support A Day Without Immigrants to show the impact of the Hispanic community.

On Tuesday, about 150 demonstrators marched through the town to protest granting legal status to illegal immigrants.

Russellville is the seat of Franklin County, which has seen a dramatic growth in its Hispanic population. Hispanics now make up more than 7 percent of the county's nearly 31,000 residents, nearly double the percentage of blacks living in the county, according to 2004 census figures.

P.S. Ya know the Klan is mostly liberals. N O T !

P.S.S. In my ideal nation I would NOT ban this type of behavior. Nor would I ban flag burning. If you wanna show yer asshole as an exercise of the freedom we have(had) here that more fundamentalist freak nations don't have, I say God Bless America!