Source:
San Francisco Chronicle(05-01) 16:05 PDT -- Thousands marched through San Francisco's Mission District Saturday to denounce a new Arizona state law as racist and to call for immigration reform.
The march, part of the annual worldwide May Day workers' rights demonstrations, stretched four to five blocks and ended at City Hall, where members of the conservative Tea Party and local Golden Gate Minutemen held a counter-protest.
Jim Homer, a business manager for the Local 216 Laborers International Union of North America, whose 100-member group led the march, said many fellow construction laborers fear Arizona's SB1070 will spread to California and create cultural hostility toward foreign-born workers.
"The immigration system is set up to blame the workers who come here," Homer said. "There needs to be reform of the immigration laws that put more focus on the employers and their responsibilities, not just on the people who come to this country to make a living."
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And guess what? There's also a big counter-protest at the
comments section of this article, with the majority of top-recommended comments saying "the law is the law, just kick out the illegal immigrants" and one even suggesting "most of these protesters were illegal immigrants". And I suppose the counter-protest was much much smaller than the anti-SB1070 crowd unless the SF Chronicle exhibited a purposeful liberal bias to the level of Fox News standards. Were there any marches against Arizona SB1070 in your area? Discuss them here!
Here's a challenge to everyone who stands by this law. Yes, illegal immigration is illegal. But the thing is: What is
ONE non-racist way to determine who is an illegal immigrant just by looking at him or her?