Tucson Anti-Illegal Immigration Rally Draws 200

This isn’t a bad number of people to show up on a Thursday morning.

Brandishing American flags and signs reading “Stop the Invasion,” about 200 people showed up Thursday morning at De Anza Park to take part in a march against illegal immigration. [source]

As an American, I am proud of these folks getting out to march in support of enforcing immigration law and border security.

Across town, about 300 people showed up to march “for immigrant rights”.

A few miles away, another group - carrying images of the Virgin of Guadalupe and activist Cesar Chavez - promoted immigrant rights and condemned racism and the war.

Well that seems like a pretty wide range of things to march for in one shot, but God bless them for getting out to practice free speech. Somehow I don’t think they were marching on behalf of legal immigrants. I think they were probably marching to support people who break immigration law. They were trying to frame illegal immigration into an issue of race, which it is not. And they were throwing in the war protest part just because it’s in the liberal DNA and they can’t help it.

I think this quote from a ten-year illegal resident from Mexico at the pro-illegal rally is hilarious…

“I want to stay here,” she said in Spanish.

Honey, after ten years if you haven’t learned to say “I want to stay here” in English, you don’t seem committed to becoming a legal American citizen.

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