Monday, November 14, 2005
Of the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant & Refugee Rights, Project Minuteman, Demonizing Jim Oberweis, Excising “Illegal Alien” from the Language, Etc.
Two public faces of the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights were front and center last week.
The one most saw was the denouncement (and possible set-up) of Republican gubernatorial candidate Jim Oberweis for having two illegal aliens clean one of his company’s ice cream shops.
There was even a video of them doing the work.
How convenient, especially if one wants to demonize a politician.
The second was a loud Spanish-speaking demonstration protesting a meeting in Elgin’s American Legion of the Minuteman Project organization. The Minutemen were organized to patrol the Mexican border because its organizers, one of whom is now running for Congress, believed our government is doing an inadequate job. This was an exploratory meeting in a city with a quite large percentage of Mexican immigrants.
For the rest of the story, click here.
The one most saw was the denouncement (and possible set-up) of Republican gubernatorial candidate Jim Oberweis for having two illegal aliens clean one of his company’s ice cream shops.
There was even a video of them doing the work.
How convenient, especially if one wants to demonize a politician.
The second was a loud Spanish-speaking demonstration protesting a meeting in Elgin’s American Legion of the Minuteman Project organization. The Minutemen were organized to patrol the Mexican border because its organizers, one of whom is now running for Congress, believed our government is doing an inadequate job. This was an exploratory meeting in a city with a quite large percentage of Mexican immigrants.
For the rest of the story, click here.
