News From the Border

Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Tuesday, May 02, 2006

Organizers of immigrant rallies now wonder what comes next

By Mike Colias
ASSOCIATED PRESS
3:10 p.m. May 2, 2006

CHICAGO – A day after more than 1 million immigrants and supporters skipped work to march in rallies across the nation, some advocates say the mixed messages surrounding the “Day Without Immigrants” show a need for a unified front and the movement's own Cesar Chavez.

“We need to take this critical mass and organize it. Marching is not enough,” said Armando Navarro, coordinator of a Southern California umbrella organization that helped plan Monday's march and boycott. “We need to harness this power.”

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