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 01, 2007

Thousands march in Phoenix, Tucson to call for immigration reform

May 1, 1:11 PM EDT
By AMANDA LEE MYERS
Associated Press Writer

PHOENIX (AP) -- Thousands of people wearing white and carrying or draped in American flags marched in the streets of Phoenix and Tucson on Tuesday to call for immigration reform.

Demonstrators waved signs reading "Stop the roundups" and "The sleeping giant woke up forever" as about 2,000 people made their way from the state fairgrounds in Phoenix to the state Capitol. At least 1,500 marched in Tucson.

Roberto Organo, an illegal immigrant who said he crossed the border from Mexico 15 years ago, carried a sign that read: "I have a dream. Peace for all my people."

"We are not criminals," Organo said. "We are looking for work to support our families. It's OK for government to enforce the law but they have to give us a chance."

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