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.

Thursday, December 20, 2007

Immigrant advocates protest Gordon move

100 march to City Hall

Daniel González
The Arizona Republic
Dec. 19, 2007 05:00 PM

About 100 immigrant-rights advocates marched from a Phoenix furniture store to City Hall on Wednesday to protest Mayor Phil Gordon's efforts to have Phoenix police take a more aggressive approach toward arresting undocumented immigrants.

The march took place on the day of the last City Council meeting of the year. Marchers spoke out against Gordon's decision to change a 20-year-old policy that restricts officers from asking people about their immigration status during routine encounters.

Facing growing political pressure from anti-illegal-immigration groups threatening a recall, Gordon last month asked a panel to come up with a new policy by year's end that would give police more authority to enforce immigration laws.

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