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05-23-2006, 12:53 PM
Minutemen, protesters square off at Capitol
By Andy Sullivan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Illegal immigration protesters wrapped up a cross-country caravan on Friday with a rally in the shadow of the U.S. Capitol, as immigrant-rights activists chanted for them to "go away."
Members of the Minuteman Project and other border-patrol groups warned the United States was in danger of being overrun by Mexicans if the Senate passes a bill that would give millions of illegal immigrants a chance to earn citizenship.
"They should be rounded up and deported, every single one of them," John Clark of the American Immigration Control Foundation said to a cheering crowd of about two dozen. "Leave them here and in 10 years this will not be the United States of America."
Fifty yards away a similar number of counter-protesters chanted "Minutemen go away, immigrants are here to stay" behind a line of police.
Yahoo News (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060512/ts_nm/usa_immigration_protest_dc)
A 'crowd' of two dozen. :lol That's not a crowd, that's a rally of people who still openly support the war in Iraq
http://www.deblog.co.uk/photos/freepercrowd.jpg
By Andy Sullivan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Illegal immigration protesters wrapped up a cross-country caravan on Friday with a rally in the shadow of the U.S. Capitol, as immigrant-rights activists chanted for them to "go away."
Members of the Minuteman Project and other border-patrol groups warned the United States was in danger of being overrun by Mexicans if the Senate passes a bill that would give millions of illegal immigrants a chance to earn citizenship.
"They should be rounded up and deported, every single one of them," John Clark of the American Immigration Control Foundation said to a cheering crowd of about two dozen. "Leave them here and in 10 years this will not be the United States of America."
Fifty yards away a similar number of counter-protesters chanted "Minutemen go away, immigrants are here to stay" behind a line of police.
Yahoo News (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060512/ts_nm/usa_immigration_protest_dc)
A 'crowd' of two dozen. :lol That's not a crowd, that's a rally of people who still openly support the war in Iraq
http://www.deblog.co.uk/photos/freepercrowd.jpg