Protesters March for Immigrant Rights

Again, it's gratifying to see so many responses to this article which display the understanding that "illegal immigrants" or now just "immigrants" is code for corporate insourcing of low-wage replacement workers.

It's unfortunate that CD continues to publish articles which put a sympathetic spin on plantation capitalism, while publishing none on the plight of our own working class, poor and homeless whose jobs have been taken or wages slashed as a consequence of it.

The illegals should not even be called "immigrants" because in most cases they have no intention of making the U.S. their permanent home. They are migrants who are willing to work 12-16 hour days for substandard wages and no benefits, sleep six to a room, receive food stamps, free health care, education and other subsidies, and wire as much money as they can back home each week. After a number of months or years, they return to their home countries and build new houses, buy businesses, and live better than their neighbors.

I agree with others here, that illegal employers are the problem. In many cases they pay contractors to recruit foreign workers for them, provide them with false documents, and transport them to their U.S. plants. I have long said that illegal employers should be penalized and prosecuted to the full extent of the law. I also would like to see them required to pay a $5000 severance bonus to each of their illegal employees. Such penalties would quickly end this neo-slavery system, and put our own citizens back to work at decent wages.

The "illegals" are only in and trying to get into the U.S. because while the pay is [low] and other conditions, including treatment, is lousy, and worse, it's still better than starving to death; and only due to U.S. coporatist govt screwing up and profitting from screwed up govts south of the U.S. The U.S. is guilty for causing the need to try to flee to the U.S.; and U.S. voters aren't innocent. Also, much of the western USA was natural territory for Chicanos of Mexico, and maybe other people south of the U.S.

So the "illegals" really are NOT illegally in the USA; it's the USA that is genocidal, ..., etcetera. In reality, they're at home and we're descendents of invaders, ..., or else current newcomers; all seeking to profit while denying the rights of the indigenous peoples here.

I "journeyed" with an elderly Franciscan monk for several years, meeting weekly and sometimes two times a week, a counselor, morally, religiously, socially, in all respects, really; and I could not find anything to disagree with him about, and still don't.

Plain, simple, and damned way to live or non-co-exist. It's a strong example of the inability to [interrelate]. There's nothing wrong with these "illegals"; it's the rest of us who are wrong! Those of us against these so-called illegals, that is.

No one can alter my perception on this topic. We seriously lack [humanity] in our society or world. A lot of people want to blame or [persecute] these migrants, and it's really hypocritical. "Do for others that which you'd want done for you", and everyone, most people anyway, condemning these migrants being present in the USA would not want to be treated this way if the positions were opposite.

The solution is not in expelling the migrants, but in cleaning up the U.S. govt, getting all of the ethically and legally corrupt bs out of the govt and for it to provide reparations to the countries these migrants flee from in order to try to ... what? SURVIVE! They struggle to survive because of hellishly corrupt U.S. govt! And U.S. voters repeatedly elect and re-elect criminals, often known to be this; but still elected or re-elected! We have to read enough non-msm, instead of only or mostly msm, and to develop and exercise real conscience.

Being selfish, bigot, ... never "pays off"; it's always a "burn", and for everyone involved. Learning to interrelate in humane terms, now that "pays".

"This is Germany in the 1930s all over again!" according to a press statement. "The past seven years of the Bush regime have seen a dramatic escalation of attacks on immigrants on many fronts."

These people don't know what they're talking about. If America was like Germany in the 1930's we wouldn't be talking about illegal immigrants. The police would kick in their doors, drag them out and send them to labor camps or exterminate them.

Illegals have broken the law, yet expet extrordinary rights over those who have immigrated here legally. Ever get in a fender bender in TJ? Don't. You'll be lucky to leave that crappy town alive. Forget your vehicle. The mopes whining about illegals' rights would be the first ones to cry "foul" if someone cut in front of them in line at a bank, supermarket, theater, etc. The fact that ilegals are allowed to get in state tutition rates while an American citizen from out of the state must pay exorbitant fees is just one example of how illegals "rights" take preceedence over those of an American citizen.

Hey if they don't care for the way they are treated in the U.S. then go back home. It's a real simple soultion to everyone's problem.

More of the same old lies. Its not working anymore. The truth is out since last year. When someone says immigrant when they are speaking of illegal aliens, you know they are Corporate pawns helping to exploit the poor.

"Rudy Gonzales said. "We want pathways to citizenship. We want to decriminalize immigration."

A poster boy for the cheap labor lobby. He actually believes what they tell him to say. He really doesn't know that immigration here isn't illegal. But coming here illegally is criminal.

The title kinda threw mw off for a minute. I think someone edited the word "illegal" or "undocumented" out of there. I am an immigrant and most of my friends are too, however none of us feel we do not have rights. I guess cuz we came here legally. You know: do your homework, be patient, wait in line and all...

I would rather see a march demanding jail and asset forfeiture for the human scum who hire and oppress illegals, while at the same time putting the screwing to the American working class.

You may have heard of the working class. They are the people "progressives" are supposed to champion.