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Thursday, March 30, 2006

Massive Pro-Illegal Rallies: Not Spontaneous

Ben Johnson has a great piece up today over at Frontpage. He gives us a guided tour of the groups that were really behind these "spontaneous" rallies. No matter what side of the aisle you find yourself I doubt these are the folks you want driving America's policy in these perilous times.
The leftist media have tried to portray this weekend’s massive protests against House measures to curtail illegal immigration as the uprising of “The Other America”: forgotten, humble, hidden Hispanic members of the working poor simply demanding their “rights.” As events spanned from California to Detroit, Phoenix to Washington, D.C., the media kept up its anti-enforcement drumbeat. Although some have credited Latino DJs for the 500,000-strong illegal immigrant turnout in Los Angeles alone – and some credit is deserved – the real legwork was done by a more eclectic group of organizations: leftist labor unions, George Soros-funded agitators, Open Borders lobbyists, Roman Catholic clergy, and teachers unions.
It's long but good, read it all.

H/T Unabashedly Unhyphenated

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