Six employees at a seafood restaurant in Houston were fired this week after skipping work to take part in a pro-immigration march. In Detroit, 21 immigrants lost their jobs as meat cutters after attending a similar protest last month.
And several students at a high school near Tampa, Fla., were suspended this week for walking out of class to go to a demonstration.
Across the country, workers and students have paid a price for attending the immigration rallies that have recently swept the nation. They have lost jobs or been cited for truancy for joining the hundreds of thousands who have protested proposed federal legislation that would crack down on illegal immigrants.
In one case, the family of a 14-year-old Los Angeles-area boy said he committed suicide because he was threatened by a school official for participating in immigration protests. School officials disputed that.
Now, some rally organizers are telling people not to risk their jobs or education to attend the demonstrations and are considering rescheduling protests to weekends and evenings.
Thursday, April 13, 2006
More immigration protestor firings
This is what protesting The Man gets you. It ain't France. Doesn't everyone know their place?
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I saw that one coming from 24,000 miles away. You bet your nachos this ain't France.
Maybe it's because I've been listening to Howard Zinn in the car. It's amazing how many jailings and arrests it takes to win an iota of civil rights. We've seen bupkus so far. We are cows. Hear us moo.
We are all immigrants. Either our families crossed the border, or the border crossed our families.
MT and Roxtar - you know there's been a general protest called for all immigrants to come out to the streets? How does that work given that we're all immigrants, yet bovine-like?
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