March Pro-Inmigrante

As many of you know, there is a bill called H.R. 4437 which was passed by the House of Representative, the bill now has to go thru the senate before it can become law. Quick summary of the bill: anyone or organization who aids an undocument person will be put in jail, undocumented immigrants will served a minimun of one year in prison for being in the U.S illegally, building a fense in the Mexican and U.S border (approx. 3000 miles long), police officers can and will deport undocumented immigrants, and undocumented people in prison will remain in prison. In other words, every undocumented immigrant in this country will be sent to his native country after serving one year in prison, it might take awhile to deport over 12 million undocumented immigrants, jails will be overpopulated, the millions of US dollars that its going to cost to deport and inprison so many people. But it better to spent millions of dollars to get rid of immigrants rather than to do something to help them. Its ridiculous why some people think like that.

The point is that, yesterday we had a rally against that bill and also to support the civil rights of immigrants. It went great, we had a crowd of at least 100,000 people in the Federal Plaza by 2pm and people kept showing up all the way until 6pm. It was the biggest Rally in history according to the newspaper. I am proud to say that we, San Miguel of Back of the Yards organized at least 500 people to go to the march. Chicago has set the example of how strong we can be if we get organized like we did on friday. We owned the city, a lot of communities looked like ghost towns because they all went to the march, the streets of downtown chicago were closed most of the afternoon because of the Rally. It was a beautiful thing, I wish you all could of been part of it too.