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Mass rallies across US call for immigrant rights
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 01 - 05 - 2007


Hundreds of thousands of undocumented
immigrants and their supporters marched in mass rallies across the US
Tuesday calling for legalization of their status, according to dpa.
The marches in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Washington and over
60 other cities came as US President George W Bush is pushing for a
guest worker programme that has been opposed by many immigrant groups
since it does not include a clear path to permanent residence or
citizenship for the estimated 12 million foreigners in the US without
legal residence permits. The marches were also intended to protest
recent federal raids that resulted in more than 18,000 arrests
nationwide.
"We want to work here legal," said Santos Abraham, 40, a
Guatemalan immigrant who took part in a march in Oakland, California.
"We like to do the work for the American people."
Some of the biggest rallies were expected in Los Angeles, where
police said an estimated 100,000 people were on the march downtown
Tuesday morning.
An estimated 1 million undocumented immigrants live in the
southern California city. Last year, over 650,000 people demonstrated
in a May 1 march, as many students took the day off school to
participate in the protests.
This year, city, school district and church leaders have urged
students to stay in school and the pleas seemed to have been heeded.
Organisers' calls for a commercial boycott also seemed to have
gone unheeded with most stores and businesses open as usual.
Seasar Donaires, 25, was one of those sitting the march out.
Donaires, an immigrant from Mexico who is now a US citizen, said he
is disillusioned with the pace of progress since last year's historic
rallies.
"I went screaming all the way to City Hall, but nothing has been
accomplished," he told the Los Angeles Times. "It's a big waste of
time. Nobody's listening to us this year. It's not going to have
impact."


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