On Wednesday night, roughly 30 supporters of the Northwest Immigrant Youth Alliance gathered in the dark outside City Hall, lighting small candles for Gustavo Romero Alvarez, a 19-year-old undocumented Portlander who is slated to be deported today.
“We all make mistakes. But for undocumented kids, even a small mistake can separate you from your family,” said out-and-proud undocumented organizer Jaime Guzman. Locals have rallied around the deportation of undocumented youth recently, notably in the case of Hector Lopez, who was deported but then won the right to stay in the US.
Jobs with Justice organizer Marco Mejia tied Alvarez’s deportation to the Occupy movement, noting that his family moved to the US to find better-paying jobs. “His family is a victim of the system. The real criminals are the ones who have destroyed the world with the economic crisis,” said Mejia.
Tomorrow, Occupy is joining with the immigrant-rights groups for a big “Immigrant Rights are Workers Rights” march through downtown. A rally starts at 10am in the South Park Blocks and heads out to march at 11am.
More Mercury cover of recent immigration issues is here.
Maybe we should build a wall around the US. That way nobody can be deported because, you know, it’s impossible to get over a wall seeing as how we live in a 2D universe.
So now ‘occupy’ is pro-illegal immigration?
I am a little confused. Occupy wants to protest the fact that international borders are not open for the free movement of individuals but see the need to shut down ports in order to shut down the international movement of goods.
These idiots are going to latch on to any and everything that gives them visibility…just watch
Posts 4-16 are disgusting, paranoid, frothing racist filth…possibly by a person who is not taking his necessary medication.
Post # 18 is by a naive white-guilt sheltered Portland do-gooding libtard.
I have a feeling that someone’s CTRL, C, and V keys are nearing the end of their usefulness.
I have a feeling that someone’s naive sheltered white Portland libtardism is reaching the end of its usefulness.
Oh look, the naive white libtarded censor at the mercury censored all the news articles documenting recent (last 2 months) rapes and murders committed by illegal aliens. Typical pathetic “progressive” shitheads censor any facts that they can’t snark away or actually argue against.