Immigration Demonstration / WHSV - Harrisonburg, VA News

HOME WEATHER NEWS SPORTS COMMUNITY BUSINESS HEALTH ENTERTAINMENT

CarSoup Holiday Guide Closings & Delays First Alert Traffic Community Photos/Videos Job Board Contests TV3 on the Go Desktop Alert

DTV Transition: Find out more!

Go Green: Go Green

Holiday Shopping: Click here for holiday shopping info

Current Radar

About WHSV: Meet the WHSV News Team

Meet the WHSV First Alert Team

Meet the WHSV Sports Team

What's on WHSV

First Alert 24/7

My Valley

The Valley's FOX

TV3 Winchester

Live Newscast: Click Here to View Live Newscast

There are currently no active polls at this time.
Click here to view other polls on our site and past poll results.

Immigration Demonstration

Save

Harrisonburg, Va.
Posted: 7:31 PM Apr 18, 2008
Last Updated: 11:28 AM Apr 21, 2008
Reporter: Keith Jones
Email Address: kjones@whsv.com

12 comments

A | A | A

Students and residents came together on Court Square Friday in support of a border crossing scheduled for Saturday and for local immigrants in the Valley.

Virginia residents and immigrant justice activists are currently in Mexico, getting ready to cross the desert into Arizona without carrying government issued identification. The Virginia-based activist network, The People United, hopes to convey that enforcement at the border, and anti-immigrant policy in Virginia, doesn't make us safer.

Barbie Spitz says, "There's nothing really that separates them from us except the color of their skin and if that isn't racism to grant someone citizenship and rights simply because of the color of their skin or from where they're born then I don't know what is."

The crossing Saturday will formally end with demonstrations in Washington D.C., organized by the Immigrant Justice Organization, Mexicans Without Borders.

More Stories
Crime Where You Live

Wind Turbine Test Tower

Staunton Enterprise Zone Grant

First Responder Talks About Double Murder

Cold Case Solved?

Moonshine Maker Arrested

Accused Robbers to Remain in Jail

Auto Theft Case Continued Again

Comments are posted from viewers like you and do not always reflect the views of this station.

Posted by: Beth Location: Harrisonburg on Apr 21, 2008 at 10:11 AM
I was talking to a young man in a Latin American country. He told me that he was saving his money to come to the US. He told me about his family and then he said, "We don't have welfare here". It is costing us tax payers millions of dollars in welfare to illegals

Posted by: Beth Location: Harrisonburg on Apr 21, 2008 at 09:52 AM
I travel south of the border and like to talk to the local people. You people who support and hire illegals are supporting the increasing proverty south of the boulder. At first money is sent home but with the start of a new family in the US the money stops causing even more proverty. This is becoming a big problem.

Posted by: Rusty Location: Shenandoah on Apr 21, 2008 at 06:35 AM
First off, Mexican is not a race. For you more progressive liberals who want everyone to embrace the latino culture, I offer this: ninguna amnistía, criminales no agradables.

Posted by: debbi Location: timberville on Apr 20, 2008 at 09:10 PM
Focal Point: Crossing the Line. Maybe the ones who think it's okay to allow illegal immigration should read this

Posted by: Michael Location: Harrisonburg on Apr 20, 2008 at 06:09 PM
People of any color who apply for those rights and go through due process are granted citizenship. Quit playing semantics. By denying the validity of the process, you are denying the validity of the law-abiding imigrants from Ireland, Scotland, England, Italy, Germany, France, Spain, China, Cuba, Viet Nam, Haiti, India and Israel. You are negating the value of the lives and deaths of the "Texicans", Mexican farmers who fought for independence from Mexico at the Alamo. THEY thought something separated "us" and "them", and were willing to die for it. Withought borders, there is no national identity, and no reason to defend your country. Without a defined United States the Blitzkreig would have swept the world and reached the USA by about 1942, and right now you'd be sitting in a concentration camp for criticizing the policies of Hitler's annexation. You know... "ein volk, ein reich"? And please tell me what Mexico will do to stop Muslim extremists? MS13 is working WITH them.

Posted by: David Location: Austin on Apr 20, 2008 at 05:40 PM
Nope! I'm going to stay and try and prevent the bigots from destroying America!

Posted by: Anonymous on Apr 19, 2008 at 07:28 PM
DAVID: I guess you condone ILLEGAL immigration also. Maybe you should leave the United States too.

Posted by: David Location: Austin on Apr 19, 2008 at 03:49 PM
Oops! I meant "NOT" bigots like you are.

Posted by: David Location: Austin on Apr 19, 2008 at 03:02 PM
They're not traitors. They're just bigots like you are.

Posted by: Henry Location: Staunton on Apr 19, 2008 at 11:39 AM
These fools say that nothing separates us from them except the color of their skin. How about the fact that we are Citizens of the United States and they are illegal invaders. This is America where traitors to our country can call loyal Americans Racist. The traitors need to be cut down like the vermin they are. The time has come to fight for what is right in the United States.

Posted by: Lucas Location: Staunton on Apr 19, 2008 at 10:40 AM
Perhaps the border patrol will shoot them. It's sad, as the border patrol will now have to waste time to try and get these dumb people, and our tax dollars footing it.

Posted by: Locke Location: Madison VA on Apr 19, 2008 at 08:54 AM
What a bunch of traitors, spreading blatant lies & rhetoric.

This content requires the latest Adobe Flash Player and a browser with JavaScript enabled. Click here for a free download of the latest Adobe Flash Player.