Hispanos Unidos to protest Schwarzenegger today in San Diego

[Bluebear]

ESCONDIDO – The group Hispanos Unidos in the USA expects some 500 people to march near downtown (today) to protest recent comments by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger that they say were anti-immigrant and anti-Latino.

"It's a march to demand that the Mexican senators and lawmakers boycott the governor and consider him a persona non grata, an undesirable for Mexico," said Gustavo Munguia, coordinator of Hispanos Unidos, an Escondido-based immigrant group that organized several marches in support of driver licenses for immigrants in recent years.

North County demonstrators will meet near Mission Avenue and Quince Street at noon (today). They are asking that the Mexican government not allow Schwarzenegger to film or promote movies in Mexico again. He filmed the sci-fi action movie "Predator" in the jungles near Puerto Vallarta in 1987....

Schwarzenegger suggested that California's borders should be "closed," although he quickly backtracked to explain that he meant the borders need to be "secured." He then praised the Minuteman Project, comparing the volunteer border patrol group in Arizona to a Neighborhood Watch group. Schwarzenegger spokeswoman Margita Thompson said the immigrant group should understand, as fellow English learners, that the governor made a mistake in language and meant "secure," not "close," the borders.

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/northcounty/20050521-9999-1mi21march.html

[ChicanoPwr]

1. VIVA LA RAZA

CHICANO POWER ON THE RISE AGAIN!!!

[blondeatlast]

2. !Solidaridad!

"As fellow English learners...?" How utterly insulting. If that's outreach to a huge segment of the population of the Southwest, they blew it on a grand scale.

Most probably speak English far better than Ahnull does; the vast majority are native English speakers.

I'd be there with them if I could.

[Stinky The Clown]

3. English learner?

That Ahnuld must be one slow learer .... how long's he been here?

[Bluebear]

5. Precisely.

"Learner" my fanny.

[UTUSN]

4. Kick for Today n/t

[seabeyond]

6. what is it about a man that has to tilt head so far back to talk

he can hardly look at the audience,

body language people

he does this in a lot of pictures