Cinco de Mayo parade canceled over Trump immigration crackdown fears

[TexasTowelie]

PHILADELPHIA -- Organizers of an annual Cinco de Mayo festival in Philadelphia have canceled this year's celebration over fears of an immigration crackdown, according to a report by NBC10.

El Carnaval de Puebla usually attracts about 15,000 attendees, according to organizers, but recent reports of increased arrests of unauthorized immigrants led planners to cancel because of "the severe conditions affecting the immigrant community," officials told the station.

Reports of immigration raids and rumors of ICE checkpoints and sweeps have spread among immigrant communities nationwide in the last few months.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced this week that it had arrested 248 people in Pennsylvania, Delaware and West Virginia in the last two weeks.

Read more: http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2017/03/cinco_de_mayo_parade_canceled_over_trump_immigration_crackdown_fears.html

[Warpy]

1. Makes me wonder what will happen here in NM

where the Hispanic population is huge and Cinco de Mayo a huge celebration every year.

This asshole has got to go.

[TexasTowelie]

2. Sane here in Texas anywhere south of the line between Laredo and Corpus Christi.

Whites are a minority in that part of the state.

[Warpy]

3. White folks are a minority all over this state

which suits most of us just fine, we're all minorities here. I'm hoping Cinco de Mayo goes off without a hitch and that ICE agents stay the hell away, but I know the latter is too much to hope for.

We've managed to keep them away from schools but not courtrooms and the local jail. Bastards.