Austin, TX agrees to oppose Minutemen

The Austin City Council meeting began Thursday morning with a stinging remark and ended 16 hours later with calmer words, all centered on one subject: the Minutemen.

Council Member Raul Alvarez had sponsored a resolution to oppose the Minutemen, a group that is trying to stop illegal immigrants at the Texas-Mexico border. The resolution, like all city resolutions, is largely symbolic, with no regulatory oomph.

But Liberty Hill resident Jim Dillon, a carpenter who considers himself a Minuteman member and said he plans to run for governor, wasn't fond of the idea. He interrupted Mayor Will Wynn twice as Wynn tried to read the consent agenda, a housekeeping activity at the beginning of council meetings.

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The council passed the resolution 7-0, with Wynn saying he supported President Bush's stance that "dramatic immigration reform" is needed that would still allow for trade across the border.


http://www.statesman.com/metrostate/content/metro/stories/12/17minutemen.html

Immigrant votes while the repugs in the trenches are all good little nazis and want the immigrants shot. Can't have it both ways b***

So much for the MM being said NOT to be racists.

This is one of several issues that the wingnuts BLUR with MIXED issues. Nobody is for ILLEGAL immigration. But Dems need to focus on the social justice and civil rights and humane aspects. The wingnuts attracted to the supposed "border security" tend to be White supremacists of various sorts.

The same goes for abortion, our not being FOR abortion, but for CHOICE.

Dillon capped his remarks with the comment that Alvarez "should go back to Mexico where he came from"

It warms my heart that in the years to come, demographically racists like Dillon will be increasingly outnumbered. That's one bright sign for the future of America.