Protesters take Fox to task for past immigration comments.

Carolyn Hileman* | November 7, 2007

By Steve Mocarsky smocarsky@timesleader.com
Staff Writer

WILKES-BARRE – Those who attended former Mexican President Vicente Fox’s speech at the F.M. Kirby Center on Monday got an earful before they even entered the theater.

About 75 to 100 protesters were gathered on Public Square across the street from the Kirby, holding American flags and signs protesting Fox and illegal immigration, and chanting slogans such as “Fox, go home!” and “Legals, yes; illegals, no!”

Hazleton-based grassroots group Voice of the People USA organized the protest because of Fox’s past comments on illegal immigration and American immigration policies, said Frank Scavo, the group’s chairman.

Dan Smeriglio, the group’s president and founder, pointed to media reports stating that outward migration from Mexico increased 152 percent under Fox’s tenure, that Fox blasted cities such as Irving, Texas, for arresting and deporting illegal alien criminals, and that Fox has called anyone who is against illegal immigration a “xenophobe.”

And when Bill O’Reilly of FOX News asked Fox if it was OK to allow Mexican people to enter the United States illegally, Fox responded, “Of course,” Smeriglio said.

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