RSSImmigrants march in U.S. but rallies lose steam
Carolyn Hileman - The Voice* | May 1, 2008 |
The marches didn’t achieve anything last year and there was no real focus this time,” said Salvador Reza, coordinator of the Macehualli Day Labor Center in Phoenix. “People would go out if there was reason to go out.”
Mark Jones, a professor of political science at Rice University in Houston, said the protests were smaller because activists had lost their momentum during an election year when the issue had largely been put on the back burner.
I think as an issue it has died away, it isn’t an issue in the campaigns,” Jones said. “They don’t see the need to react to (presidential candidates) Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama or John McCain. It’s much harder to mobilize people around a messy compromise when there is not a threat.”
This year, we represent a lot of diverse issues from immigration to ending the war in Iraq to health care,” 35-year-old student Angelica Rivera said
“It’s too late for this president to do anything on immigration reform. We’re looking to press the next president hard,” said Fausto Sicha, 27, an Ecuadorean student. “We’re calling for a stop to immigrant raids by police this year.”
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