A crowd of approximately 350 people gathered on the steps of city hall in downtown Boise Saturday to protest a recently-passed Arizona law that they believe leads to racial profiling and discrimination.
The law gives police officers in Arizona the power to attempt to determine the citizenship status of anyone they stop through lawful means. If officers have a reasonable suspicion that a person they stop might be an illegal immigrant, police have the power to detain the person under the new provision.
Several of the protesters came to the rally with signs expressing discontent and disapproval of the measure, which is set to take effect at the end of July. Many groups and organizations, including the ACLU, have promised lawsuits to prevent the law from ever being enforced. The protest in Boise was part of a string of rallies across the nation Saturday. Larger cities reported greater numbers than did Boise. Officials in Dallas, Texas, report that as many as 25,000 attended the rally in that city.
Here are a few of the signs:
Scott McGavin
Trudy McGavin
Manuel Herrera
Gustavo Acosta
Chris Arenz, left, and his brother Carlos Arenz, right
How cute, first the hypocrites in California, then the homophobes in Colorado, and now the skinhead racists from Idaho start pointing fingers!
So now how many people marched in LA? Boy that number just keeps gettin’ bigger and bigger, reminds me of the fishing stories my uncle used to tell. Bottom line, you were all expecting 100,000+ yesterday….what happened? (LOL) With such a poor turnout you barely qualify as a “sad little fringe group of malcontents”. Millions stayed home….MILLIONS……M I L L I O N S ! You don’t have America’s support, we don’t reward criminals!
As Sue Sylvester would say “Sloppy freakshow babies! somewhere in the english countryside in a stately manor home Madonna is weeping… as dozens of celebrities, politicians, and d-list wannabes do permanent damage to their credibility with the American public”
Smooches,
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[...] (Note: Several protestors came to the rally carrying signs expressing outrage over the law; see what those signs had to say here.) [...]