butterbean
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 Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 8:42 am Post subject: Protesters Target Day-Labor Site in Portland |
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Sign-toting, flag-waving Oregonians protesting illegal immigrants who work and use public services moved their protests to a day-labor pickup site in Portland for the first time Saturday.
About 20 protesters from the groups Oregonians for Immigration Reform and the Oregon chapter of the national Minuteman Civil Defense Corps carried video cameras and recorded license plates of cars and trucks stopping at the corner of Southeast Sixth Avenue and Burnside Street.
About 20 men, most of them Latinos, stood on the corner waiting for work.
Tensions rose when a few of the laborers threw rocks toward protesters but didn't hit anybody. A Portland police officer stationed nearby told them to stop.
Otherwise, the four-hour protest was marked by occasional shouting matches and no violence.
"It was definitely a successful day," said Rick Hickey of Salem, vice president of Oregonians for Immigration Reform. "We had several contractors slow down and look like they were going to stop and pick people up, but they didn't. We spooked them."
The anti-illegal immigration groups have protested five times in recent months at a day labor site in Cornelius. They vowed to continue confronting people who try to hire the day laborers at the Burnside site. The groups say they'll submit the information they've collected to federal immigration enforcement and the Internal Revenue Service, because they say people who hire day laborers usually do not pay taxes.
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http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/1160879107305180.xml&coll=7 |
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