butterbean
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 Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 5:17 pm Post subject: Carpentersville Boycott Today |
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If the Illinois Alliance for Legal Immigration has its way, everyone in Carpentersville will participate in a boycott of local businesses that started at midnight.
Group leaders hope the boycott continues indefinitely, or at least until Carpentersville officials kill a proposal that could give police the power to detain suspected illegal immigrants.
The alliance is encouraging Carpentersville residents to refrain from patronizing local businesses.
The boycott comes on the heels of the village board formally asking for federal aid under the so-called “287 (g)” program, which enables towns and states to work with the federal government to enforce immigration laws. The board made the request Tuesday.
Fernando Leyva, president and founder of the 14-member Latino alliance, says such a measure would split local immigrant families, leaving many children without their parents.
Fernando Leyva, president and founder of the Illinois Alliance for Legal Immigration, passes out fliers to motorists along Route 25 that advertise a local boycott of Carpentersville businesses that started today.
Carpentersville is a village of 35,000 with a Latino population of at least 40 percent.
“What’s more painful, a business being hurt or the parents being taken away from the kids?” Leyva asked. “Separating families should be illegal. I mean, it’s a moral thing.”
Members of the alliance spent Saturday and Sunday passing out fliers about the Carpentersville boycott, after having met a few days earlier to organize it.
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http://www.dailyherald.com/news/kanestory.asp?id=258931&cc=k&tc=cvl&t=Carpentersville
 Please don't boycott, because its just a waste of time. Instead, if you are illegal, GET OUT! Or get deported. |
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