Yesterday's local night TV news and today's morning news by affiliated local NPR station broadcast that the immigration rally would be on at 14:00 in McArthur Park.
On the crossing of Main Street and Capitol Avenue at 15:18, a group of about 400 people just passed by with many sign boards. One sign board reads "This is America," another "Is this America?" Other boards read "We are people too," "Our parents are not criminals," "We are workers not criminals," "Stop racism," and so on. There was no Asian in the line. Two of the paraders look White. The group shout in Latino.
The parade is to echo the national-wide Immigration rally. According to VisaPro Immigration Monitor[1], The Senate is on a two-week spring recess. Senator committee on Immigration reform bill would be back for the issue during the last week of April.
I had booked the VisaPro Immigration Monitor e-mail since last spring for the chance to be on top of immigration news. Since last March, I dropped the idea to keep an eye on this issue because I diverted my time and interest to other businesses. About mid April, a friend of Jacques called my cellular phone for some casual talk. She had been a journalist for eight years back in China. Although her major in the U.S. is media animation. She has the habit to be on top of news forever. Even thought she has obtained her green card, she knew every detail of the new immigration reform. She allowed no excuse for me to say that I knew nothing about the bill at all.
Well, maybe I had heard a lot about the reform of immigration rules in this country. I never thought it would have any influence on my life and goals. I listen to news everyday. I got some tidbits of this and that in the United States. I do not care about too much of these news since I am not a member of this country and am not trying to stay here forever. Well, well, that probably is why there is no Asian face in today's local immigration rally at all. Most of Asian people in the United States do not dare to risk expose themselves and waste their time to parade.
This is America. But it is not the America established two or three hundred years ago. "We have more republicans than democrats today. The Predident [of the United States] is doing things against our constitution and the law," Chris the computer guy, a veteran of American army, said.
