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Article: The New Pilgrims.(immigrants social aspects)(Editorial)
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- The Progressive
- Article date:
- June 1, 2006
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On April 10, a gorgeous spring day, I marched for immigrant rights with about 25,000 people in Madison, Wisconsin. Latina moms were strolling their babies, fathers had their kids on their shoulders.
One little girl held up a sign that said, "I am the future."
Another sign said, "We can die for this country but our families can't live here?"
"Did the Pilgrims have papers?" read a third.
But the signs that hit home the hardest were aimed at James Sensenbrenner, the Congressman from the Milwaukee area who sponsored the bill that would turn undocumented immigrants into felons.
"Sense not Sensenbrenner," read one sign.
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