The group of 10 to 15 men who took up positions Tuesday outside the gate of a meat processing plant in Pullman see the world a little differently than the 400,000 people who marched one day earlier through the Loop.Expect to see more stories like this.Not a good sign for the Democratic party.
"Illegal!" they shouted at any Latino-looking person who popped into view. "Illegal!"
For the handful of self-styled immigration enforcers from the Chicago Minuteman Project, this was old hat.
This time, though, they had some new comrades-in-arms: a contingent of African-American men, mostly ex-offenders involved with an organization that advocates finding jobs for individuals with criminal records.
Wednesday, May 03, 2006
Minutemen recruit blacks against illegal immigrants
The Chicago Sun-Times reports: