Police Make Arrests On 2nd Day Of Walkouts: US
FORT WORTH, Texas — Students rushed Dallas City Hall Tuesday in the second day of marches for the rights of illegal immigrants, leaving at least three injured; students also gathered at Kiest Park in Oak Cliff and Fort Worth City Hall.
The students flooded the most floors of Dallas City Hall, disrupting a council meeting, before police and security guards managed to usher them back out. Councilwoman Elba Garcia left a closed-door meeting to used a police-car public address system to ask students to return to school.
Hundreds of students were gathered outside Dallas City Hall with flags and signs. Several students were seen wading in the reflecting pond in front of City Hall.
One girl was carried out of the water and attended to by paramedics. At least one other person was injured moments later.
Police lined the City Hall entrance, and elevators inside the building were shut down late Tuesday morning. There was no word on damage or arrests.
Video footage Tuesday showed gridlocked traffic two or three lanes wide in front of one Dallas high school, with many truckbeds packed with students who waved Mexican flags.
At Kiest Park, about 1,500 students from Dallas and Grand Prairie schools demonstrated. Dallas police outfitted in riot gear moved in on the crowd after some of the students started throwing rocks and bottles at a woman who staged a one-person counterprotest.
Dallas police said they were forced to separate the woman from the crowd. They also moved students to a different section of the park.
Police withdrew after a few minutes and watched from a distance as the students boarded buses, which took them back to school.
Students from at least four Irving high schools walked out of class at about 9 a.m. and took the Trinity Railway Express to Dallas City Hall.
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Senators Back Guest Workers
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Is this a phony trumped-up feud between Bush and the Conservatives to court the Latinos and build up Bush’s political capital?
March 29th, 2006 at 1:47 pm
"Is this a phony trumped-up feud between Bush and the Conservatives to court the Latinos and build up Bush’s political capital?"
* George P. Bush
http://www.who2.com/georgeprescottbush.html
Bush is the eldest of three children of Florida governor Jeb Bush. (He’s also the nephew of president George W. Bush and the grandson of president George Bush the elder.) He is often called simply "George P." Bush campaigned for his uncle during the 2000 presidential campaign; his good looks and Hispanic heritage (his mother, Columba, was born in Mexico) made him a popular figure with younger voters. George P. Bush’s speech at the 2000 GOP convention earned him comparisons to another political heir, the late John Kennedy Jr. Bush has an undergraduate degree from Rice University earned a law degree from the University of Texas in 2003. In 2004 he announced that he would marry a law school classmate, Amanda Williams.
Extra credit: Bush shares a name with his great-grandfather Prescott Bush… According to an 18 April 2000 article in the New York Times, "In 1988, when he was 12, [George P.] was an unwitting participant in a short-lived hullabaloo about the way his grandfather, then the vice president, introduced him and his two Mexican-American siblings to President Reagan. Vice President Bush affectionately called them ‘the little brown ones.’"
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April 2nd, 2006 at 12:56 pm
What’s your point?