Few Join Immigration Protests Around EP, State
EL PASO, Tx. – Planned immigration marches across the state fell far short of last year’s flag-waving throngs.
Some protesters chanted “no human being is illegal” during marches today in Texas to push for immigration reform. Events were scheduled in Dallas, Houston, Austin and El Paso.
About 70 people stood under the “Welcome to Texas” sign near an international bridge connecting Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, with El Paso.
They condemned immigration raids nationwide that have led to the deportation of undocumented workers and split them from their US-born children.
According to the Associated Press, protesters in Houston numbered about 40, far less than the thousands who took to the streets of Houston last year. But the small knot of protesters who stood in front of Houston’s federal building, waving American, Mexican and Salvadoran flags, were passionate for immigration reform.
The demonstrators, many with children in tow, carried signs calling for an end to the raids and urging an “America for All.”
Some protesters in Dallas focused on an ordinance before voters in nearby Farmers Branch that would make it illegal for landlords to rent apartments to illegal immigrants. Others protested detaining immigrant families at the T. Don Hutto facility in Taylor, near Austin.
