Local Hispanics gain a key ally in their call for immigration reform

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Source: The Plain Dealer

By Robert L. Smith, The Plain Dealer

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- There were cries of ethnic profiling and anti-Hispanic prejudice at a downtown rally Monday, but also references to Jim Crow, Black Codes and the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

In what could be a watershed moment in the immigration debate in Northeast Ohio, black civic leaders joined Latinos to denounce harsh new immigration laws in Arizona and to call for comprehensive immigration reform.
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"We've been through the bad, bad days in this country before and we're not going to go back to that," State Sen. Nina Turner told a crowd of about 100 people gathered near the Free Stamp sculpture at East Ninth Street and Lakeside Avenue. "'Show me your papers?' We need people of good conscience to stand up and speak out!"
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For nearly 100 years after the Civil War, Stanley Miller (executive director of the Cleveland NAACP) said, a patchwork of state and local laws in the South "were meant to keep a certain group of people in their place. I see us starting back down that slippery slope."

Read more: http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2010/05/local_hispanics_gain_a_key_all.html

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Nicely written article by Robert Smith

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1. K&R #1 for, - hel-LO?!1 *This* is k&r (only) number ONE?!1 n/t

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2. Got to three recs!

Will never know how many unrecs.