New York outbreak of large-scale protest anti-immigration law (Photos)
China news agency, New York, July 29 - (Xinhua Wei??) "immigrants are" New York on the 29th outbreak of large-scale protest against the entry into force on the same day, Arizona's draconian "anti-immigration laws."
from New York, thousands of illegal immigrants of various ethnic groups and their supporters along the famous Brooklyn Bridge on foot, holding "we are from Arizona," "way out to illegal immigrants" and other banners petition and City Hall Plaza in New York held a rally side, hoping to express to the United States against illegal immigrants increasingly warming trend of strong dissatisfaction.
You Sicheng New York residents are immigrants, is the largest port of immigration. Currently about 70 million illegal immigrant living in New York, including a large number of Chinese. The city has been welcomed with open arms known ethnic immigrants, while the New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg also repeated that "the United States the first priority is to 12 million illegal immigrants permanent status."
day, the procession will be directed against the people of Arizona anti-illegal immigration bill. From Mexico and living in New York for nearly 10 years, Paul said, "We are concerned that the United States will learn from other states later anti-immigration laws in Arizona, eventually we will have nowhere to go." While living in New York, Brooklyn, Sandra said, "illegal immigrants cheap labor support from the U.S. economy, now the poor economy, the government wanted us kicked open, it is not fair, they will eat consequences. "
Today, many Chinese illegal immigrants living in New York has begun to feel the "anti-immigration" pressure. Chinatown in New York, Ms. Chen in the labor intermediary told reporters that the Chinese will last through the New York labor intermediaries to find in other states, including Arizona, working opportunities, and now as Arizona began to crack down on illegal immigrants, most of the Chinese worry about state policy a change in immigration policies tend to loose in New York looking for work, making the Chinese in New York hopes of finding a subsistence job more difficult.
