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UNC Protesters Shut Down Illegal-Immigration Event

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A speech against illegal immigrants by a former Colorado congressman, Tom Tancredo, ended in chaos at the University of North Carolina after raucous protests led campus police to shut down the event, the News & Observer reports. One protester pounded so hard on a window that it shattered. Police also used pepper spray and threatened to use Tasers to disperse the demonstrators, some of whom were shouting profanities and accusations of racism.

Tancredo was brought to campus to speak against allowing illegal immigrants to pay in-state tuition. Hundreds of students and community members went to protest the event.

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What happened to Congressman Tom Tancredo definitely says there is no longer "Freedom of Speech for American's". What happened, should never have happened in our country, but it did. Until the American citizens stand up and speak out agaist the Illegal's taking over our country, we don't stand a chance of survival. I'm not overly concerned about the Mexican's who come here with little or no education, many not speaking english, I'm concerned about the thousands of illegal Middle Easterner's who have invaded our country and mean us harm. They come well educated, many speaking several languages, they commit their crimes, i.e., cigarette smuggling, drugs, etc., launder the money in open their own business, and continue their crimes, with the profits going overseas to terrorist groups. The Mexican's work,send their money home to their famnily, but you'll never see a M/E doing that. The form corporations, seldom if ever filing the required annual reports, obtain a "Privilege Lic.", never file the DBA they use, and never file with the Tax Office and pay taxes on their equipment as is required. They come well trained on how to work our system, and laugh at the Dumb American's. They surround us everywhere, run every convenience store, smoke shop, etc., and no one realizes what is happening to our country, and evidently don't care, or they'd speak up and do something about it. WAKE UP AMERICA

Hilda E. Davis of NC 11:10AM April 19, 2009

What happened for Congressman Tom Tancredo definitely says there is no longer "Freedom of Speech for American's". What happened, should never have happened in our country, but it did. Until the American citizens stand up and speak out agaist the Illegal's taking over our country, we don't stand a chance of survival. I'm not overly concerned about the Mexican's who come here with little or no education, many not speaking english, I'm concerned about the thousands of illegal Middle Easterner's who have invaded our country and mean us harm. They come well educated, many speaking several languages, they commit their crimes, i.e., cigarette smuggling, drugs, etc., launder the money in open their own business, and continue their crimes, with the profits going overseas to terrorist groups. The Mexican's work,send their money home to their famnily, but you'll never see a M/E doing that. The form corporations, seldom if ever filing the required annual reports, obtain a "Privilege Lic.", never file the DBA they use, and never file with the Tax Office and pay taxes on their equipment as is required. They come well trained on how to work our system, and laugh at the Dumb American's. They surround us everywhere, run every convenience store, smoke shop, etc., and no one realizes what is happening to our country, and evidently don't care, or they'd speak up and do something about it. WAKE UP AMERICA

Hilda E. Davis of NC 11:05AM April 19, 2009

UNC,
Um,...The reason the majority of our "well educated fellow Americans" are so quick to support "immigration reform" is because they are the very people who face the least likely chance of losing their job to an illegal worker. I am an American carpenter. I am the man who gets up at 5:30am. every morning and puts on the work boots and has to go out and deal with the hassle of having to compete with those that ignored the laws that were developed to protect our domestic workforce from being overwhelmed by the billions of people around the globe who wish to work in a developed Nation such as the United States...The wish and desire to have a "Better Life" for oneself and ones family is the wish and desire of virtually every human being on planet Earth, Hence the development and need for immigration Law.
Put simply, You know nothing of what You speak. So spare Us all Your foolishness.

Eddie Brown of NY 10:24PM April 18, 2009

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