Catholic priests are comparing illegal immigrants to Oklahoma's early settlers in a new twist to arguments against deporting the illegals to Mexico and other countries.After all, the priests said, the original "Sooners" broke the rules when they slipped into the state early to claim free land on April 22, 1889, ahead of the "Boomers," who stayed at the border until signaled The Rev. Michael Chapman and the Rev. Don Wolf evoked Oklahoma history as they spoke to hundreds of mostly Hispanic legal and illegal immigrants who gathered at the Capitol on Thursday to protest the immigration law's implementation. The acts of the Sooners were civil matters, just as illegal immigrants are defying civil law by entering the country without papers. The penalty is deportation.
Wolf said both the Oklahoma settlers and the mostly Hispanic illegal immigrants of today had in common a quest for "economic freedom." http://www.koco.com/news/14504968/detail.html
2007-11-04
08:06:32
·
15 answers
·
asked by
Anonymous
in
Immigration