Immigration Reform Hunger Strike: Rev. Jose Landaverde Weak But Determined After 11 Days Without Food

Chicago Tribune:

Since June 17, Rev. Jose Landaverde has been on a diet of water and fruit juice as part of a planned chain of "hunger strikes" meant to draw more urgency to calls for federal legislators to overhaul the nation's immigration system.

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Comments

[majoman]

07:11 AM on 07/01/2010

Across the nation the children of illegals are planting drug gangs where none existed before. Obama is blissfully unaware of this and La Raza calls anyone who points to this fact a racist.

Obama and La Raza would have us believe the murderers of 23,000 Mexicans do not number among the 30 million illegals. Gullible pro-amnesty folk want us to believe these murderers will all stay in Mexico.

Chuck Schumer, the architect of Obama's "immigration reform" bill tells us all illegals will undergo a thorough background check before being granted citizenship. Chuck Schumer doesn't tell us how the most corrupt criminal justice system in the Western Hemisphere -- Mexico -- will accomplish this daunting task.

And it is 30 million, not the 12 million the U.S. Census gives. Micro-economic indicators such as remittances, K-1 to K-12 school enrollment, border inflow, housing data tell us of a humongous population of illegals larger than all but three South American countries, a population almost as large as America's African American population.

These are all not hard-working peasant farmers and you and Obama are fools to think so -- dangerous fools.

Shouldn't we at least devise a way of weeding out the criminals before giving them the right to vote?

Finally, the 30 million will completely wipe-out the black vote, another thing Obama seems blissfully unaware of.

But that will be his legacy, that will be his gift to black America --- replacing the black vote with the illegal vote.

[majoman]

02:44 AM on 06/30/2010

Now this is one pro-amnesty initiative I can agree with.

Let's hope the 30 million illegals follow this brave man's example and go on hunger strikes too.

[USAFVET76]

12:16 AM on 06/29/2010

So this guy is going to kill himself so illegal aliens can be given amnesty?
He better hope Gutierrez brings him a taco or something because amnesty isn't going to happen.

[Angelus2007]

06:30 PM on 06/28/2010

I don't get hunger strikes. Because you don't eat, I am going to go out and support what you support? My will, will outlast your need for food. Sorry. I am not supporting amnesty or illegal immigration. You can starve yourself until you pass out, that is your choice, nobody is forcing you to starve yourself.

[antiTrope]

06:23 PM on 06/28/2010

he'll most likely die before anything happens.

[dtairtime]

06:13 PM on 06/28/2010

But what would he do if our politicians actually did their job and reformed immigration the way it should be reformed.

No more jobs for illegals via E-Verify.
No more welfare - require states to do thorough status checks.
No more amnesty - ever.
No more anchors - make the SCOTUS rule on this missused policy of the 14th.
No more medical except enough to transport them home & bill THEIR country.

No more illegals.

The only reform he wants is amnesty for all illegals. He doesn't care about those people who were victimized by illegals ID theft. He doesn't care about those who are denied social service money because it's all being used for illegals and their many offspring. He doesn't care about US.

[USAFVET76]

12:17 AM on 06/29/2010

You are 100% correct. Just like Gutierrez the Congressman. He is a Congressman for illegal alien hispanics, but not Americans. A sad state of affairs when he is so blatant about his anti-American beliefs. And this is one of his clones.

[vmlinux]

04:06 PM on 06/28/2010

A diet of Agua de Piña wouldn't be so bad. Even better Pina Colada.

[jrfromdallas]

03:13 PM on 06/28/2010

Should of waiting three years to do that by then you could fall back on Obamacare. Wait a minute...that's not good either.