Immigrant Group Linked to Marxists
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key organizer of the nationwide protests in March by illegal
aliens against U.S. immigration law is a group linked to
the Workers World Party, a Marxist outfit that has supported
North Korean Communist dictator Kim Jong-il, according to
the Washington Times.
The
group, Act Now to Stop War and End Racism (ANSWER), helped
organize the Los Angeles demonstration that drew some 500,000
illegal aliens and their supporters to the streets to protest
American immigration law. The march was co-chaired by Juan
Jose Gutierrez, director of Latino Movement USA, who is
a member of ANSWER's Los Angeles steering committee.
ANSWER
has denounced attempts to protect the U.S. border from illegal
immigration and has called House-passed border security
legislation "racist."
The
Workers World Party, a communist group founded in the U.S.
in 1959, "was instrumental in founding ANSWER,"
the Times reported.
ANSWER
says it will "settle for nothing less than full amnesty
and dignity for the millions of undocumented workers presently
in the United States."
Gutierrez
and another ANSWER member, Gloria La Riva, spoke at the
Los Angeles demonstration.
"The
racist politicians thought they could step on us with their
racist legislation, but they have awakened the immigrant
giant," said La Riva.
