Immigrant Group Linked to Marxists

ne 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.

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