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Immigration issue draws rally to Painesville Square
By Betsy Scott, The News-Herald
POSTED: 08/08/15, 6:09 PM EDT | UPDATED: 1 HR AGO
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The event was held by
the Grassroots Rally Team of Ohio to help send the message
“Americans first.”
The rally was organized
on the heels of the fatal shooting of a Concord Township woman in her home
and injury to a woman walking with her children on Lake Metroparks’ Greenway
Corridor.
The suspect is Juan
Emmanuel Razo, 35, of Painesville, who is believed to be a Mexican citizen in
the country illegally. A local immigration advocacy group has said that Razo
has been trying to get his green card for more than a decade.
The Grassroots Rally
Team of Ohio was begun in Lake County in 2007 and has held similar events
elsewhere, said coordinator Arzella Melnyk of Kirtland.
“There has been a lot
of information in the news lately about sanctuary cities; there have been
tragedies that have happened to families and we just thought it was time to get
together again,” she said, “just to let our elected officials know that we’re
not happy with what’s going on, and we expect them to do what they’ve been
elected to do, and that is to actually protect U.S. citizens, and that’s why we
need our borders secured and immigration laws enforced.”
Speaker Ralph King,
state coordinator for the Tea Party Patriots urged attendees to go to their local
government officials and seek passage of resolutions in support of enforcing
immigration laws.
“If you keep fighting
it at the top, we’re not going to win,” he said.
. . .
Robert Najmulski, a
Federation for American
Immigration Reform field representative who spoke at the event,
envisions more people getting involved.
“If things keep going
the way they’re going, there’s going to be people sitting here all the way to
the end of the park and all the way down the street,” he said. “That day is
coming, they will follow you, but unfortunately it’s going to take things
getting a lot worse.”
He noted that he is
not anti-immigration nor anti-immigrant.
“Enough is enough,”
he said. “The political correctness about the whole thing, all of the
heart-wrenching stories ... It’s got to get down to one thing. Just like I deal
with my kids, (whom) I love … in my home, this is daddy’s laws, daddy’s rules;
and in this country, we have rules, we have laws, and you will follow them or
you will leave.”
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