Immigration Rally's and Ranchers' Funeral
Welcome to Fridays program I’m Susan Allen your host of Open Range. What a funny country we live in, having spent the first half of my life in an urban setting and the second in rural I’m continually amazed how the two might as well separated by a vast ocean, they’re world’s apart . Back after a quick break . This past Saturday while hundreds attended a memorial service in Douglas Arizona for a popular rancher allegedly killed by an illegal immigrant, in cities like Seattle, Chicago and Las Vegas thousands of Hispanics rallied for easier immigration laws, fervently chanting Obamas election slogan “yes we can” (in Spanish) and waving Mexican flags. A crowd numbering several thousand in Seattle alone included a high school student interviewed by the Seattle Times who complained he had been accepted by the University of Washington but can’t receive financial aid because he is an undocumented immigrant. US Rep. Jim McDermott a Democrat from Seattle was cheered loudly when he cited that any opposed to easier immigration “hide behind a thin veil of racism” in a current immigration system “ that places more emphasis on filling out forms properly than on compassion and common sense”. Common sense, Well "common sense" is prevailing in Douglas County Arizona . In response to Rancher Rob Krenz’s murder by an illegal and the fact that increased drug cartel activity has border area ranchers and their families in imminent danger, gun and Ammunition sales have are booming. In fact one gun store owner in Douglas has reporting selling at least 20 guns a week since the murder.
