Rumor of 'hunt' for immigrants draws protesters

[Judi Lynn]

March 2, 2005, 11:18PM

Rumor of 'hunt' for immigrants draws protesters
Conservatives cancel their event on the UT campus
By JEFFREY GILBERT
Copyright 2005 Houston Chronicle Austin Bureau

AUSTIN - Several hundred people gathered Wednesday on the University of Texas campus to protest what they thought was going to be an anti-immigrant demonstration by the Young Conservatives of Texas.

While the chairman of the conservatives' UT chapter insisted a so-called "illegal immigrant hunt" was not planned, a state board member for the group said such an event was scheduled on the UT campus last week, but was postponed because of planning issues.The crowd sought an explanation for rumors of the event, similar to one at the University of North Texas in late January.
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Conner said she thought she would just be passing out cake and cookies to passers-by to honor the holiday. Some protesters threw the trays, and other called the Young Conservatives "bigots" and "racists."

The anti-immigration event at the University of North Texas was not a literal hunt, said Michele Connole, a Young Conservatives state board member and publicity director for the UNT chapter. There, Young Conservatives wore orange shirts that said "illegal immigrant" on the front and "catch me if you can" on the back. Other students who "captured" the mock immigrants were given candy bars to represent the economic drain they say illegal immigrants cause.
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[Coconut Buddha Ape]

1. Words fail me...

...so I will resort to analogy.

"It wasn't a literal lynching," said Imperial Wizard Davids. "We just hung an effigy."

[xchrom]

2. a sign of the times

these young conservatives can publicly flaunt their racism and hate and ignorance.

they should be ashamed -- but i'm afraid that's too far up the evolutionary ladder for them.

[Skidmore]

3. Orange shirts, eehh.

Now we know tbe color of facism for this generation.

[Vladimir]

4. Ha ha!

you are so right

[tlcandie]

5. Don't forget the RED STARS hung on professors' doors in California...

so it's the elevated alert level color... orange or red. Interesting.

[colonel odis]

6. kudos to the students who showed up and confronted them, though.

n/t

[Redstone]

7. The shirts were the wrong color;

they should have been brown, like all the good Nazis wore in Germany in the 1930s when they went on the "Jew hunts."

Redstone