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NY Daily NewsFormer CNN blow-hard Lou Dobbs, who made a career out of vilifying immigrants, was honored by the Women's National Republic Club on Monday. Ironically, on the same day, 16 prominent New Yorkers, outraged by Arizona's racist immigration law, engaged in an act of civil disobedience and were promptly arrested in lower Manhattan.
"Our current immigration laws are so unjust and so immoral that people of conscience will no longer abide by and be complacent in the injustices committed by the government in our name," said Bishop Orlando Findlayter, chairman of Churches United to Save and Heal, the lead organizers of the action, in front of 26 Federal Plaza, and one of those arrested.
Others to get hauled away by the NYPD included City Council members Ydanis Rodríguez and Jumaane Williams; Estela Vázquez, SEIU 1199 executive vice president; Deycy Avitia of the New York Immigration Coalition, and Susan Julia of the New Sanctuary Coalition of New York City.
Speakers criticized the Obama administration's rampingup of deportations and condemned the Arizona law that legalizes racial profiling and criminalizes immigrants. "We've done the marches, the rallies, the calls, the faxes, but still our message is not getting through," said Chung Wha Hong, the New York Immigration Coalition executive director. "Monday's civil disobedience is only the beginning because the level of frustration and anger is reaching a new height. People are willing to put their bodies on the line around the country."
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