Column extra: More on the Mexica Movement
Today in the Daily News I write about that which has no place in the immigration debate: the separatists. When I first started attending immigration rallies -- mingling in the crowd to listen, take notes, take pics -- I immediately noticed the Mexica Movement demonstrators. So to accompany my column I dug through my photo files for shots I've taken of the group and its signs, now posted here.
I should note that reaction from others at these rallies is decidedly mixed. As I noted in my column, the Mexica Movement is often the slickest, best-prepared, best-organized, and loudest participant group at demonstrations. Some other protesters ignore them and, as I also noted in my column, wave American flags and chant "USA!", depending on the familial or confrontational nature of the protest; others curiously take literature and stop to read their signs. And yet sprinkled throughout the crowd are consistently a few more with handmade signs expressing separatist or supremacist sentiments of their own. The definition of fair immigration reform even among pro-immigration demonstrators varies as widely as our melting pot.
