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No Cinco De Mayo In Colonial Beach
By Greg L | 4 May 2007 | Fairfax County, Illegal Aliens | 5 Comments
A Cinco De Mayo celebration has been canceled in Colonial Beach after a Fairfax County ICE office called to find out if they could set up a booth in order to do outreach to participants on how to apply for citizenship. This looks vaguely reminiscent of an incident in Woodbridge last year where day laborers mistook utility workers for folks from the Minuteman project and Mexicanos Sin Fronteras into a frenzy. Here’s part of this latest story, courtesy of Fox News:
Fearful of a federal sweep of illegal immigrants, organizers canceled a Cinco de Mayo festival scheduled for Sunday.
An organizer said she called off the traditional May 5 celebration of Hispanic pride after she said she received a phone call from the Fairfax office of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
“I don’t want to be responsible for one single parent to be taken from their home, whether they’re illegal or not,” said Maria Roe, who launched the festival three years ago.
Roe, who writes a Spanish-language column for a local weekly newspaper, said she asked the caller why she was interested in the festival and didn’t get an answer.
“What does that make you think?” Roe told the Richmond Times-Dispatch in an interview published Friday.
Gloria Williams-Brevard, an Immigration Services community relations officer, said the call was simply intended to find out more about the festival and its location. She had an interest in attending the festival to offer information on how her office can help immigrants with visa applications, citizenship requests and other support.
“We’re not the enforcement component” of immigration, she said. “If nothing else, it sounds like there is an opportunity for outreach there.”
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Greg: Thanks for your continued great, informative posts. It appears that Ben at NLS has decided to go the National Enquirer route rather than retire with his lame posts and Lowell “I still can’t find work” Feld over at RK….well, what can I say.
We should celebrate Gay Pride day in June
Cinco De Mayo should be celebrated in Cancun during Spring brake
I grew up there…CB needs any advantage it can get to bring people to that town.
guess someone doesn’t realize that cinco de mayo is not a “celebration of Hispanic pride”…It’s specifically a celebration in Mexico commemorating an initial victory of Mexican forces over French forces in the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862.
Either way…I think it was stupid of that organizer to cancel the event…even though that caller was from the “non-enforcement” arm of Immigration, she’s still, in a sense, harboring fugitives of the law and NOT giving enough opportunities to illegal immigrants to try to get legal.