No les gustan Schwarzenegger

Groups supporting immigrants marched against Gov. Schwarzenegger in Los Angeles: Activistas retan a Schwarzenegger de Jorge Luis Macías La Opinión 06/03/05.

Schwarzenegger fue criticado por revocar una ley de licencias de conducir para indocumentados, alabar a los “cazainmigrantes” del proyecto Minuteman y pedir el cierre de la frontera de Estados Unidos con México.

“No lo queremos. Es el destructor de los pobres... es el hijo del diablo”, dijo Guadalupe Rodríguez, miembro del Frente Cívico Zacatecano. “Necesita dejar de ser manipulado por Pete Wilson”.

Wilson, el ex gobernador republicano, fue el promotor principal de la Proposición 187, que negaba todo tipo de servicios sociales a los inmigrantes indocumentados, aunque después fue declarada inconstitucional.

[Translation: Schwarzenegger was criticized for revoking a law on drivers licenses for undocumented [immigrants], praising the "immigrant hunters" of the Minuteman project and calling for the closing of the border between the United States and México.

"We don't like him.  He is the destroyer of the poor ... he's the son of the devil," said Guadalupe Rodríguez, amember of the Frente Cívico Zacatecano.  "He has to stop being manipulated by Pete Wilson.

Wilson, the former Republican governor, was the principle promoter of Proposition 187, which denied all types of social services to undocumented immigrants, aunque later was declared unconstitutional.]

Now that's some Jacksonian polemics: "the destroyer of the poor."

If the California Republicans have a strategy of actively trying to drive Latino voters away from their party, they seem to be succeeding in at least that.

AOL News, which tends toward the conservative side, highlighted one of the demands of the march, which was requesting Latin American governments to declare Schwarzenegger unwelcome and also to promote a boycott of all Schwarzenegger products:  Quieren que México lo haga "persona non grata"  AOL Latino Noticias: Quieren que Mexico lo haga "persona non grata" 06/03/05  - AOL-only link (I think).

Schwarzenegger is starting to lean more toward Bush's habit of avoiding any appearance where he might actually have to hear a dissenting voice: Dogged by protesters, Schwarzenegger opts for less public venues by Tom Chorneau (AP) Sacramento Bee 06/03/05.  No, Arnold, I don't think you're in Hollywood any more.