International Business Times
By Cristina Silva
August 6, 2015
Ohio
protesters angry with the GOP's tough stance on immigration planned to
rally Thursday night outside a debate scheduled between the top 10
Republican candidates for
president in Cleveland. The protest was slated to include immigrants
opposed to candidate Donald Trump's "hate rhetoric," local media
reported Thursday.
Organizer
Don Cannon said the U.S. Constitution gives him permission to have
nearly 200 protesters rally against Trump, who has made racist remarks
in recent weeks describing
Mexican immigrants as rapists and killers. A group of representatives
of the progressive group Code Pink and members of Change.org also plan
to join the "Stop the Hate" rally. Cannon said protestors are hopeful
"candidates who have not yet taken a stand against
Trump and his derogatory and dehumanizing comments will realize this is
unacceptable and could lead to more racial violence in our country."
Blake
Williams, a spokesman for Americans United for Change, another protest
group, told local media the goal was to show "how out-of-touch and
[outdated] all the candidates
in the Republican field are." Other protesters were expected to gather
in opposition to President Barack Obama's Iran nuclear deal.
To
avoid problems with police, the "Stop the Hate" protestors must stay on
city sidewalks. If the demonstrations block traffic, participants could
face a misdemeanor citation
under Cleveland law.
“These
events are expected to draw scores of visitors from all over the
country into our city to get a first look at potential Presidential
nominees and experience all
the great things our city has to offer,” the city said in a news
release on Monday. Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson urged residents to be
aware of increased security ahead of the debate.
A
NBC-Wall Street Journal poll this week found 47 percent of Americans
support giving undocumented immigrants a pathway to citizenship,
including 58 percent of Democrats,
58 percent of Latinos, 45 percent of independents and 36 percent of
Republicans.
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