Farmers Branch April 1 Rally

According to a report in yesterday's edition of Al Día , a Dallas, Texas Spanish language newspaper, organizers are planning an April 1 "Mega March" on Farmers Branch, Texas in protest of that town's ordinance penalizing apartment owners who rent to undocumented migrants.

In the Al Día report, Domingo García, an attorney and civic leader, said that Congress will be discussing immigration reform around April or May and that the march would help emphasize to Congress that reform is needed. Elizabeth Villafranca, president of the Farmers Branch chapter of the League of United Latin American Citizens said that they wanted the Latino community of Farmers Branch to feel supported.

Planning of the march has barely begun, but according to the newspaper report, the planners are looking to turn out 100,000 marchers. I don't know if that's a misprint on the papers part, and I gotta wonder how realistic that goal is, but I'd sure like to see those many folks marching in Farmers Branch--especially down the street where divisive Ordinance No. 2892 pusher Tim O'Hare lives.

Meanwhile, I wonder what Gary Greer, the incoming city manager for Farmers Branch, thinks about the terrible mess O'Hare and his cohorts on the city council got the city in? Guess we'll have to stay tuned for that.