Are the voices of the protesters againt minute men being heard?

In Chicago, four anti-racist activist were sentenced on April twenty-fifth to a Court supervision and community service work. This happened during a peacefully protest against the anti-immigrant Minute Men project. They got sentenced because they pleaded guilty to misdemeanor battery. This four along with five hundred other people who were protesting against a conference and a boot camp that the minute men were holding at a local school. The minute men are considered as a group who opposes immigration, organizes armed vigilantes to patrol and supposedly "protect" the U.S. border. The result of the protest was good because the eventually decided to drop all the charges against the four.

Some questions that I have woudl be:
- How many innocent people who to jail because of injustifiable acts?
- Why do the minute men have very stong feelings about immigrants?
- Why does the state allow this type of projects to keep on going?

Chivalry Research links

http://www.astro.umd.edu/~marshall/chivalry.html

http://www.chronique.com/Library/Chivalry/code.htm

http://www.medieval-life.net/chivalry.htm


http://www.castles.me.uk/medieval-code-chivalry.htm

What exactly do the minutemen do?

What the minute men are supposed to do is when in sight of illegal immigrants they should report them to border patrol and let them take care of the rest. Instead they have set their own rules and have decided to stop them themselves. Some of the people that are standing up and trying to do something to set justice towards those who have only migrate here to have a better life and a well lived future for their children. HRCC President Eddie Herrera has said "We do not believe that we must put human right and human worth aside simply because they are undocumented immigrants; First and foremost they are human beings." What he is trying to say in this quote would be that the minute men projects has not being fair towards undocumented immigrants.

Questions about this article after I finished reading:
- What else can we do to stop this inhuman act ?
- How are some ways we can help and support?
- What is being taking into action?

First law passed in the U.S. against illegal immigration

The first law passed against illegal immigration was on the year of1882. It was called Chinese Exclusion Act, this law was passed by the congress and signed by the President Chester A. Arthur. The reason why the Chinese came to the U.S. was because the Gold Rush happened during a great period of poverty in China. Most of the people in China decided to migrate to America especially to California. Once they came here and got jobs they were exploited, discriminated, received low wages(the amount of money they got here was a lot more than they would get in their homeland), their were a lot of propaganda and cartoons that resembled a Chinese worker that worked cheap and that they smelled bad. Not only the Chinese had to go through all of these but they also had to deal with the hatred from the American miners who thought that because of the Chinese miners they were not able to get higher wages.

After I finished reading this article I have arrived to a couple questions:

-Why did the Chinese stayed quiet and allowed this law to get passed?

-How come the Chinese Government did not do a thing about what was going on until the year of 1943?

-Would the U.S. have done what they did if the Chinese would have rebelled against what was going on?

-What was the perspective of the Chinese Laborers on the matter?