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How does the "illegal immigrant" rights movement compare to the civil rights movement of the 1960s?

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  • 2 decades ago
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    There is no comparison. Civil rights was for its citizens and illegals are not citizens to claim a right.

  • Anonymous
    2 decades ago

    Not at all! The Civil Rights Movement was about getting fair treatment for people who had been mistreated by the government. The illegal immigrant rights movement is about people, who are breaking the law, that want to be treated like they aren't breaking the law.

  • 6 years ago

    In the 1960's movement the people spoke English.

  • 2 decades ago

    This is a civil rights movement for illegals...unfortunately they don't understand that they are petitioning a few hundred miles north of where they should be.

    furthermore, illegals had an opportunity to get rights in America without rallying. They only would have had to enter legally.

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  • 2 decades ago

    About the same as going to jail or going to church. The civil rights movement was to gain rights they already had & were being denied. The illegals have no rights here.

  • 2 decades ago

    the right movement of the 60s was about black people been abused and ship out from Africa by white people as personal use and the illegal immigrants came by them self to be abused by cheep labor employers

  • DAR
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    2 decades ago

    People marched in both cases. (Was that a trick question?)

    In the '60's it took the Supreme Court to confer civil rights, though.

  • 2 decades ago

    It doesn't compare, not at all!!! Except that people are crying racism...some people are racist, but that doesn't mean that everyone who expects people who come here to follow the laws of the land are racist, they are just law abiding citizens who want everyone who comes here to also be law abiding citizens.

  • 2 decades ago

    it doesn't.....

    The people in the 1960's were prepared to die. in fact many of them were dying take Emmit Smith for example. He was KILLED for his COLOR...

    These people are being sent home on planes because they broke the law!

  • Anonymous
    2 decades ago

    You shouldn't compare the two.They were/are completely different.

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