Paso Robles demonstrators protest mass deportations

February 4, 2025

By KAREN VELIE

More than 200 demonstrators lined Niblick Road near Spring Street in Paso Robles on Monday afternoon in support of a “Day Without Immigrants,”a nationwide movement protesting President Donald Trump’s mass deportation plan.

The bulk of the protestors appeared to be school age Hispanics. They waved the Flag of Mexico and held up signs touting the importance of migrants in the workforce.

Shortly after federal agents raided an apartment on Creston Road in Paso Robles on Jan. 29, inaccurate information spread through the immigrant community that it was an ICE raid. Since then, some members of the migrant community are worried their friends or family members could be deported.

With Trump’s Administration ramping up arrests of criminal and undocumented immigrants, misinformation regarding ICE raids is rampant in the community and through the media.

 


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“Illegal” immigrants contribute over $8 BILLION to our taxes and Social Secuity. They cannot collect on that SS, by the way. You do. They are doing hard labor, graciously, for far less than white workers, most of which wouldn’t do the job unless they were starving. But many here seem to think it is witty to look this gift hose in the teeth and claim a moral superiority.


Comments about them “fixing” their own country fist is a bit of a laugh. The bulk of their problems at home stem from corporate American interference with their cultures in the interest of profit and American appetite for illegal drugs.


Vote me down, since it tuns ya’ll on to do so, but you know that this is true. I doubt anyone vilifying these hardworking, contributing members of the communities would be the ones to take responsibility for how much harder our lives would be without them.


Deport Melania and Musk!


Ugh..loving the small town vibe of civility and mutual respect. It’s refreshingly authentic to see people agree to disagree in a manner in which we would expect our children to follow. As a town that relies on tourism, we certainly paint the picture of a loving oasis for people to escape the stresses of modern day life and strife!


Seems like the usual culprits stirring people up with false information. ICE is looking for CRIMINALS! Not family and children. And we have immigrants in high places who agree with arresting them. Why should criminals be in our country illegally? And why should immigrants not follow the law? What a slap in the face to those who worked hard to be a legal citizen. As for flying the Mexican flag, yes this is a free country, but those doing this are not in Mexico, so obviously they should not be flying that flag, but the USA flag. If they love Mexico so much, I wonder why they’re here?


The REASON they were waving the Mexican flag is because they were protesting on behalf of the Mexican people, even so, why do people not think it’s ok for them to love their home country or to honor their heritage? This is America and we have that freedom without being condemned. They weren’t flying them because they hate America, that’s just an uneducated presumption.

There were many adults there protesting too. Many are protesting because they have friends or relatives or someone connected to being an illegal. Many illegals, especially here in Paso, have been here for 20 years plus. They work, pay taxes, social security, contribute to our community. They never draw benefits, it’s money kept by the government that Americans benefit from, they have families, grown children and grandchildren.They do the back breaking labor that people from here won’t do, regardless of the wages they make. There are children who know no other life besides America. They have no connection to Mexico, all their family is here. They are scared of having their families torn apart, being sent to a place that they don’t know, they won’t have a home or money. Yet people are in favor of punishing these people, for what? An infraction of the constitution. My goodness, the president is a convicted felon, his wife is an immigrant who violated federal law in the 1990’s by working on a visitors visa, a serious federal offense. She’s a citizen now but that doesn’t mean she did things right, she didn’t. People here don’t have the luxury of paying the money that Trump paid to get his wife’s immigration completed. He’s a hypocrite, then again, his wife is white.

it’s really sad to see these comments. You may not even realize that you may have someone you know and see on a daily basis that is here illegally. Crime is less likely to be committed by illegals than citizens. If they are convicted of a crime, once they have completed their jail time in SLO county, they are deported.


Isn’t it just a bit elitist and bigoted to think that people from all over the world can only pursue the American Dream? Where’s the equity in that? Why has no one made possible the Mexican Dream, Honduran Dream, Columbian Dream, Nigerian Dream or the Tajikistanian Dream, etc.? Perhaps now is the time for many of the illegal immigrant invaders to return to their homelands and build their societies so future generations can remain at home to pursue their dreams without having to violate American national sovereignty and immigration laws.


Aliens should try to fix their own home countries before invading ours.


200 demonstrators? Where’s the other 188?