Immigration leader says outsiders mucking up debate

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arch on the National Mall said Answer, the organizers of the May 1 National Boycott are taking advantage of the immigrant movement for ideological purposes that have nothing to do with immigration.

Jamie Contreras, president of the National Capital Immigration Coalition that organized the march of an estimated 150,000 demonstrators April 10, said that ANSWER, or Act Now to Stop War and End Racism, has had no hand in the mobilization and is trying to “ride the wave of the community and that’s not fair.”

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