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ONTARIO, Calif. It's not clear just what made eighth-grader Anthony Soltero kill himself.But the Los Angeles area teen-ager is being described as a martyr in the immigration debate.

His family says the 14-year-old had been called to the vice principal's office just hours before his death, and that he'd been threatened with jail for walking out of school to protest proposed changes to immigration law.

But school officials say he wasn't threatened with anything more than missing a dance or a field trip. And they say he didn't take part in the protests that day by thousands of students across Southern California -- he was just cutting class.

For whatever reason, he took his stepfather's rifle and killed himself. A family lawyer says he left a suicide note in which he blamed the run-in with the vice principal.

A student march planned for tomorrow in Los Angeles will be dedicated to him.

Cincinnati Change & Immigration

``This is the defining moment for the Republican Party,'' Graham, of South Carolina, said on the ``Fox News Sunday'' program. With Hispanics the fastest-growing group in the U.S., Republicans ``will lose our majority'' if Congress passes harsh penalties for illegal immigrants and fails to create a way of addressing the estimated 11 million undocumented workers already in the U.S., he said.

No matter how you look at it it is the United State of America not the United States of the Americas. If Mexicans and other foreigners want to make it here legally all to the good, let them use the legal means. Let them earn the rights and citizenship not just hand it to them cause they are here.

We, those of us in Cincinnati Change who are Americans who came to America by slavery, have paid the dues, not the 11 million illegals who broke the laws of this country and over 5 million children. They have rights as human beings in their own country, in our country we have plan if they don't want to leave America. As to the public policy, we have a solution those people will pay the United States $250 Billion Dollars over the next 5 years and we will look to create a alliance with these people. If not then what global solidarity to us have they shown.

Are they going to align with the needs of a America at war, no matter how we got there (by the way show me a way we can end the war without it coming to visit my town any time soon)? And, if the answer is the racism in our country, have you ever been in Africa? It is where I have lived and then went on to represent an African county diplomatically in the United States, the inter-tribal racism is alive and strong. how can you say Nigeria and Sudan? By the way we also support employers found guilty of employing those who break the immigration law should be prosecuted. the same with public officials and religious leaders.

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