Heartland uprising

Politics: Massive protests by illegals create a backlash that is spreading far away from the Border Belt | John Dawson

Homemakers for America founder and president Kimberly Fletcher knows when she got passionate about illegal immigration. It was when she turned on the television earlier this spring to see illegal immigrants on the news marching with Mexican flags. "When you see people marching in the streets encouraging others to be truant, disrupting traffic, vandalizing property, yelling out anti-American comments, waving Mexican flags in aspirations of becoming citizens of this country—that tends to get people upset."

What is she doing about it? Ms. Fletcher and a few other grass-roots leaders in Ohio recently formed SOS Borders, a neophyte organization hoping to ignite the grass roots against illegal immigration. But why an organization more than a thousand miles away from normal immigration battlegrounds like Texas or California? "We get asked that a lot. I think people in the heartland are waking up."