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Protesters target day-labor site in Portland.
Byline: Aimee Green
Oct. 15--Sign-toting, flag-waving Oregonians protesting illegal immigrants who work and use public services moved their protests to a day-labor pickup site in Portland for the first time Saturday.
About 20 protesters from the groups Oregonians for Immigration Reform and the Oregon chapter of the national Minuteman Civil Defense Corps carried video cameras and recorded license plates of cars and trucks stopping at the corner of Southeast Sixth Avenue and Burnside Street.
About 20 men, most of them Latinos, stood on the corner waiting for work.
Tensions rose when a few of the laborers threw rocks toward protesters ...
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