Opponents of Immigration Bill Protest at Kyl's Office

More than 100 anti-illegal immigration demonstrators gathered outside Arizona Senator Jon Kyl's headquarters in north central Phoenix on Monday morning to protest an immigration deal that they call amnesty.

A large police presence was at the scene where some protestors as young as 8-years-old and others in their 70s and 80s gathered to make their voices heard.

Waving American flags and carrying signs saying the 'Dream Act is a Nightmare,' 'Honk for No Amnesty,' and 'Recall Kyl,' protesters demonstrated in front of Kyl's office.

Michelle Delacrose with ‘Mothers against Illegal Aliens' is calling for Senator Kyl to reconsider his position or resign.

"Unbelievable. Senator Kyl knows that we don't want amnesty here," Delacrose said. "He's claiming that the people from Arizona want a compromise. We don't want a compromise, we've never wanted a compromise."

"We don't have enough police - we've got sanctuary orders. Our kids are going to school with people who don't even belong here," she said.

Delacrose's anger is not just limited to Kyl. She said presidential candidate, Senator John McCain can't make his own state safe, much less the nation.

German immigrant and now U.S. citizen, Rene Strickier, was among the dozens of protestors rallying outside of Kyl's office.

"We came here legally. We did the proper paperwork. We learned English. We became Americans. We swore into this country. We don't hold allegiance to two countries, we hold allegiance to one country. I'm an American citizen. I will fight for America if I have to," Strickier said.

Strickier said if we have enough money to secure Iraq, we have enough to secure our border with Mexico.

"Apparently, we have enough money to secure the borders in Iraq, but we're told by our president that we don't have enough money to secure the borders in America. Those are outright lies. We don't care about the American borders," Strickier said.

Strickier said he feels a very personal connection to the illegal immigration issue. He lost an employee to a DUI crash involving three illegal immigrants.

Rick Galeener and Stephanie Harris with United for a Sovereign America said it's amnesty any way you slice it.

"If this thing sails through, we will have another civil war in this country. I hate to say it," Galeener said.

"We're not only upset at Kyl. But we are upset because he did lie to us. He said he would not compromise," Harris said. "(The) American people need to get off their butts and think, yes it will pass."

"It will pass because not enough Americans, for a long period of time, have been upset - as upset as they are now."

Galeener said Congress doesn't want to stop the problem, because big government and industry want cheap labor.

"As long as they're getting their cheap labor, the American middle class is going to get it stuck to them," Galeener said.

Former Arizona Lawmaker and activist Alfredo Guttierez appeared at Monday's protest and was taunted by anti-illegal immigration forces. "Traitor, traitor, traitor," the crowd chanted.

Guttierez and some Hispanic media members were verbally targeted by some activists. At one point, the sound of a siren blaring was piped through a bullhorn to interrupt reporter interviews with Guttirez.

One protestor, via the bullhorn, said "the only problem with Alfredo is that he hates America. But we don't hate anybody. I don't hate the illegals. This is not about hatred. It's about love. We're not out here because we hate illegals, we're here because we love our country. We don't want to see America turn into Mexico."

Most of the anti-illegal immigration protestors were turned away from Kyl's Phoenix office as they delivered petitions opposing his stand on illegal immigration. Kyl was in D.C.

Delacrose said protestors were not allowed into Kyl's office. "They wanted us to stand in the hallway," Delacrose said. "It's just sort of insulting that they wouldn't let us walk in."

"Our dignity was really crushed," Delacrose said.

According to Kyl's office, protestors seeking to deliver petitions and comments to Kyl's office were asked to enter two at a time to prevent overcrowding of the small Senate office and to allow access to other constituents visiting on unrelated matters.