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Greensboro has its own version of the pro-immigration rallies going on right now at the government plaza downtown. (Other activity on this front went down in Raleigh and elsewhere today.)

I was in town today and stopped to check it out, although I'd be hard pressed to report on what most of the speakers were saying…my Spanish is very poor.

But it looked to me like somewhere north of 1,000 folks turned up as of 4:45 p.m. A lot of them were holding placards and American flags. There were only two foreign flags in the crowd that I could see, both of them Mexican flags.

The Greensboro police were well in evidence, but didn’t seem to be terribly intrusive. I counted somewhere around 20 officers in uniform, including a trio on bicycle patrol and at least a couple guys on the roof-top of the Old County Courthouse.

All and all, there was music, there was cheering, it looked like a good time was being had by those in attendance when I left, right before 5 p.m.

My colleague Amy Dominello is compiling tomorrow’s report for the paper.

Oh, and I saw Ed Cone out there, so I expect he'll have a report too.