Immigrants Walk Off the Job in Boycott

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I am suprised the INS isn't all over the rallies. Just put a corral at one end of town, let the INS agents get on horse back and round 'em up.

I'm not condoning racism but there is this hilarious video of this guy called "The Amazing Racist". He was driving around in his truck and picked up a group of illegals telling them he needed their help to build a deck. He then drove, while hitting every pot hole in the road with the workers in the bed of his truck, to the INS outpost in town and started honking the horn. The illegals scattered like cockroaches.
 
There are some serious issues here that no one is talking about. There have been hints in this and other threads that a few people might see the big pictures but mostly the problems are played down or ignored.

I don't see it as a crime issue and certainly has nothing to do with guns, which makes this posting off topic. It isn't a language issue either, whatever you all might think. I have a friend whose grandparents were still speaking German at home and that family had been in this country since before 1800. Couldn't say if they were illegals or not. I also grew up in a small town in West Virginia with a surprising number of people who were from Italy and they spoke the most fractured English you could imagine. You would swear they were putting you on. And then there were the Arabs, as they were called (they were actually Lebanese) and this was all in the 1950's and earlier.

Stop and think for a moment. First a lot of factory jobs went overseas because union factory jobs paid too much. Then for the other jobs, we bring in foreigners who work for less than Americans.

The net result is a lower standard of living for a lot of Americans. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer and there are fewer in the middle. I think the country is weaker for all that (and for other reasons as well that have nothing to do with these issues. Eventually, and perhaps already, this creates certain internal tensions and pressures, conflicts between classes, a word I hate to use, and a country that is more divided than it is united. In the meantime, if only half the people voted for the president that won, that is a bad sign--and it happened twice.

The country has other major problems as I see it, mainly the budget deficit and the trade deficit, which means the government is going broke and that wealth is leaving the country, but the immigration problem is a completely separate issue.

The funny thing is, I feel no animosity against Hispanics. I served with many in the army (they were all from the Southwest) and they just don't seem foreign in the first place. No more so than New Yorkers, if you follow me. On the other hand, well, never mind.

Say, was this boycott supposed to be a threat?
 
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Immigrants Try to Extend Boycott Momentum
Tuesday, May 2, 2006 8:09 AM EDT
The Associated Press
By GILLIAN FLACCUS

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LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Illegal immigrants and their supporters vowed to keep up the pressure on Congress for reforms after more than 1 million people stepped out of the shadows and poured into the streets in a nationwide show of economic clout.

From Los Angeles to Chicago, Houston to Miami, a "Day Without Immigrants" Monday meant a day boycotting work and school in favor of rallies and marches with waves of red, white and blue filling streets for miles.

"We have far exceeded our expectations," said Mahonrry Hidalgo, chairman of the Immigration Committee of the Latino Leadership Alliance of New Jersey. "The events are intended to show solidarity and, at the same time, send a message that injustice against the immigrant community is unacceptable. This is not the end of our struggle. It is the beginning."

The boycott was organized by immigrant activists angered by federal legislation that would criminalize an estimated 11 million illegal immigrants and fortify the U.S-Mexico border.

While some businesses suffered, the marches were festive ? despite divisions among activists who argued a boycott would alienate federal lawmakers.

In all, police departments and local officials in more than two dozen U.S. cities contacted by The Associated Press gave crowd estimates that totaled about 1.1 million marchers.

Two major rallies in Los Angeles attracted an estimated 400,000, according to the mayor's office. Another 400,000 marched through Chicago's downtown business district, police estimated. The list was long: As many as 30,000 in Houston, 50,000 in San Jose, 30,000 more across Florida. From New Mexico to Tennessee to Massachusetts, smaller rallies attracted hundreds more.

Marchers standing shoulder-to-shoulder sang and chanted and danced in the streets wearing American flags as capes and bandanas. In most cities, those who rallied wore white to signify peace and solidarity and waved signs reading "We are America" and "Today we march, tomorrow we vote."

In Los Angeles, marchers held U.S. flags aloft and sang the national anthem in English as traditional Mexican dancers and Korean drummers wove through the crowd. In Philadelphia, about a thousand people from different marches converged in the historic area near the Liberty Bell.

In Washington, D.C., rallies were scattered but the White House took note ? spokesman Scott McClellan said President Bush disapproved of the boycott.

While most demonstrations were peaceful, a Santa Ana rally of 5,000 in California was marred by people hurling rocks and plastic bottles at officers. Police made several arrests, but it was unclear if they were protesters.

Two people were arrested in Los Angeles on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon. Both men had been throwing rocks and bottles at police, Officer Jason Lee said.

And a march in Seattle was disrupted when a car struck a group of marchers, though injuries were minor: The driver was arrested, five other people were arrested for possible weapons violations and one person was arrested for obstructing.

Industries that rely on immigrant workers were clearly affected, though the impact was not uniform. There was low attendance at hotels in Indianapolis, construction sites in Miami and plant nurseries and landscapers across a wide area.

Tyson Foods Inc., the world's largest meat producer, shuttered about a dozen of its more than 100 plants. Eight of 14 Perdue Farms chicken plants also closed for the day.

The rallies shut down 29 branches of Chipotle Mexican Grill, a Denver-based fast-casual dining chain. Goya Foods, which bills itself as the nation's largest Hispanic-owned food chain, suspended delivery everywhere except Florida in what the company called a gesture of solidarity.

In the Los Angeles area, many restaurants and markets were dark and truck traffic at the twin ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach ? the nation's busiest ? was off 90 percent, said spokeswoman Theresa Adams Lopez.

The construction industry was hard hit in Florida. More than half the workers at construction sites in Miami-Dade County did not show up, according to Bill Spann, executive vice president of the Associated General Contractors of Greater Florida.

"If I lose my job, it's worth it," said Jose Cruz, an immigrant from El Salvador who rather than working his construction job protested with several thousand others in the rural city of Homestead outside Miami. "It's worth losing several jobs to get my papers."

About 35 to 40 anti-immigration demonstrators got into shouting matches with pro-immigration marchers as they were leaving a Denver park. Among them were Ron and Marge Mason of Thornton, a Denver suburb.

"We're tired of seeing the illegals coming in," Ron Mason said.

College Republicans at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte staged a rally of their own Monday, demanding tougher enforcement of existing immigration laws. The GOP group sold $5 bricks symbolic of a wall it said was needed to secure U.S. borders.

The impact on some school systems was significant. In the sprawling Los Angeles Unified School District, which is 73 percent Hispanic, about 72,000 middle and high school students were absent ? roughly one in every four.

In San Francisco, Benita Olmedo pulled her 11-year-old daughter and 7-year-old son from school.

"I want my children to know their mother is not a criminal," said Olmedo, a nanny who came here illegally in 1986 from Mexico. "I want them to be as strong I am. This shows our strength."

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Associated Press writers Jon Sarche in Denver; Alex Veiga in Long Beach, Calif.; Andrew Dalton, Christina Almeida and Peter Prengaman in Los Angeles; Jay Reeves in Birmingham, Ala.; Jordan Robertson in San Francisco; and Ryan Nakashima in Las Vegas contributed to this report.
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Hmmm, why not target the companies LISTED!? Its there in black and white that half their work force are illegals, so make examples of them! It truely make me ill to think that ANYONE can stand up and do this kind of thing on american soil and pay no price. Its one thing if they are legal american citizens, but these ARE NOT.

What if every single ex-convict got together and marched on washington? How fast do you think the National Guard would be there? But why? They are no more CRIMINAL than these guys!?
 
My question is if all 12+ million become American citizens will they still do
work that Americans won't do.?;)
 
NEWSFLASH!!!!

DATELINE - Farmingville, Long Island, New York
May 1, 2006

Today, for the first time in a decade, women were able to stop at the 7/11 on the corner of Horseblock Road (Cnty Road 16) and North Ocean Avenue (Rt. 83). For a decade now that location has been the main pickup point for allegedly illegal day laborers. Long ago women had stopped frequenting that store for their morning coffee due to countless cases of sexual harrasment and stalking.

One woman said "I didn't realize there was still a 7/11 here because normally all view of it is blocked by landscaping and contractor trucks picking up illegals."

Of course this temporary change had no effect on the nearby K-Mart and supermarket where women had long ago given up shopping at after sundown due to countless cases of harasment and occasional assualts.

That concludes this jouranlists report as I am going to go home and take care of my own damn lawn!
 
To bad the day without criminal aliens won't continue indefinitely. This will hurt their cause more than help it. When you state in interviews that you want open borders and the South West states belong to Mexico that shouldn't help their cause. Why didn't we round all these people up. What better place to do it than a rally for criminals?
 
And no one noticed (except the immigrants at the end of the week who have lower paychecks or actually got fired for walking off). What a major dud this 'event' appears to have been.
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Ta-Da! Agreed.:barf:
Mexico will be the flashpoint for the USA's next big war...coming your way in about 23 years.
 
keep right on walking until you pass the US-Mexico line...the hispanics with their taunting, intimidation and disregard of laws directed specifically at Anglo-Americans are the racists if I saw any...they hate and envy specifically white America...I freely admit whereas 20 yrs ago I had no animosity towards hispanics in general...after watching what has been happening in the last decade my opinion of them has soured a lot..but then the offense came and is still coming from their behaviour, not mine..so my conscience is perfectly clear.
 
A few weeks ago similar threads were being closed due to raciscm.At least that was the reason given. I notice that isn't happening now. Hmmmmm.:rolleyes:
 
Jeff, those threads did turn into racist threads or were so close that it was hard not to see where they were going.
 
our local freeway was very drivable. I bought a case of 45 ammo. Sweet... I agree. I would love it for these morons to protest year around. Mean while I will go have lunch with my Mexican American friend in our local steakhouse. At least his father and grandfather were servicemen in the army and airforce...
 
A friend in FL told me that he was able to order at McDonald's for the first time in years. He quit going there because he couldn't speak spanish.

But honestly, how can you come into this country ILLEGALY and demand anything? When they can demand in ENGLISH, maybe I will listen.
 
what does this have to do with guns ?
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Absolutly nothing. L&P does not neccesaily have to be gun related:

Round table discussions range from the Bill of Rights, to concealed carry, to general political issues.
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As long as we keep it civil, the mods let us run.
 
Can we have illegal-immigrant-stay-home-day once a month? How about once a week?
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How about a continuous illegals stay in Mexico until they get a visa day? No,no, that would solve all our problems.

because the illegals' crimes will give the Democrats more reasons to ban guns from US. And you are paying for their prison stays.
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Excellent point. O'Reily kept quoting a stat a couple of years ago that 25% of people in California prisons are illegal immigrants.
 
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