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Day Without Immigrants to Hit Washington in the Stomach
NY Times ^
| February 15, 2017
| Richard Perez-Pena and Katie Rodgers
Posted on 02/16/2017 6:16:46 AM PST by C19fan
In a city where expense account meals are a central part of power players lives, some of Washingtons best-known restaurants will close their doors on Thursday in solidarity with a national campaign to draw attention to the power and plight of immigrants.
The campaign, spread on social media and messaging apps, has called for a day without immigrants. It asks foreign-born people nationwide, regardless of legal status, not to go to work or go shopping in a demonstration of the importance of their labor and consumer spending to the United States economy.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: aliens; daywithoutimmigrants; fakenews; immigration; nyts
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A day without traffic, a day without immigrant criminals,welfare leeches, and kids ruining public schools.
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posted on
02/16/2017 6:16:46 AM PST
by
C19fan
To: C19fan
Will they be avoiding emergency rooms as well?
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posted on
02/16/2017 6:17:41 AM PST
by
LydiaLong
To: C19fan
OMG! NO K Street funded lunches for a day. A four year hiatus sounds about right.
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posted on
02/16/2017 6:18:22 AM PST
by
Paladin2
(No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
To: C19fan
The foreign born must be asking the question: “Who’s gonna pay MY babysitter today?”
To: C19fan
Oh gee. Just how WILL these DC government employees, politicians, lobbyists and media wonks ever get along without their food source for that interminably long day?
I’m just all beside myself about it - can’t sleep, eat or even watch TV. Like Slick said, “I feel your pain....”
Bwaaaaaaahhhhaaaaaaaa!!!
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posted on
02/16/2017 6:19:35 AM PST
by
Gaffer
To: C19fan
Just got back from downtown. Everything seems normal. Everybody is working and I saw no Mexican flags. Since America is a “nation of immigrants”, I expected everybody except the Native Americans to take the day off. This snowflake fiasco looks like an epic fail to me.
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posted on
02/16/2017 6:20:34 AM PST
by
FlingWingFlyer
(As long as tyranny exists, the Constitution and Bill of Right will never be "outdated" or "obsolete")
To: C19fan
The shrug heard ‘round the country.’
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posted on
02/16/2017 6:20:45 AM PST
by
freedumb2003
(Not tired of winning yet!)
To: LydiaLong
Will they be avoiding emergency rooms as well?
No, they'll be flooding them since they don't have to work.
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posted on
02/16/2017 6:20:46 AM PST
by
\/\/ayne
(I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
To: C19fan
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posted on
02/16/2017 6:21:30 AM PST
by
onedoug
To: C19fan
Perhaps the fat slugs in DC will discover the mental clarity benefits of fasting.
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posted on
02/16/2017 6:21:40 AM PST
by
Zuse
(I am disrupted! I am offended! I am insulted! I am outraged!)
To: C19fan
Trump needs to make this day permanent.
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posted on
02/16/2017 6:22:23 AM PST
by
BradtotheBone
(Record number of people on welfare. That's the State of the Union under Obama.)
To: C19fan
Won’t it just show how many jobs are being taken from real Americans?
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posted on
02/16/2017 6:22:25 AM PST
by
jeffc
(The U.S. media are our enemy)
To: C19fan
How about a decade without illegal immigrants?
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posted on
02/16/2017 6:22:25 AM PST
by
Pollster1
("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
To: LydiaLong
Glad I didn’t have a drink of coffee while reading that one! Best Post!
To: LydiaLong
Will they avoid sending other people to emergency rooms?
To: C19fan
Pass a big box of ...
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posted on
02/16/2017 6:23:52 AM PST
by
Daffynition
("The New PTSD: Post-Trump Stress Disorder" - The MLN didn't make Trump, so they can't break Trump.)
To: C19fan
Now Pelosi can make house calls washing feet
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posted on
02/16/2017 6:24:24 AM PST
by
Doogle
(( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
To: C19fan
Soooooooo.
The most this will affect anyone, would be like if it was Christmas?
To: C19fan
Like we’re going negate the laws over this? Gimme a break.
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posted on
02/16/2017 6:24:35 AM PST
by
umgud
To: Pollster1
This country did fine when immigration was severely restricted after WW I to 1965.
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posted on
02/16/2017 6:26:42 AM PST
by
C19fan
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