[Americanexpat]

"We contribute to this great state and we should not be pushed around like we are."

Who is being pushed around? Is this person a legal immigrant, or an illegal? If he is illegal then he needs to be pushed all the way across the border. How many times do we have to say it? This isn't about immigration, it's about illegal entry into the country.

[Ros42]

An immigrant advocacy group asked Hispanics

An ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT advocacy group asked ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS...

[Mad Dawg]

"This is a test so people can see and feel the power we have and the actual stranglehold we have on the economy of this state," Elias Bermudez,...

Bring it ON, Mr Bermudez. Yeah, there'd be some dislocation for a while. But a free economy, one not dominated by corruption and the vestiges of Spanish aristocracy and early 20th century socialism, can adjust to the absence of cheap illegal labor.

And while we're adjusting, why don't you go back to your benighted part of the world and get a stranglehold on IT? Maybe you couldhelp make it an economy worth living with.

(Sheesh!)

[Dante3]

This publicity for illegal aliens (and many legal immigrants) only reveals, among others, their sociopathic sense of entitlement and will only help to turn at least some of the complacent citizens against them.

[hershey]

Appalling, but predictable. We're in for a rough time over this.

[HiJinx]

Feelings are running a bit hot, today...

The kids passed a protest group out in front of the Fiesta Mall in Mesa, AZ yesterday. The signs were in Spanish, and made no sense to them whatsoever. The daughter-in-law is only two generations removed from Mexico.

[engrpat]

According to the Arizona Republic(Phoenix paper) it was a successLink to article

[TLI]

"An immigrant advocacy group asked Hispanics to boycott businesses and to stay home from work yesterday to protest legislation by Arizona lawmakers targeting illegal aliens,"

That was yesterday? Must'a missed it.

[McGavin999]

One hundred sixty illegals at a fine of $10,000 each would produce $1,600,000 that could be paid toward the debt that is incurred by these workers.

[DLfromthedesert]

Well, my mechanic was working. The anchor (Martha Vazquez) on a local news channel was working, and she had to do this story. I don't know how she kept a straight face.

People who are here legitimately do not appreciate the undercutting of their wages.

[John Lenin]

At the next boycott the INS should show up with paddy wagons and haul these lawbreakers off for deportation. That'll teach em.

[Travis McGee]

[Happy2BMe]

""We (ILLEGAL ALIENS) contribute to the greatness of this state and we should not be pushed around like we are."

[HungarianGypsy]

In the man on the street statements in the EV Tribune today were the most stupid quotes. When asked if they were worried about illegal immigrants, the first response was "No. Because it's goign to happen anyway." The second was a jumble: She said she was glad they could come over for work, but wishes they were more responsible. The third respondent was the only one who saw it as a problem.

[Ron H.]

Although advertised extensively on Spanish-language radio and television stations, most community and civic leaders agreed that yesterday's boycott was a failure because many potential participants could not afford to lose a workday or business income.

Let me see now. Most potential participants (aka illegal aliens) couldn't afford to lose a days wages and now Senor Bermudez says he fully expects the 3-day boycott in July to be an even bigger success. Must be something in the water (Tequila flavored water apparently) in his area as this kind of thinking is just as convoluted as their reasoning on the entire subject of their sense of 'entitlement' to American citizenship and American tax payer dollars.

[BillyBoy]

Why the hell should "hispanics" boycott? The legislation being adderssed won't affect the lives of LEGAL hispanic immigrats. Perhaps the race-baiting idiot who's organizing this might want to check with ILLEGAL aliens of other ethnic groups if he wants to get his "boycott" numbers to go up. I'm sure some illegal arabs "targeted" by this law would be happy to "boycott" as well. Even ILLEGAL europeans in arizonas who leech off our system would be inclined to boycott.

Bring your boycott on, we'll just see how "dependant" America is on illegal aliens. The millions of legal citizens of Arizona should get along just fine without having some border hopper mow their lawn for 25 cents an hour that day.

[Brad’s Gramma]

BTTT!!!