Maybe in the short term yes, maybe not in the long term. Here in DC we had Dem politicians like Kennedy and Moran capitalizing on it and the crowd chanted "Today we march, tomorrow we vote." A number of the speakers promised that politicians who opposed what they wanted would be targetted. It was a thinly veiled threat. I have no doubt that the Dem political machine, which has perfected voter fraud, will be happy to add these "undocumented workers" to the voter rolls. The Dems see Hispanics as their lock on political power in the future. One in every three Dem voters now is either black or Hispanic. Since Hispanics are the country's largest and fastest growing minority, the Dems want them to identify with their party. It seems to be working. Every time a Rep name was mentioned, the booing started. This was a Dem crowd.
Mexican immigrants constituted 27.6 percent of the total foreign-born U.S. population in 2000. The next largest contingents, Chinese and Filipinos, amounted to only 4.9 percent and 4.3 percent of the foreign-born population.
In the 1990s, Mexicans composed more than half of the new Latin American immigrants to the United States and, by 2000, Hispanics totaled about one half of all migrants entering the continental United States. Hispanics composed 12 percent of the total U.S. population in 2000. This group increased by almost 10 percent from 2000 to 2002 and has now become larger than blacks. It is estimated Hispanics may constitute up to 25 percent of the U.S. population by 2050. These changes are driven not just by immigration but also by fertility. In 2002, fertility rates in the United States were estimated at 1.8 for non-Hispanic whites, 2.1 for blacks, and 3.0 for Hispanics. “This is the characteristic shape of developing countries,” The Economist commented in 2002. “As the bulge of Latinos enters peak child-bearing age in a decade or two, the Latino share of America's population will soar.”
It also helps to have the Catholic Church supporting the illegals. It legitimizes them and places them in a victim status. Cardinal McCarrick spoke at the rally, mostly in Spanish.
I strongly support securing our borders and enforcing our laws, but the Dems have framed the issue successfully, i.e., pro-immigrant versus anti-immigrant with the GOP being the anti-immigrant party. It remains to be seen how this translates into political power, but the GOP should not pander to the illegals regardless. The Dems will get all the "credit" anyway.
I think it is a big mistake for us to be devoting ourselves to organizing counter marches...ie reacting to them.
Until now, we have had the initiative.
We can still keep it, if we don't take their bait.
All of our efforts, IMO, should now be directed towards directing ever more pressure on the House and Senate to reject amnesty and to enforce the border and the laws.
IOW, we can do more good on the phones, faxes, emails, etc. than we can on the streets.