Posted on 04/12/2006 2:04:43 PM PDT by EnglishOnly
Immigration rights organizers today will call for a nationwide boycott of work, school and shopping on May 1 to protest congressional efforts to clamp down on illegal aliens as part of pending immigration-reform legislation. The "Great American Boycott of 2006" is only one in a series of large-scale events the protesters hope will sway lawmakers to put millions of illegal aliens on track toward permanent residency and U.S. citizenship. "The massive March 25 march and rally in Los Angeles of well over one million immigrant workers and their supporters -- along with protests and student walkouts throughout the United States -- is irrefutable evidence that a new civil rights and workers' rights movement is on the rise," said Raul Murillo, one of the key organizers and president of the Hermandad Mexicana Nacional. "In order to realize the goal of legalization for the millions of undocumented workers, we have the obligation to keep pressing the Congress of the United States to legislate immigration reform that grants full legalization for all immigrants."
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Just another excuse to get drunk the same week as Cinco de Mayo.
nothing like advertising where the illegals will be..hey, is Nagin using those buses yet?
Good day to shop.
What part of ILLEGAL does these crimmals not understand?
Oh No!!!
If there's a boycott on that day, I won't be able to order fast food or have someone mow my lawn!
What, oh what, am I going to do?!
(sarcasm off)
Well I wish they would just totally boycott the good ole USofA and get their beehinds back to Mexico!
That would be a boycott worth talking about, otherwise pfffffttttt!
I'm wondering just how long they think they can keep this up.
I read on a blog that a second "Gran Marcha" in L.A. attracted only 5,000.
Must be nice to blow off work.
And just think - illegals working in home construction will slow down by one day the addition of homes to already oversupplied markets. They might just help arrest the popping of the real estate bubble!
Big frickin deal--the American machine will keep on moving. Maybe I can go to Wal-Mart that day and actually have an enjoyable time shopping. No families of 10 munching on food they have no intention of paying for.
Hey, I doubt many will get a paid vacation - whereas when I used to protest Slick when he was in town for the day, I could take a personal day.
The illegals said they didn't work a few days ago, and I didn't notice a thing in an area rich with them. Big deal.
Hey, good point.
National shopping spree day for us impeialist capitalist pigs, yippie!!
The same part the MSM doesn't understand, and our congresscritters don't understand, and I fear large swathes of our countrymen don't understand...
susie
maybe they'll call a boycott of emergency rooms and other social services they take advantage of now
Boycott all they want. I'm starting a boycott of any and ALL businesses I seem some damned illegal working. Right alongside my pledge to find out the exact positions of any official running for office, and withhold my vote from any of them remotely shakey on the amnesty/pseudo-amnesty position.
A lot of lawns didn't get mowed. Big deal.
I predict the boycott will backfire. When businesses (save a few taco and spanish language music stores) report little or no change in volumn, we'll know exactly how little they "support the economy." But if it goes bad the MSM likely won't publish the information.
I've got a better idea...
Why don't we start boycotting businesses that employ illegals?
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