The ultimate justice would be if they had the hubris to declare secession from The Union, then they get turned into granola 48 hours later. They can go spoon off their bag-handler Kofi Annan for relief aid.
Posted on 04/27/2006 5:47:53 PM PDT by calcowgirl
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Some Democratic state lawmakers are planning to walk off the job Monday - just as millions of others around the country are expected to - in support of immigrants' rights.
The Democratic-controlled Senate, on a party-line vote, approved a resolution supporting the May 1 "Great American Boycott 2006," which supporters say will serve as a warning to Congress to avoid punitive immigration reform.
Organizers believe the boycott, in which large numbers of students also are expected to participate, will show just how vital immigrants are to America's major cities and the nation's economy.
"These immigrants are fighting to embrace this nation," said Sen. Richard Alarcon, D-Van Nuys. "What a good time this is when people can express their anger, their frustration, desires, hopes and dreams, all for the purpose of becoming American. That's a good thing."
Republicans voted unanimously against the resolution, saying it encourages lawlessness.
"The Legislature should not be encouraging students to leave school," said Southern California Sen. Dave Cox. "And, it's irresponsible to recommend to people they leave their jobs, especially when many can lose those jobs, whether they obtained them illegally or not."
Earlier this week, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, an immigrant from Austria, implored people to avoid the boycott.
"There are only downsides," he said. "It's bad for workers because some of them will get fired. It's bad for people who they work for because they will not have the workers scheduled to do the job. And it's bad for children if they don't go to school. The way you show that you can become a great contribution to this country and state is by going to school and being responsible."
The resolution to support the boycott isn't supported by all Democrats. Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez, D-Los Angeles, called on immigrants to stay on the job unless they get their employers' permission, and for children to stay in school. He refused to take up the Senate resolution, and allowed his chambers' own resolution, which would have called on Congress to support immigrants' rights, to die.
Still, Nunez plans on flying down to Los Angeles to take part in marches, after he checks in at the Assembly Monday morning. Members are supposed to be at the Capitol on session days, which are Mondays and Thursdays.
"When you're with thousands of your constituents and you're talking about the very issues at the forefront of their concerns," said Steve Maviglio, Nunez's deputy chief of staff, "I think you're being an effective legislator."
Dick Ackerman, the Senate Republican minority leader from Tustin, said lawmakers should set an example by showing up to work.
"They should be prepared to do the state's work," he said. "A boycott is not taking care of the state's work."
Sen. Tom Torlakson, D-Antioch, voted in favor of the resolution, but called on parents to urge their children to stay in school.
Teachers should use the boycott as a way to "discuss the value, the history, the conflicts and the enrichment of our society that has come about with the waves of immigration in our time," said Torlakson, a former educator. "But we should also urge students to stay in school to underscore the value of education and use it as an opportunity to learn in a school setting."
But, Sen. Gloria Romero, D-Los Angeles, who authored the resolution, said the boycott will be part of history that will one day be recounted in classrooms across the country.
"It's one day out of 365, out of their lives," she said, "for immigrants to peacefully tell the country that we matter, we want justice."
Rallies are planned for Monday in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Sacramento, San Jose, Oakland, Concord and other cities.
The gall of these bastards is just breathtaking. What part of ILLEGAL is unclear?!!
".....(who can't vote in the US)..."
This is not a fact in evidence.
The Mexican's are not going to have to fight to take back California. The democrats are going to hand it to them.
Let's all refer to this exactly what it is - an invasion of one country by another. The citizens of the US won't get up off their dead a$$ anymore and fight for the country that we founded and built? These illegal, contrary to their stated claim, did not build America.
Earlier this week, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, an immigrant from Austria, implored people to avoid the boycott.Why should they? They not only get rewarded by breaking our rules and laws by getting jobs illegally and their children's schooling paid for off the backs of legal citizens', they get amnesty, to boot."There are only downsides," he said......The way you show that you can become a great contribution to this country and state is by going to school and being responsible."
Totally Un-American but not surprised...afterall, "it's California"!!
Good I hope they keep up their boycott indefinitely. I'm looking for work soon and would like to make a wage that is not depressed by a labor surplus.
I think a resolution like this should be brought up for vote in the US House and Senate.
You just know they'd pass it too!
“the Gringos who favor tighter border security are racist."
Talk about the pot calling the kettle black, isn't "Gringo" considered a derogatory and racist term?
Whats new.
The reason California is so screwed up is because of the Democrat party.
The party that hates the military and ridicules traditional America would be expected to show their lack of being a patriot.
The ultimate justice would be if they had the hubris to declare secession from The Union, then they get turned into granola 48 hours later. They can go spoon off their bag-handler Kofi Annan for relief aid.
There's another group that noone will be sorry if they don't come back ...
"....you won't believe the party I'm throwing when a few fault lines snap like dry spaghetti and move the coast inland several miles."
You shouldn't hold it in like that ...
How do you really feel about us Cal-e-fornians ?
This whole boycott is going to be nothing more than wasted opportunity. At every single one of the demonstration sights and protest rallies, the demonstrators need to be herded together and have their identities checked. Those here illegally could then be detained and deported. It wouldn't get rid of all the illegals, but it would sure get rid of a large percentage of them, at least until they swam back across the Rio Grande.
They sure have an unusual way of showing it.
No kidding. this is absurd. they should go ahead and shut down cities & businesses. That will make them a whole lot of allies.Really, the arrogance and lack of gratefulness to a nation that has given them so much is beyond sickening.
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