Since when did Mexicans work on May 1 anyway?
348142
Where I work, anyone not showing up on Monday, will not have a job on Tuesday.  I love it.  You want to live here and get all the American rights, act like one.  If not please go home.
949473
From my experience, most Mexicans work extremely hard for very little pay. I happen to work at the PHL airport where the workers are predominantly black, and also extremely lazy. Just to get the majority off their asses to do what they're paid to do is nearly impossible. The airport (specifically a certain airline) recently started hiring mexican workers and the entire operation has turned around. They know what work is, and don't sit around acting like the world owes them something.
650448
Hell, we got outside help in fighting the English for our independence.  One of my ancestors was a German with money who came over during the revolution and fought against the English.  After the war of independence, he decided to stay and married one of my direct ancestors who's family had already been in the colonies for 100 years. Sorry, I digress!\n\nSo you see, this help thing can work both ways. If you want off on Cinco De Mayo, you first have to get a Mexican to acknowledge they got help from the US against the French.   Do you think that's possible??? \n\nBoy, these Mexicans who still have jobs must have money to burn, if they can afford to take off work two days in one week, so they can attend their Mexican holidays.  I wonder if they will be waving the American flag to show their loyalty to the US on that day???
639666
i guess you don't know your MEXICAN HISTORY!\n\n\n\n\nThe 5th of May is not Mexican Independence Day, but it should be!Mexico declared its independence from mother Spain on midnight, the 15th of September, 1810.  And it took 11 years before the first Spanish soldiers were told and forced to leave Mexico. \n\nSo, why Cinco de Mayo?  And why should Americans savor this day as well?  Because 4,000 Mexican soldiers smashed the French and traitor Mexican army of 8,000 at Puebla, Mexico, 100 miles east of Mexico City on the morning of May 5, 1862. \n\nThe French had landed in Mexico (along with Spanish and English troops) five months earlier on the pretext of collecting Mexican debts from the newly elected government of democratic President (and Indian) Benito Juarez.  The English and Spanish quickly made deals and left.  The French, however, had different ideas. \n\nUnder Emperor Napoleon III, who detested the United States, the French came to stay.  They brought a Hapsburg prince with them to rule the new Mexican empire.  His name was Maximilian; his wife, Carolota.  Napoleon's French Army had not been defeated in 50 years, and it invaded Mexico with the finest modern equipment and with a newly reconstituted Foreign Legion.  The French were not afraid of anyone, especially since the United States was embroiled in its own Civil War. \n\nThe French Army left the port of Vera Cruz to attack Mexico City to the west, as the French assumed that the Mexicans would give up should their capital fall to the enemy -- as European countries traditionally did. \n\nUnder the command of Texas-born General Zaragosa, (and the cavalry under the command of Colonel Porfirio Diaz, later to be Mexico's president and dictator), the Mexicans awaited.  Brightly dressed French Dragoons led the enemy columns.  The Mexican Army was less stylish. \n\nGeneral Zaragosa ordered Colonel Diaz to take his cavalry, the best in the world, out to the French flanks.  In response, the French did a most stupid thing; they sent their cavalry off to chase Diaz and his men, who proceeded to butcher them.  The remaining French infantrymen charged the Mexican defenders through sloppy mud from a thunderstorm and through hundreds of head of stampeding cattle stirred up by Indians armed only with machetes. \n\nWhen the battle was over, many French were killed or wounded and their cavalry was being chased by Diaz' superb horsemen miles away.  The Mexicans had won a great victory that kept Napoleon III from supplying the confederate rebels for another year, allowing the United States to build the greatest army the world had ever seen.  This grand army smashed the Confederates at Gettysburg just 14 months after the battle of Puebla, essentially ending the Civil War. \n\nUnion forces were then rushed to the Texas/Mexican border under General Phil Sheridan, who made sure that the Mexicans got all the weapons and ammunition they needed to expel the French.  American soldiers were discharged with their uniforms and rifles if they promised to join the Mexican Army to fight the French.  The American Legion of Honor marched in the Victory Parade in Mexico, City. \n\nIt might be a historical stretch to credit the survival of the United States to those brave 4,000 Mexicans who faced an army twice as large in 1862.  But who knows? \n\nIn gratitude, thousands of Mexicans crossed the border after Pearl Harbor to join the U.S. Armed Forces.  As recently as the Persian Gulf War, Mexicans flooded American consulates with phone calls, trying to join up and fight another war for America. \n\nMexicans, you see, never forget who their friends are, and neither do Americans.  That's why Cinco de Mayo is such a party -- A party that celebrates freedom and liberty.  There are two ideals which Mexicans and Americans have fought shoulder to shoulder to protect, ever since the 5th of May, 1862.  VIVA! el CINCO DE MAYO!!
660861
I think it's because they generally don't know.  It's an easy mistake to make when you see Mexicans flying Mexican flags everywhere and having parties.  That's what people from the U.S. do on their independence day.
664716
I am going to boycott all things Mexican. Payback for May 1.
548307
Do you mean cinco de mayo?  It's when the Mexican army defeated the French at la Batalla de Puebla in 1862.
110198
Indeed, the mexican independence from Spain in 1820 got some inspiration upon french revolution. In 1821 got consummated. But practically speaking, semi or even fully slavery conditions continued in rural communities until the Mexican revolution took place (1910).
557348
The May 1st's protest were about the bill that congress is trying to pass about making it illegal to be in the US illegally. Thousands of Mexican protesters joined rallies around the country, even though the effects of the protest have not been seen yet. There have been many of the protest agianst this bill done in the recent months.
1120866
Has nothing to do with the war, and very little to do with stopping Mexicans because it won't!\n\nIt was a great diversion while it lasted.\n\nI noticed they didn't emplement the fines agains't thosw who hire them!!
542860
I was just about to post the same thing but you beat me too it! I guess great minds think alike!! I live in NY state and i saw no change. I even saw Mexicans here buying things, working, acting like nothing was new. No signs, No protesters, nothing. Business as usual here. Now i live in  trailer park, next to a gas station. And a lot of the population here is Hispanic and Mexican. I sat in my house and watch them go to the store, buy things, just act like nothing was wrong. If i didn't frequent Yahoo Answers then i would have never know about the marches yesterday. So I think that the "March" was poorly organized. It didn't reach every single aspect of our American lives or our city's. Like it was intended. And I thought that was the point? I know they marched in D.C., and New York City, and all the BIGGER city's in our country, but its the small city's that make up alot about this country. And we saw no effect. So i really wouldn't worry.. I don't think they accomplished much yesterday. Nothing at all.
574128
I think it's stupid and it amounts to bribery. Let's take a Wednesday off, mid-week and go vote. Every absolutely non-essential business just shut down and go vote. If the mexicans can march in our streets chanting for their rights then we need a work-day, a prominent work-day, to get out and vote. People celebrate the 4th of july, people will get out and vote on Voting Day. If we have one. Business has to make some room for civics. If they'll let foreigners skip work to go protest then by golly they can bite their lip and let actual citizens go VOTE.
329330
All immigrants, illegal or legal need to support this Boycott please, if you support immigration please help us out May 1st, don't attend to school, don't buy anything and many more things, basically, the economy of the US will go down for May 1st\n\nKeep your self up to date here:\nhttp://www.univision.com/content/content.jhtml?chid=3&cid=835090&schid=278&secid=12137\nhttp://www.univision.com/content/content.jhtml?cid=835090
414961
During the Battle of Puebla (May 5, 1862), invading French troops were repulsed there by a much smaller Mexican force under the command of General Ignacio Zaragoza; thereafter the city was renamed Puebla de Zaragoza, and May 5th (Cinco de Mayo) became a Mexican national holiday. The Serdan brothers of Puebla played a major role in initiating the Mexican Revolution in 1910.
569583
This was a flower sellers, it had nothing to do with telling the government that they suck.  Also, your details are incorrect also.  It should read "Why DON'T Mexicans protest their..."   So there ya go.
770079
Mexicans were here before anyone else.
662205
Assuming you are referring to May 1st by "May Day protest": Its origin is from 1889  when the international labour congress assembled in Paris, France, to establish the Second International, an international labour organisation(100 years since the French revolution). It was agreed to make May 1st as an international day for demonstrations to achieve better rights for workers. In this, the Second International succeeded, and it is noteworthy that the labour unions from the US proposed this in the first place!