Anyone see any evidence of an actual immigrant boycott today?
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If there is a backlash, it probably will be against the demonstrators. Even before students began blocking the Los Angeles streets to protest legislation in Congress to toughen penalties for illegal immigrants and smugglers,\nMark Krikorian of the Center for Immigration Studies told me over the telephone, \n"I hope they keep doing it(PROTESTING). It just makes it less and less likely the Senate's going to pass any amnesty.\n\nhttp://www.realclearpolitics.com/article...\n\nThis Nation Has 300 MILLION Citizens That Shop And Buy Gas And Use The Banks\n\nThe "BOYCOTT" Of About 7-10 Million People Will Have A MINIMAL Impact On Our Economy If It Has ANY WHATSOEVER\n\nThe Latino Community Can BOYCOTT ALL They Like\nIt Will PROVE To The People That The Economy Will NOT Fail Without Their"CONTRIBUTIONS"\n\nPUSH HR4437-NO AMNESTY\n\nDEPORT ALL ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS UPON DISCOVERY
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Yes there is:\n\nGet involved with counter demonstrations by illegals:\nhttp://www.illegalimmigrantprotest.com\nContact your senators and congressmen by email:\nhttp://www.congress.org \n\nPetition:\nhttp://www.PetitionOnline.com/usavoice/\n\nThank you for being a true American.
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Youre Exactly Right\nThats Why This Hairbrained Scheme Is POINTLESS\n\nThe ILLEGAL Camp Continues To Lay Claim That WERE All Racists - When In Fact This Entire "BOYCOTT/PROTEST" Has Been Organized By, And Will Consist Of RACISTS Attempting To STRONGARM Our Government Into Granting Amnesty To ILLEGAL Aliens In Our Country\n\nThe Only Result To Come From This Endorsement \nCondoning ANARCHY And The Breaking Of Our Laws\nWill Be Violence In The Streets\n\nPeople Will Get Hurt That Day For NO REASON
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It's true I live in a rural area, but I was in Wal-Mart today and saw several Hispanic people shopping.  Of course I have no idea if they are illegals or not, and I know there are a lot of illegals in the area working for Tyson, for example, but the point is they were getting on with their lives.  Maybe in the major cities where people can get on national news it's different.\n\nAnd what's going to happen during the Cinco de Mayo celebration in the big cities, particularly in states that border Mexico?
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Isn't Backlash on April 30th?\n\nTNA's LOCKDOWN was on last night.  It was dumb.  Don't bother reading the results.
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The purpose of the protests is to show the power of the "immigrant community" by boycotting businesses and turning up for rallies in large numbers.\n\nThe organizers have done an excellent job of convincing a huge number of people that this is an anti-immigrant (legal and illegal) issue, not an illegal immigration issue.\n\nUnfortunately for the organizers, here in Southern California the only visible effect on the community at large was that rush hour was a breeze.  The freeways were as empty as if it had been a weekend.\n\nThe economic impact was mainly in the Hispanic communities as all of their businesses were shut down for the day.  Outside of that, they world moved on just fine.
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Yes I heard about it. All immigrants should suport it. According to the anti-immigrant people, "immigrants are a drain on society."  If this is true, then during the day on May 1st the stock market will surge, and the economy will boom.  If not, we prove them wrong once and for all.  We know what will happen!\n Don't listen to those people who said that they will go and buy more things on that day, if they said that it is because they know that it will affect the country!
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I won't, because I'm off work today!  And the business where I work won't be, because we have only those legally here, and citizens of this country as workers.  We also have customers who are citizens, because the price of our product is on a higher scale than other restaurants, and usually only the upper middle class eat where I work. As for impacting businesses today...I left work at 11:30 pm last night...went to WalMart to get a few things so I wouldn't have to go shopping on my offdays...and lo and behold...the place was PACKED with people (of other races) on a buying frenzy!  HMMMM....seems to me they just ruined today's boycott by buying the night before!  Now...you tell ME...how stupid is that? Given that most did that, or at least stocked up this past weekend so they won't have to shop today or tomorrow...they still gave the profit to the American businesses beforehand, making this weekend more profitable for the businesses than any normal Monday when most people don't do as much!  True?....
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Pointless. It'll be "just another manic Monday",get up take a shower, dress, grab a cup of coffee and a granola bar and go to work, late as usual. I'll get gas on my way home, grill some chicken out on the deck and chill out. That boycott won't affect anyone except the communities the illegals themselves live in. Sorta like shooting yourself in the foot. The Spanglish Anthem was just another nail in their coffin, May 1st will be their funeral. I'll sit back and watch it on TV and LMAO!! Great entertainment.
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Yes I am for massive deportation and Texas is taking the firsr step!!!!\n\nTexas lawmakers preparing for the next legislative session in January filed bills this week to block state assistance to illegal immigrants and their children and to tax money transfers to Mexico, according to the bills.
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Just another case of deaths that might not have been except for the illegal who caused it.  Remove illegals, reduce American deaths...have you seen this, my friend?\n\nhttp://www.house.gov/apps/list/hearing/ia05_king/col_20060505_bite.html\n\nOn May 1st, the activists who brought you thousands of Mexican flags flying in marches down the streets of our cities are now bringing you “Nothing Gringo Day”. With help from the Mexican government, Mexican unions, Mexican political groups, and through the Spanish language radio and newspapers, the call has gone out to make America experience a total boycott, both here and in Mexico. Talk about biting the hand that feeds you.\n\nJust the word “boycott” sparks the image of noble dissent in the face of economic or social oppression. I think of American colonials bucking British economic interests in retaliation to the Stamp Act. Or perhaps the ostracizing of Irish landlord Charles Boycott, the namesake of the verb for all tyrannized people. If not tyrannized, at least disgruntled. If not disgruntled, maybe just bored.\n\nYet, isn’t the key to a successful boycott an economic or social upper-hand? The cost must be felt if the offending party be forced to reform. For example, how does boycotting a movie you had no intention of going to affect the box office? More people probably see a boycotted movie due to the attention than if it had simply been ignored.\n\nPresident Carter thought he was on to something when he kept American athletes out of the 1980 Moscow Olympics. That showed ‘em. That particular boycott neither got the USSR out of Afghanistan nor brought down the Berlin Wall. It just caused our own athletes to suffer.\n\nThe May 1st anti-Gringo-fest is also being billed as “A Day Without Immigrants” which is a misnomer on a couple of counts. First, the threatened boycott fails to conjure the image of a Norwegian refusing to buy his May 1 lutefisk at the corner Fareway. Second, the pro-amnesty groups are insistent on confusing legal and illegal immigration. Let’s not start mixing our apples and oranges. The issue before Congress is illegal immigration. Perhaps the May 1st boycott should give America a glimpse into “A Day Without ILLEGAL Immigration.”\n\nWhat would that May 1st look like without illegal immigration? There would be no one to smuggle across our southern border the heroin, marijuana, cocaine, and methamphetamines that plague the United States, reducing the U.S. supply of meth that day by 80%. The lives of 12 U.S. citizens would be saved who otherwise die a violent death at the hands of murderous illegal aliens each day. Another 13 Americans would survive who are otherwise killed each day by uninsured drunk driving illegals. Our hospital emergency rooms would not be flooded with everything from gunshot wounds, to anchor babies, to imported diseases to hangnails, giving American citizens the day off from standing in line behind illegals. Eight American children would not suffer the horror as a victim of a sex crime.\n\nOn the negative side, the price of a pound of tomatoes might go up from $0.79 to $0.80. That is unless you have a garden. But I’m guessing that the Mexican drug lords are not taking May 1st off. Neither will the 11,000 illegal invaders that pour over our border every other day of the year. It is a safe bet that the U.S. Border Patrol will have a very busy “Nothing Gringo Day.”\n\nSince September 11th, it remains true that OBL is the greatest threat to America. I will leave it to the reader to decide if the greatest threat is Osama bin Laden or the Open Borders Lobby. The emerging cheap labor “ruling class” in America is the strongest supporter of amnesty for illegals. Their anti-American “new servant class” has chosen to boycott them; the very definition of irony. On May 1st, Primero de Mayo, Americans will observe, as illegal immigrants celebrate, “Bite the Hand That Feeds You Day.”
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To come here ILLEGALLY and then make demands is utterly presumptuous, especially if no attempt is being made to acclimate into our existing culture.   Would you expect anything OTHER than a backlash to that?  How rude!
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You wanna talk about politaly? I dont think boycotting our government is very polite.. Screw them.. WE ARE NOT IMMAGRANTS!! they are.. if the are LEGAL then more power to em.. if they are ILLEGAL then they can go home for all i care..GO USA!!!
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they removed one of mine yesterday.  it isn't prejudice but it is censorship.  they have vulgar questions and answers yet the removed ours.   we could boycott but then what would i do at work all day?  work-lol!
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I wasn't sure how I felt about the boycott but after seeing the number of people who are against it and the whole immigration mess, I believe it may very well be a valid way of getting a point across. I know most people say their major beef is with ILLEGAL immigrants, however, I feel that the majority of those illegals would much rather be legal. Our and their government makes it hard. If it were so easy to fill out papers and become legal people would do it. There are many roadblocks. In the meantime while red tape is being strung across every thing in the world, they still need to work and feed themselves and be able to have a normal life, therefore, their illegal status. I don't believe that the HR 4437 bill will be as easy as it sounds.\n\nI am Mexican, born and raised here by parents who were born and raised here. My grandparents were illegal immigrants who worked, paid taxes, paid their own medical bills and were not on any form of welfare. It took MANY YEARS for my grandfather to finally get a legal status and my grandmother barely got it about 3 yrs ago, which was shortly before she died. I dont speak Spanish, dont have a loyalty to Mexico and I love my country. However, I do not think sending them all back is the answer! When my daughter who is 1/2 mexican 1/2 white asked me about staying home from school I said no. Now though, I am changing my mind about it and I believe I will let the schools lose some money by not sending my 5 kids to school. Schools that I pay taxes to help support. If everyone did that, I believe it would show just a small sliver of what could happen. Problem is I don't think everyone will.\n\nAnyway, I think it's great they're trying to find their voice. Even though they're not officially members of our country, they are still members, whether people want to acknowledge that or not. For all the good they do I believe they've earned the right to be heard. There may be many people who will say they don't want them here anyway but the silent majority (business owners) know they don't want them to leave. If the wages of the avg. American worker are being brought down because Mexican nationals will accept lower wages, think what would happen if magically they all disappeared. Sure, the wages would go up but the companies that relied on staying in business due to being able to pay lower wages will go out of business. A LOT OF THEM! That would mean the unemployment rate would skyrocket. Lines full of American workers who no longer have a place to work. There is no easy answer to this situation. I do believe there should be a system of checks and balances so that not just anyone can come here, namely terrorists. However, the Mexicans coming here to work are not terrorists and even the $$ issue can't be completely valid because there are still and will always be WAY more of us(Americans) than there are of them!
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Source: \nImmigration Watchdog \nhttp://www.immigrationwatchdog.com/ \n\nOn March 17, 2006, an estimated 25,000 illegals from Ireland marched boldly in the St. Patrick's Day Parade in NY without fear of any enforcement of our immigration laws. I told my friends at the time: this unchecked in-your-face, "we demand respect" display by illegals will embolden them to demand they be given a free pass and when that doesn't happen, it will reach the point of violence.\n\nOn March 24, 2006, hundreds of high school students in LA walked out of their classrooms to protest the newest piece of completely unnecessary immigration legislation by the incompetent fools in Congress. Within hours 15,000 criminals (illegals) were marching in Phoenix and roughly 10,000 in Georgia. \n(Seems Fairly ORGANIZED) \nOn March 25, 2006, waving their Mexican flags chanting the same worn out "racist" garbage and demanding their "rights" 50,000 of these criminals marched in Denver, thousands in North Carolina and in Sacramento. All because the House of Representatives has passed legislation that would make it a felony to be in the U.S. illegally, impose new penalties on employers who hire illegal immigrants and erect fences along one-third of the U.S.-Mexican border                                               \n\n (AGAIN Seems  ORGANIZED-- On A NATIONAL Level)\n     ************************************************\n\nSent: Wednesday, April 05, 2006 7:35 PM \n\nSubject: VIDEO: HISPANICS ADMIT THEY ARE ENGAGED IN "CIVIL WAR" WITHIN THE UNITED STATES\n\nSource: \n\nImmigration Watchdog \n\nhttp://www.immigrationwatchdog.com/...\n\nThey openly state they have "The armor, the infantry and the artillery" to wage war here.This video PROVES beyond any doubt, the people marching in our streets under Mexican and other foreign flags, over pending immigration legislation, are engaged in a WAR against our nation.The U.S. Government has failed its duty to protect this land from these invaders; invaders who are openly stating they intend to takeover a portion of this land and carve out their own "Mestizo nation of Aztlan."\n\nClick below to play the video \n\n     http://tinyurl.com/pqzpe \n\nRead The Story-Watch The Video-You Decide
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I just got a email from a friend regarding Australia. They are having some immigrant Muslim problems. The radicals are getting out of hand. The government and citizen are dealing with it. One signs said" if you don't like our language, culture and laws get the hell out". \nA few years back they had a real Chinese illegal problem ships dumping of them. They dealt with it rather fast.They cut out chain immigration better now as family unification.\n\nThat is as much as I know on this new immigration anti terrorist issue, but I think that is about as much information that one will get. Most will probably be opinion depending on their side. I have no agenda.