are you participating in tomorrow's " a day whithout immigrants " boycott.?
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I DID TODAY IN ALBUQUERQUE NEW MEXICO CAUSE I'M MEXICAN
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The only ones hurt by yesterday were the people protesting. All they did was lost a days wages. I know I will be not be eating at ANY of the restaurants that were closed yesterday, or going to any of the stores. My own personal boycott.
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Hayleylov for Prezidente'!! Forget Condi or Hillary - you get my vote! To all those answering against this, think about what the illegal immigrants and their supporters are proposing, and tell me why it's any different? Good for them to do it, but not for us? Hayley, it appears the ol' double standard has once again reared its ugly head! I'm with you, where do I sign?!\n\nAngi (below), in your question 4 days ago, you proudly proclaimed a boycott of everything on May 1st! Why is that different?
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What exactly are you looking to protest?
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Very simple, I fired 6 employees who took off to boycott, they were not "illegal" but they were hispanic and in favor of breaking the law. Maybe the Government wont do anything, But each business owner sure can. I already replaced the hispanics who went to boycott with Americans who were interested in working, took abt 30 minutes. I wonder how they will feel tomorrow morning when they find they have no job here.
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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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Statistics lie and liars use statistics.\n\nThe May Day boycott was "A Day Without Immigrants", not "A Day without Illegal Mexican Immigrants".  The people boycotting were both immigrants (legal and illegal) from all over the world and their supporters.  Their were many countries of origin represented, not just Mexico.\n\nNational retailers are not able to report on shoplifting stats in such a short amount of time: 10 days between the date of the boycott and the date of your posting is not enough time for individual retailers to perform inventory, file reports with their national office, and have the national offices report on their findings.  \n\nIf there was a 67.8% reduction in reported arrests for shoplifting on that day, then we should be thankful to our immigrants.  A reduction in arrests may be attributed to store security staff participating in the boycott.  So, the stores should be thankful for their immigrant supporting security staff that does such a wonderful job of catching shoplifters.  After all, when their immigrant supporting security staff are working, they catch 67.8% more shoplifters.\n\nAdditionally, by calling people "illegals" you are dehumanizing them.  This is similar to what has been done throughout history: people dehumanize groups of people to justify genocides.  The Germans, Austrians and Polish governments did it to the Jews; the Serbians did it to the Croations, the Tootsi's did it to the Hutus.  You are not the only one guilty of dehumanizing an entire group of people.  I just finally had to say something.  \n\nThe term "Illegals" is used to dehumanize immigrants to the United States of Mexican origin.  And, people will argue, "but they are illegal".  Many of them ARE legal, many are not.  But, we don't call Jaywalkers "illegals", even though they are doing something illegal.  Please refer to people who are here without proper paper work as "illegal immigrants" - this term is not dehumanizing.\n\n\n------------------\n\nAs for the other stats listed in the answers portion:\n\n1. 40% of all workers in L. A. County (L. A. County has 10 million people) are working for cash and not paying taxes. \n> Most eBay vendors don't pay taxes.  I didn't realize they were all in LA county.  Let's call all those eBayers who don't pay taxes "Illegals" too.  I love pulling statistical B.S. out of my tush.\n\n5. Nearly 25% of all inmates in California detention centers are Mexican nationals here illegally. \n> That's because they are arrested for being here illegally.\n\n6. Over 300,000 illegal aliens in Los Angeles County are living in garages. \n> So what?  Wait! I thought they were all on welfare and living in HUD housing. Which is it?\n\n7. The FBI reports half of all gang members in Los Angeles are most likely illegal aliens from south of the border. \n> "Most likely"... now that's a good one to quote!\n\n8. Nearly 60% of all occupants of HUD properties are illegal. \n> Boyfriends, girlfriends, ex-husbands, roommates and youth over 18, and cousins aren't allowed in HUD housing - they are all illegal.... though not necessarily illegal immigrants.\n\n10. In L. A. County 5.1 million people speak English. 3.9 million speak \nSpanish (10.2 million people in L. A. County). \n> This is such a silly stat: probably about 3M out of the 3.9M speak both English and Spanish, so do we have 4M people in LA who are deaf, dumb and mute and speak no language?  Your numbers don't add up.\n\nOver 70% of the United States annual population growth \n> If we didn't have immigration, the population of the US would actually be decreasing due to a low birth rate. Since the birth rate makes the population decrease, of course the increase is due to immigration (and people living longer) \n \n29% of inmates in federal prisons are illegal aliens. \n> Makes sense if illegal aliens are
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For all of you uneducated racists, oh excuse me, you say you are not, so I guess I have to believe you. The May 1st boycott is not trying to target ignorant people like yourselves, with less than high school education, and therefore cannot comprehend economics. It is targeted to large corporations, who at the end will influence the Senators making the decision. Go back to school!\n\nSo, take out your notebooks children, 42 million multiplied by 8 (expending) dollars, excluding School District funding... the answer is 336 Million dollars.\n\nThis is just ONE DAY. And this is not counting the amount of money that will not be produced for people NOT working.\n\nDo you still think it won't matter?\n\nOh, and before you start babling "we are 300 millions blah blah blah" it will only take 20 more senators to pass the bill, and in your beloved country, a million dollars is worth more than you and your entire family.\n\nGo back to school! Because you making 7-8 dllrs an hour has NOTHING to do with immigration!
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Are you a member of the National Front or similar organization - your question and past questions would suggest that indeed you are.  Are you trying to stir up hatred against immigrants........just wondering..........
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It would be better to boycott the American businesses who hire illegals.  While you're boycotting, write your local government officials and ask them to enforce the laws by fining these businesses, deporting the workers, and not taking bribes from lobbyists!
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I will probably go to my local Mexican cantina and whoop it up with my Mexican brothers and sisters, eat carne asada and drink Corona. It is a FIESTA!, anything but focus on the recent immigration debate, that can be done on another day.
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There was a boycott today? I must've missed it. ALL of my guys came into work, and the company did a gangbuster business day today. 14 hours of clients, contracts, and high end custom cars. God, I love my job, and all the men and women who work for me. I'd like to thank them all for their loyalty to the firm. Not to mention their paychecks, which would have disappeared like smoke on the wind had they not shown up. Even my 2 Japanese Americans and my Laotian (He is touched by the engineering gods) came in. And they all kicked butt as usual. Yep, at Southern Cross Customs, the boycott was a non-issue.
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Some of the people expressing their thoughts before me has forgotten where their ancestors were from and the ways they got to the USA. Others probably don't know thanks to whom they could eat a salad this morning that they paid a few cents for. A couple of them probably just said "bye bye" to the contractors they hired for a half of the market hour rate to remodel their house and finally could seat by the computer and criticize a little bit the immigrants. What can I say? God Bless America!\nPS: As a Polish legal, but a non-citizen US immigrant, I maybe should not even use my right to free speech here, since some of you said I don't have one. I'm sorry. It won't happen again.
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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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Ill be there. If people aren't willing to join this protest than they are lazy beyond repair or very, very sad!\n\nMy Girlfriend will love this one. We protest like this everyday....sometimes more than once. This kinda reminds me of Lennons "bed in for peace". He knew what he was doing. All they are saying is Give "O" a chance people!
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well the illegal immagrants arent paying any taxes and the government is saying that unless you want to be here legally, and pay taxes the you should leave. the boycott is showing the government that without the immagrants, we (the americans) would loose a bunch of money on that one day when they but nothing at all, skip school, skip work and any other "american activity"
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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!!!