Americans can we all do this Negate The Boycott?
358681
They should apply for citizenship the legal way.  If you want to stay here then do it RIGHT or go home.\nThey take away our jobs (working for nothing).  I agree buy everything today!!!!!!!
450526
There is a way to stop it but Americans are too lazy to do it.  Look at how effective the united protests by the Mexicans were?  Americans have a propensity to just sit on their butts and complain without taking any action.  If millions gathered throughout the U.S. to protest illegal immigration, our politicians would take notice and do something fast.  Remember, there is an election coming, and politicians care more about votes than anything else.
690418
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.
597541
You need to get out of the support for the Democrats and Republicans. You need to look to parties that are not financially supported by multinational corporations. America has enough people, and enough consumers that it doesn't need to go overseas to manufacture goods cheaper and make bigger profits than ever.
348796
We are on the same page. People are making this a witch hunt and are forgetting who allowed this situation to get out of control. They are ignoring the ones that have benefited from exploiting cheap labor and making tons of money from poverty stricken illegals. Shame on American patriots!!
691023
What a great question!!\n\nOn the one hand, I think Americans have grown pretty cynical about the possibilities of change.  The system that has developed here is very adept at either co-opting real discontent or ignoring it -- take for example the huge protests before the invasion of Iraq.  Our government here doesn't try to repress or crush the opposition, it simply pretends that it's not there.  (Though some of us are beginning to wonder just how long that approach is going to last!)\n\nOn the other hand, most Americans are also aware, maybe only subconsciously, that they've got things pretty cushy, and rocking the boat could endanger their comfort.  I mean, hey, you got your ample supply of alcohol, your 500 channels of video-on-demand, and your vibrating armchair -- why would you want to revolt?
424490
yep, I've known that for years.\n\nOK dude, I've read two of your questions, and honestly, I'm getting sick of your attacks on Americans.  I don't know where you are from, but I do know that we probably do things differently than your country does. GET OVER IT!!!\n\nAnd this is a note to all of those who may read my answer: People who cannot accept those who are different should not be taken seriously.  please join me in boycotting questions that attack groups of people based on culture/race/religion/gender etc.  if we can silence people like that, the world will be a better place.
645804
"You know, I'm not a supporter of boycotts. I am a supporter of comprehensive immigration," Bush told a Rose Garden news conference, referring to efforts to reach an immigration deal with the US Congress.\n\nBush urged the protesters to show respect.\n\n"You know, I think it's very important for people, when they do express themselves, they continue to do so in a peaceful way, in a respectful way, respectful of ... how highly charged this debate can become," he said.\n\nImmigration has split Congress, the Republican Party and public opinion. Conservatives want the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants returned to Mexico and a fence built along the border.\n\nBush and others want a guest-worker program and a path to citizenship. Most agree some reform is needed to stem the flow of the poor to the world's biggest economy.\n\nBush said "most Americans agree that we've got to enforce our border" but that a temporary guest-worker program is needed as a way to get rid of an illegal smuggling network that brings people across the border and forges documents.
426945
Because they feel that they do really contribute to American society and that their contributions are being ignored when our government considers how to treat them. That's the idea behind the boycott--to show people in a concrete way how immigrants contribute.
446482
i am guessing that this boycott and its 'antiboycott' will both have little to no effect.\nvery few people will really know about it and fewer still will act on it.\ni'm not bothering for the same reason the "no gas day" was meaningless. whether you buy the day before or the day after, it still amounts to the same $$$.\n\nboycotts don't have much affect until greater numbers of people refuse to buy something from someone for a great amount of time .... days ... months ....
447665
What do you do when you want something from someone you can't beat up?  You kiss their as_s, right?\n\nWhat do you do when you want something from someone you can beat up?  You beat them up.  \n\nSo, they think they can intimidate us into giving them what they want.  Well, they're SORELY mistaken.  I'm fairly liberal, and I might have been cool about this, but they made a serious mistake when they started DEMANDING these things.\n\nAnd the lack of assimilation is ridiculous.  They're chanting things in Spanish that the citizens, those who vote for the freaking representatives and senators, can't understand.  This is extremely disrespectful.  They've won themselves over, but they've turned the rest of us away.
239759
It's "boycott" and not "boy caught."
527834
Maybe "Boycott"?\nhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0255851/
680409
Yes, I am.  But there's not much we can do about it.\n\nEveryone says boycotts won't work.  I'd like to think they would, but they won't.  Here's why:  Everyone boycott's Exxon.  Everyone else pumps more oil to meet demand.  Eventually, they won't be able to keep up, and gas will run out of stations before the next delivery arrives.\n\nEventually, everyone will have to go back to Exxon-providing station for gasoline.  Since everyone will be coming there, Exxon & the gas station will spike their prices, and everyone will be paying throught the 'you-know-what' for gasoline.\n\nYou may think that I'd take a long time, but a one month boycott could trigger these problems, considering the amount of oil the U.S. goes through daily.\n\nExxonMobil's $8.4 Billion is the HIGHEST EVER posted quarterly gain for an oil company, I believe.
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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.”
316971
Yes, Americans will allow Bush to do what he wants. The administration has succeeded in paralyzing many people into non-action. I recommend that you go here, and get invovled!\nBush is not,"We The People", but it is clear he doesn't care much what we think.\n\nhttp://www.thefourreasons.org/
340765
It is too bad that there are so many of you ignorant people out there answering these questions about the boycott today.  There are immigrants that do things the right way and others that don't, just like anybody else.  You can blame mexicans, italians, germans, etc. for whatever you want but there are many of white people that are doing wrong things just like anyone else is.  Something I heard a lady say this morning on the radio was that the immigrants are taking all the jobs with the benefits.  Instead of complaining why isn't her voice heard in positive ways instead of just talking sh!t...\n\n*To those of you who have previously answered this question, why do you complain about immigrants not knowing english when you yourselves don't even know how to spell correctly?  If you are going to talk sh!t then I suggest you atleast take a minute to spell check and read back your answer to yourself!