MAY 1st, A DAY WITHOUT A MEXICAN
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Oh, and this is just a thought I had. If you (protestors) want to make your point and really make yourselves felt, your boycott will have to last MUCH longer than just one day. These people that you want to make your point to arent going to care about just 1 day. They can take that an brush it off like it never happened. Imagine if the Alabama Bus Boycott only lasted one day. You would still have black folks makin their way to the back of the bus whenever a white man got on because one day is not gonna make a difference.
...didn't say it did, champ...but if their coming here lured by employers and jobs, then that shouldn't make them felons, which is what the bill is all about...illegals? yes...criminals? ok, sure...but felons? that's shits just wrong, mayne...
Edit: ...and i'm coming home from gambling at like 1:30 in the morning, and there's a nice drive thru taco shop right off my freeway exit that was closed...i was heated...i think mannish has a point though, close shit like that for a week and it will really hurt...even little shit like that...
Edit: ...and i'm coming home from gambling at like 1:30 in the morning, and there's a nice drive thru taco shop right off my freeway exit that was closed...i was heated...i think mannish has a point though, close shit like that for a week and it will really hurt...even little shit like that...
...it was the first day of economic "boycotts" though, and it does have to be more than 1 day to be really effective...its one day later and everything seems back to normal...latinos have effectively boycotted grapes and Coors, but these are just single consumer products...pulling of a complete economic boycott takes a shitload of discipline, and I just don't see it happening unless they get the word out...
just because the boycott didnt hurt your pockets this ONE day....
doesnt mean..the Business or owners werent hurting.
I think overall ...most immigrants were trying to make a point to them because lets face it, Rich people run this country and I know they felt that ONE day much more than folks that just go about there business.
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That one day cost corporations hundreds of millions of dollars. Numerous corporations, construction sites, factories, etc. were forced to shut down. (Tyson Foods, the world’s largest meat producer, for example, shut down most all of its plants).
Regardless of the boycott impact, their voices were heard and that was the entire point. Politicians have taken notice of the massive movement that has taken place in every major US city and it seems unlikely that the new legislation will be made law as a result of the mass demonstrations. But if it does, expect even larger protests.
Regardless of the boycott impact, their voices were heard and that was the entire point. Politicians have taken notice of the massive movement that has taken place in every major US city and it seems unlikely that the new legislation will be made law as a result of the mass demonstrations. But if it does, expect even larger protests.
OK, so lets say I decide to sell crack to school children due to the "lure" of the money I'd be making, should I not be a felon just because I was enticed by the money? I know a lot of these people are honest hard working people, but if its worth coming here, isn't it worth coming legally? Hell, if they came legally they could at least get minimum wage instead of pickin grapes for75 cents an hour or whatever slave wage they are paying them.
My mother in law just got her sister legalized, shit it only took about 13 years, although they do have money in the bank that is not always the case...
Selling crack to kids is a little extreme, I break the law every day, I drive 75 mph every where, I download music, I download all kinds of programs, I J walk, one of my cars is too low, all these things take money out of some one's pockets... Now tell me you are for enforcing every single law out there? Or just the one that targets immigrants?
Selling crack to kids is a little extreme, I break the law every day, I drive 75 mph every where, I download music, I download all kinds of programs, I J walk, one of my cars is too low, all these things take money out of some one's pockets... Now tell me you are for enforcing every single law out there? Or just the one that targets immigrants?
...comparing selling crack to kids and crossing an imaginary line that has never been effectively enforced is a far stretch, champ...
...and I agree with you about 'coming here' legally...the process of becoming a citizen is just too easy to sidestep and there is no real mechanism to determine if immigrants want to stay and contribute...to much transiency in the immigrant population and they are getting fucked on wages...
...ps...i don't think you or anybody you know would ever pick grapes for minimum wage even...just a guess, i could be wrong...
...and I agree with you about 'coming here' legally...the process of becoming a citizen is just too easy to sidestep and there is no real mechanism to determine if immigrants want to stay and contribute...to much transiency in the immigrant population and they are getting fucked on wages...
...ps...i don't think you or anybody you know would ever pick grapes for minimum wage even...just a guess, i could be wrong...