To protest legislation in Congress concerning what to do with 12 million illegal aliens, thousands of immigrants, minority groups, and sympathizers marched the streets today in over 50 American cities.
Michelle Malkin and Bareknucklepolitics.com are carrying pictures of some of the festivities:
Expose the Left has posted what must be the beginning of the Apocalypse, with Ted Kennedy stating:
“I think the Star Spangled Banner ought to be sung in English. Period.”
Mark Stevenson from the Associated Press has reported this:
Thousands of Mexicans took to the streets Monday to support migrants in the United States and celebrated what they called a “Day Without Gringos” by shunning U.S.-owned supermarkets, fast-food restaurants and American goods. Measuring the boycott’s impact proved difficult, however, because business is normally reduced to a fraction of normal volume on Mexico’s May Day holiday.Some Mexicans vowed not to buy from or patronize any businesses related to the United States, while others said they found it difficult to avoid doing so.
Tom Tancredo, writing for National Review Online, communicates an excellent alternate viewpoint about what would happen if all illegal immigrants took the day off:
What would a day without illegal aliens really be like? Let’s try to imagine it.
On May 1, millions of illegal aliens working in meat-processing plants, construction, restaurants, hotels, and other “jobs Americans won’t do” are supposed to stay home from work to show the importance of their labor to our nation’s economy. Doubtless, there will be some inconvenience if that happens, but there is another side to the story that is not being reported.
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But if illegal aliens all took the day off and were truly invisible for one day, there would be some plusses along with the mild inconveniences.
Hospital emergency rooms across the southwest would have about 20-percent fewer patients, and there would be 183,000 fewer people in Colorado without health insurance.
OBGYN wards in Denver would have 24-percent fewer deliveries and Los Angeles’s maternity-ward deliveries would drop by 40 percent and maternity billings to Medi-Cal would drop by 66 percent.
Youth gangs would see their membership drop by 50 percent in many states, and in Phoenix, child-molestation cases would drop by 34 percent and auto theft by 40 percent.
In Durango, Colorado, and the Four Corners area and the surrounding Indian reservations, the methamphetamine epidemic would slow for one day, as the 90 percent of that drug now being brought in from Mexico was held in Albuquerque and Farmington a few hours longer. According to the sheriff of La Plata County, Colorado, meth is now being brought in by ordinary illegal aliens as well as professional drug dealers.