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Immigrant Boycott's Impact Less on Sales Than on Debate
Washington Post ^
| August 31, 2007
| Pamela Constable
Posted on 08/31/2007 6:22:32 AM PDT by 3AngelaD
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The Washington Post can't bring itself to write the accurate headline: "Boycott a flop, illegal immigrant activists a laughingstock." No, instead we have "contradictory emotions."
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posted on
08/31/2007 6:22:35 AM PDT
by
3AngelaD
To: 3AngelaD
I suspect all those businesses who put up signs supporting the boycott have taken a greater financial hit than those boycotted. But that side of the story certainly wouldn’t be told by this paper.
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posted on
08/31/2007 6:30:30 AM PDT
by
Teflonic
To: 3AngelaD
Soooooo....”Not One Damn Peso Week” was nothing but a burrito fart in the wind?
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posted on
08/31/2007 6:33:07 AM PDT
by
NRA1995
(To Congress and Mr. President: This is OUR country, and don't you forget it!)
To: All
Demonstrates the real lack of economic power illegals and their supporters have. Obviously this is not the Montgomery bus boycott of the 50’s.
I think the “contradictory emotions” are being felt by the leftist globalist newspaper.....the boycott doesnt work, but they cant slam too much the business, who are advertisers....there is the “Conflicting emotions”
And Mr Juarez and his group are racists....can you imagine an organization called “Whites Without Borders”
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posted on
08/31/2007 6:35:39 AM PDT
by
UCFRoadWarrior
(FantasyCollegeBlitz.com)
To: 3AngelaD
File this one under "duh."
By definition, illegals earn far less in wages than legals. They also send much of what they do earn back to their home countries. This means they never had any real economic power in the USA anyway, and their not spending their meager amount of disposable income won't hurt anyone.
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posted on
08/31/2007 6:37:02 AM PDT
by
pnh102
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posted on
08/31/2007 6:39:54 AM PDT
by
bcsco
("The American Indians found out what happens when you don't control immigration.")
To: 3AngelaD
"My father always told me, when you visit a house, you have to follow the rules of the house," said Oscar Alfaro, 30, a legal immigrant from El Salvador, who was eating at a Burger King in Manassas. Welcome to the U.S. Mr. Alfaro.
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posted on
08/31/2007 6:44:44 AM PDT
by
Graybeard58
(Remember and pray for SSgt. Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
To: 3AngelaD
"Some established Latino immigrants, for example, say they sympathize with illegal newcomers but fear the boycott will provoke hostility."Oh, no sh!t?
These "established Latino immigrants," would they be legal or illegal?
And did the WaPo consider interviewing non-Latino, legal immigrants for this article?
I wonder what THEY would say?
Hey, wait a minute, I'm a non-Latino descendant of legal immigrants, and I can tell you what I'd say...
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posted on
08/31/2007 6:48:02 AM PDT
by
Redbob
To: 3AngelaD
Help Save Manassas
http://helpsavemanassas.org/index.php
“Help Save Manassas is the largest chapter within the HelpSaveVirginia network, and joins over 600 residents in the greater Manassas area including Prince William County, the City of Manassas Park and the City of Manassas together in a grassroots organization...”
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posted on
08/31/2007 6:50:40 AM PDT
by
Redbob
To: 3AngelaD
I wish they could stage an effective boycott and announce the date. That way I could shop without getting mowed down by Spanish-speaking patrons pushing heavily-laden shopping carts with 4 young’uns in tote, and the lines would be SO much shorter! I say we support this one
To: UCFRoadWarrior
“Obviously this is not the Montgomery bus boycott of the 50s.” No it is not. The civil rights movement called on our better angels. WE felt we owed the black Americans redress. What do we owe invaders from other countries? Nothing.
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posted on
08/31/2007 6:58:41 AM PDT
by
ClaireSolt
(Have you have gotten mixed up in a mish-masher?)
To: 3AngelaD
“The bad ones cause prejudice against the good,” he added. “My tools have been stolen three times from my van, and it was done by Hispanics. When I came here, you could leave your door open at night. Now, it is getting more violent like the countries we left.”
Something all the open borders nuts need to consider, but they probably won’t; immigrants turning areas of the US into what they left behind.
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posted on
08/31/2007 7:24:59 AM PDT
by
Will88
To: ClaireSolt
No it is not. The civil rights movement called on our better angels. WE felt we owed the black Americans redress. What do we owe invaders from other countries? Nothing. Be careful, Claire, you'll be accused of not being 'compassionate'.
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posted on
08/31/2007 7:29:01 AM PDT
by
AuntB
(" It takes more than walking across the border to be an American." Duncan Hunter)
To: 3AngelaD
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posted on
08/31/2007 7:34:04 AM PDT
by
Guenevere
(Duncan Hunter...President '08)
To: 3AngelaD
Ricardo Juarez, who heads a group called Mexicans Without Borders, has denounced as "racist" the county resolution,which would deny services to illegal immigrants and allow police to turn them over to federal authorities.
A country without borders.....you know the rest.
And how many times do I have to repeat "Illegal Alien Is Not a RACE". These people are so ignorant.
To: Battle of Tours
I wish they could stage an effective boycott and announce the date. That way I could shop without getting mowed down by Spanish-speaking patrons pushing heavily-laden shopping carts with 4 younguns in tote, and the lines would be SO much shorter!
I really enjoy May 1st in CA - the day the illegals decided to boycott the last 2 years. It almost feels like being in the U.S. again to go into a store and hear English, have people being polite and smiling, and merchandise is actually on the shelves instead of thrown on the floor!
To: 3AngelaD
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posted on
08/31/2007 8:51:01 AM PDT
by
VOA
To: Will88
The bad ones cause prejudice against the good, he added. My tools have been stolen three times from my van, and it was done by Hispanics. When I came here, you could leave your door open at night. Now, it is getting more violent like the countries we left.
This legal immigrant is obviously more intelligent than most. He sees the big picture and the problems that are coming. He sees that he will be lumped in with all South American legal immigrants (I reserve the word immigrant for those here legally) and illegals and will be judged on that basis. It's not fair to him, but what else can people do unless he wears a T-shirt saying that he's here legally? It's only going to get worse.
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To: 3AngelaD
In a hardware store, the non-Hispanic co-owner said he had a "strictly neutral" position on the boycott and the county resolution that provoked it, adding that the issue was a "tough, tough fence" to straddle. Why are people so afraid to say someone is white? They sure have no problem identifying other races, unless it's bad, and then they refuse to identify their race!! I just don't get what the stigma of being white is? I've been white all of my life and I've never had a problem with it. It's really OK to be white. LOL!
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posted on
08/31/2007 9:22:22 AM PDT
by
NRA2BFree
("The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves!")
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