Posted on 05/01/2010 5:49:25 PM PDT by kristinn
Despite a coordinated hype campaign between left-wing pro-illegal immigration activists and the mainstream media, turnout was a bust at May Day marches in two bellwether American cities where crowds were much lower than expected. In Los Angeles, the turnout was a mere tenth of the half-million that marched there four years ago.
In a preview article published yestereday, Reuters said of the pending Los Angeles march:
Marches across the state on Saturday will show whether Latinos are energized. The standard will be the rallies in March 2006, when some 500,000 people took over downtown Los Angeles to oppose a tough federal bill that later failed.
The AP reported that police estimated the number of protesters in Los Angeles at 50,000, half of what was expected by organizers:
Police officials estimated about 50,000 demonstrators marched through downtown Los Angeles to demand immigration reform and to protest Arizona's tough new law against illegal immigrants.
Officer Rosario Herrera said the crowd peaked early Saturday afternoon and was estimated to have dwindled to about 30,000 by 2 p.m.
...Police had prepared for an anticipated 100,000 people.
In Dallas, where 100,000 were also expected to march, only 20,000 to 25,000 turned out, according to this AP report:
Organizers had estimated as many as 100,000 might attend the Dallas march. Police estimated between 20,000 and 25,000 gathered in the plaza outside City Hall. Organizers said thousands more participated in the march.
The May Day marches were already arranged by leftist groups across the country as a traditional communist day of agitation. The same leftist groups have been supporting amnesty for illegal aliens for years, making the marches the perfect fit for an instant nationwide protest against Arizona's new law targeting illegal aliens.
Respective turnout in the seventy other cities scheduled to have pro-illegal immigration marches today numbered in the high hundreds to well less than ten thousand, putting them well under the two million Tea Party protesters who demonstrated in cities and towns nationwide just two weeks ago on April 15th.
It appears that nationwide the pro-illegal immigration movement failed to match the 500,000 marchers they had in just one city, Los Angeles, four years ago.
LMAO!
I think yours is better!
Awwwww...couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of race-baiting criminals. See you all at the polls in November!
Then again, with no amnesty for them, I guess I won’t. :)
No doubt Whorealdo will say millions...
It is what the liberals have done to us.
Affirmative Action has created a myth that blacks can't compete.
Pandering to illegal aliens has created suspicions about everybody with a spanish last name or a Latino appearance.
We have got to get rid of this crap.
Interesting. all these demonstrations in major cities but... None in Arizona? I wonder why.
I read the excerpt kristinn, and I noted it was the AP. I told my wife “It’s the AP, so the crowd was probably more like 5000 rather than 50,000 as the AP would more than likely exaggerate.” She had been watching the news earlier in the evening, and she heard them state there were 10,000 at the event.
We are betting the figure of about 5,000 as pretty close to accurate knowing the leftist journalists penchant to exaggerate to favor the numbers for their sanctioned events.
The opposite naturally for turnout numbers for anything non Democrat, or non Leftist in nature.
I heard the MSM report on “record crowds” at the rallies....at 10 am this morning before many had even started-lol.
The Oil Spill sucked the air right out of the May Day rallies. Maybe they will have a day without a Mexican again.
“We have got to get rid of this crap.”
Texans and Californians have a lot, longer experience.
For many states it is fairly new. They notice a spanish surname in their midst and assume the person is an illegal immigrant.
Y E S
They had one in Arizona = http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2504687/posts
Sarah Palin draws a bigger crowd.
It’s possible that in the current environment many illegals may have been reluctant to expose themselves where they could have been easily rounded up.
Magnus BUMP.
Ping!
Amazing how some people don’t believe in laws.
Supposed to be 100K in Dallas. Only 25K showed. I guess the other 75K couldn’t get there after the pickup broke down.
...they must have gotten the word ICE was going to be filming today.......(didn’t know I had that range)
I stand corrected.
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