Backlash at May Day illegal alien protest closures. (A week without customers!) vanity

[lsjogren]

Those immigration raids sound good.


So long as Bush doesn't have his amnesty in the bag, he is liable to do a little enforcement of the immigration laws.

If he ever got the amnesty, enforcement would shut down.

[zeugma]

Lots of rumors floating around. Watch the illegal invaders panic! Unfortunately, anything the government is doing right now is just a catch and release program for show.

[newcthem]

How about on Cinco de Mayo, all Americans block to entrances to welfare offices, drivers license offices, emergency rooms, etc. ( and of course Home Depot)

[Pan_Yans Wife]

So, I should be discriminated against and unable to get my labwork done in the hospital because of a silly boycott?

[stopem]

LOL PEFECT idea!

Yea a day without illegal aliens!!!!
FOREVER without illegal aliens better yet!
Illegal alien fatigue!

[VOATNOW1]

We can boycott them forever. How long can they boycott us? Too many politicians take money from businesses that hire illegals. This is why politicians do nothing about the problem. We can send them a message that they all understand; NO BUSINESS = NO MONEY = NO POLITICAL DONATIONS.

[TheSpottedOwl]

Good comments on here. I've already chosen not to participate in Cinco De Mayo, or go to a Mexican restaurant.

[Ptaz]

Interesting. So is this: how about a reverse boycott? On May 1st, stores put up a big sign: "NO MEXICANS TODAY"

That might get you into court with a discrimination suit.

[Serenissima Venezia]

A week without illegal aliens and they started it? I think I would like my citizens a little brighter.

LOL!

[mountainlyons]

I will have the American flag and mu support the vets for May 5th. What is this stinko do mayo stuff? It can't be American.

[uglybiker]

...they'll be no more vacations south of the Mexican border either!

Unless you want to spend some of that vacation time down on the border with the Minute Men.

[SeaBiscuit]

Stinko De Mao Alert!

[Let's Roll]

We need to all shop, eat out etc. on May 1.

I plan to hit Wal-Mart. With so many illegals staying away, it should be empty. Just hope there's someone to take my money :-).

[kellynla]

the operative word was "south"...

being "on" the border with the Minutemen is an entirely different issue...

[Elyse]

I'm a little concerned about the Mexican restaurant boycott. Some Mexican restaurants are owned by Americans and they don't hire illegal aliens. If you do have a favorite Mexican restaurant that you go to, I would suggest talking to the owner and finding out some facts before you hurt a legitimate business owner.

[TheSpottedOwl]

Well Cinco De Mayo has been celebrated by darn near everyone for years. It's an excuse to eat delicious food, suck down tequila, and crank up mariachi music. You know, like St. Patrick's Day. Everyone's Irish.

[mountainlyons]

What are the German and Cherokee national holidays?

[TheSpottedOwl]

Oktoberfest! Hoooorah! My bad ;-D

I don't know about the Cherokee national holiday. My kids descend from the Iroquois Nation on their father's side. Don't know any holidays on their side. I'd guess and say Harvest Moon. Their whole tradition has been totally screwed up to the point, where we'd have to ask an anthropologist.

[chrysalischild]

I wanted to go to Wal Mart, the mall, etc. that day to counteract some of the damage conceived that day but couldn't get out until after 5:00. I wanted to take a drive and note what businesses in my area were closed, as well. I live in a city which is predominately Hispanic. I really felt outnumbered here. Unfortunately, it all doesn't seem as much about immigration as it does about the overwhelming push of the Mexican flag and Spanish language. Not the people, but that aspect of the people causes me to want to take up residence elsewhere where there is a better even mixture of people with different native backgrounds, but I have thought that if all of us who are really American and wave only the American flag, if any flag, and speak English were to do this, it would be like giving Mexico a border city piece of America to claim as an extension of Mexico. I have found myself wishing that we could somehow bring lots of Americans who speak English and do not wave the Mexican flag here to dilute the Spanish Mexican stuff here for the over all sake of America, no matter what background country is represented by such Americans that have united under the American flag and the English language. If not a material wall put up along the borders, at least a large population of human Americans protecting our borders from those who seemingly want not to become Americans, but wish to expand their Mexico. I love Mexican people as human beings, I do not like any of them pushing the Mexican language and flag down America's throat. Americans could not do such in Mexico. I feel that those who do so here should not be addressed with some sort of pity because they have worked in this country, too, but haven't been given the citizenship they have tried to steal. If they want to become citizens, then let them agree to become true American citizens and put away that Mexican flag and not push Spanish at us. I don't dislike the Spanish language or the Mexican flag in themselves. I do dislike the imposition upon America. I feel like these people are guilty of some sort of treason if they consider themselves American or claim they want to be American but wave that Mexican flag. I wonder why those of us who wish to protect our traditional America have not found a way to show them our numbers in the streets? No, we have to be quiet, or as someone here said, be called racists? Seems to me with all the insistance upon Spanish being used and that flag being waved....they are the racists.

[chrysalischild]

Pinko hey? What is wrong with being pale in color with blush in the skin? It isn't a negative any more than being brown or black? As for your living examples of why cousins shouldn't marry cousins stuff...that's racist stuff against whites that may have been true of some, but certainly not all. I know that there are some Mexicans who have thought nothing of the father-daughter thing (and cousin thing, too), but we wouldn't want to spread that kind of stigma around, would we? So, why don't you stop with the Pinko thing. I think all of America should drop of the color thing, period, and any attention given to race if we are to be truly united. But, one thing is for sure...there is a strong issue in the air over the flag and language of this united country of immigrants with many background countries.
Anyone waving a flag not American is being unAmerican and racist. Is this really what this day without immigrants really about? Mexican power?