Day Without Immigrants to Hit Washington in the Stomach

NY Times ^ | February 15, 2017 | Richard Perez-Pena and Katie Rodgers

[C19fan]

In a city where expense account meals are a central part of power players’ lives, some of Washington’s best-known restaurants will close their doors on Thursday in solidarity with a national campaign to draw attention to the power and plight of immigrants.

The campaign, spread on social media and messaging apps, has called for a “day without immigrants.” It asks foreign-born people nationwide, regardless of legal status, not to go to work or go shopping in a demonstration of the importance of their labor and consumer spending to the United States’ economy.

[C19fan]

A day without traffic, a day without immigrant criminals,welfare leeches, and kids ruining public schools.

[LydiaLong]

Will they be avoiding emergency rooms as well?

[Paladin2]

OMG! NO K Street funded lunches for a day. A four year hiatus sounds about right.

[cloudmountain]

The foreign born must be asking the question: “Who’s gonna pay MY babysitter today?”

[Gaffer]

Oh gee. Just how WILL these DC government employees, politicians, lobbyists and media wonks ever get along without their food source for that interminably long day?

I’m just all beside myself about it - can’t sleep, eat or even watch TV. Like Slick said, “I feel your pain....”

Bwaaaaaaahhhhaaaaaaaa!!!

[FlingWingFlyer]

Just got back from downtown. Everything seems normal. Everybody is working and I saw no Mexican flags. Since America is a “nation of immigrants”, I expected everybody except the Native Americans to take the day off. This snowflake fiasco looks like an epic fail to me.

[freedumb2003]

The shrug heard ‘round the country.’

[\/\/ayne]

Will they be avoiding emergency rooms as well?

No, they'll be flooding them since they don't have to work.

[onedoug]

BFD

[Zuse]

Perhaps the fat slugs in DC will discover the mental clarity benefits of fasting.

[BradtotheBone]

Trump needs to make this day permanent.

[jeffc]

Won’t it just show how many jobs are being taken from real Americans?

[Pollster1]

How about a decade without illegal immigrants?

[momincombatboots]

Glad I didn’t have a drink of coffee while reading that one! Best Post!

[Rusty0604]

Will they avoid sending other people to emergency rooms?

[Daffynition]

Pass a big box of ...

[Doogle]

Now Pelosi can make house calls washing feet

[VanDeKoik]

Soooooooo.

The most this will affect anyone, would be like if it was Christmas?

[umgud]

Like we’re going negate the laws over this? Gimme a break.

[C19fan]

This country did fine when immigration was severely restricted after WW I to 1965.