The huge scale of those protests -- including at least 500,000 people in Los Angeles -- was a departure from the past when fear of being deported made illegal immigrants reluctant to engage in public activism.
"What we are seeing in the streets is a naked assertion of power," Mark Krikorian, director of the Center for Immigration Studies in Washington, said. "This isn't really about immigration -- it's about power."
"This isn't really about immigration -- it's about power." Clearly.
So let's show em some power.
Were I the GOVERNATAH, I would encircle the L.A. march of 500,000 with every goddamned national guardsman, fix bayonets, load ammunition, and encapsulate that seething mass of Mejicanos.
Then, deputize every law-enforcement agent to be INS men, check for Greencards, and begin a forced march southward to Tiajuana.
Without "Evian" bottled water.
They're all El Presidente Binthente Foxth's citizens. Let HIM provide the water. He certainly provides criticism and complaints whenever one of his beloved sombreros gets pounded on.
Once that bedraggled, starved, Dorito-free crowd crosses the frontier, well, Guadalajara won't be a ghost town any more!!
Jurched