No Takebacks: Illegal Aliens Fret They've Gone a Protest Too Far

"Organizers of the movement that has led hundreds of thousands of immigrants onto the nation's streets are split over whether to press ahead with the next big protest _ a May 1 national work stoppage and student boycott. Backers of the protest want to dramatize the importance of immigrants to the U.S. economy by leaving construction sites and restaurants undermanned, crops untended and hotel rooms uncleaned. They also hope empty classrooms will demonstrate that immigration reform is a major issue for future voters," the AP reports. "But others fear such protests will make immigrants look anti-American, annoy the public and alienate lawmakers who are still wavering over how to reshape U.S. immigration policy. They worry, too, that thousands will get fired from their jobs. Encouraging youngsters to skip school 'just adds fuel to the argument that we don't care about our children's education,' said Jose Lagos, a community organizer with Honduran Unity in Miami."

[FAIR comment: The divide here is between the Marxist groups providing much of the organizing muscle for these protests and the other ethnic and corporate lobbies being taken along for the ride. See this wikipedia entry for some background on Marxist-syndicalist labor organizer George Sorel and his theory of the "myth of the general strike". Also see the reviews of his book "Reflections on Violence" on Amazon.com. One of the leading organizers of the May Day protest, i.e. the ANSWER coalition of front organizations, is still using the playbook developed by the turn of the century Marxist labor organizers like Sorel.]

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