http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060430/ap_ ... oycott_day

An expected crowd of 500,000 mexicans alone in LA will go on strike refusing to work and goto school that day. It reminds me of the the movie "A Day without a Mexican". 2 of my coworkers who happen to be hispanic will take the day off too and most of the fastfood restaurants wont open at all, maybe just the chinese and japanese restaurants taking business away
What I have been told the strike is to make people appreciate immigrants as a working force and without them, you can never get your produce and grocery done at all, your food ordered because no one else would take up the brunt of the work.
Man I want to be mexican just so I can take the day off as an excuse

I am not going to work or school. Only because I wasn't scheduled to work or go to school tomorrow.

Ugh, I'm the only one in my department working tomorrow.

Oh well. I won't get to share the doughuts I'm bringing then.

I so hope there won't be any rush hour traffic on the freeways tomorrow.

As a brown person, I sort of look Puerto Rican. Can I strike tomorrow?

Don't say things like that. Gordito the border hopping fairy might just make it come true.

tell them to start coming into the country legally, then i'll appreciate them as a work force.

Okay whitey, You're just lucky you came out of your mothers Vagina here and not in Kenya.

So are you saying that law breaking is morally acceptable as a way of attaining some sort of egalitariain principle?

Terminator could say the same to you, limey, as your lucky you came out of your mother's vagina in the UK instead of the United States, where immigration issues have been dealt with for centuries, rather than recent decades.

Im sorry what.
You know that the UK's immigration system is a mess don't you? And It has nothing whatsoever to do with the US immigration system or what my post implied? We have hardly had to deal with it for centuries, more like since the early 50s, and it only became a "problem" in the past 10 years with the medias obsession with telling us its wrong even though the British population is about to start falling.

Oh and for the part of your post that was actually relevant to what I had said: Yes, I encourage illegal immigration in situations where legal immigration is unfairly unattainable. Greed governs the system, not equality. So why should I support those laws when I have a drastically different ideology and I don't agree with them at all? They should be changed, and until they are changed - broken. People deserve the same opportunities I have. That is morally acceptable on my personal moral system. There are countless laws I think should be broken. It doesn't mean im some rogue vagabond, but rather that I don't believe all laws are acceptable when based upon ideals and principles that are not looking out for the greater good of all rather than a segment of the population.

My post pointed out that you have only dealt with immigration for the past few decades. Aren't democraticaly enacted laws by definition looking out "for the greater good" rather than "a segment of the population" (that being less than 50%)?

Rican's dont give a shit about the immigation thing(we already are u.s citizens by birth), and as i have it understanded, ricans in the u.s are lazy motherfuckers anyway who dont work(atleast most from what i hear).Here in PR we will go to work since thats all ricans ever do, all work no fun.

The way you had written your completely unrelated [I'm still not sure why you said it or what you're getting at] statement implied that the UK had been dealing with immigration for a much longer time.

Now that you say its the other way around, I have an even bigger problem with it. America is only 200 years old. How does that certify "centuries" of dealing with immigration if people were still settling last century? The idea that America is some kind of expert on handling immigration is a joke, one made clear by the social breakdown and two way racism going on across the west and south of the states.

Immigration laws look out for the countries born citizens. No one else. The majority of the country, yes. For the greater good as a whole? No. Who's going to take care of citizens of countries who cannot sustain them or do not care about them? The Western World? Fat chance For thousands of immigrants who enter the UK illegally, it's either getting into the UK or dying. Yet we still tell them no. Apparently we'd rather they die than give them the liberities we get through birth. Sure it all comes down to the tax paying thing, but thats a complicated matter that also needs to be addressed.

The majority of people let in legally to the United kingdom are people who are already in positions of stability with no real reason to relocate apart from to improve an already stable financial situation. A harsh generalisation perhaps but if you head on over the UK immigration site and fill in the "Are you Eligible" thing and you'll find the only people who are eligible are a very select band of people who can fully sustain themselves and have a solid history of doing so.

So we can all sit here and say "As long as they are legal" But when you think about the kind of people let into countries legally, saying " as long as they are legal" is like saying "As long as they are middle class, financially stable, preferably white and possibly married." Because if you don't tick those boxes, you're as good as dead.

I just dont believe it to be fair that we are allowed to act as though we deserve the life we live in just because we got a debatably good hand in a birth lottery. I could just have easily been born in Rwanda. Isn't it wrong that because I live in a country purely by chance I am given more opportunities and more importance than someone else just because they were not born here? That is what immigration, for me, boils down to. Giving people who have been born into unfortunate circumstances the same opportunities I have if they want them. Who the hell are Labour or the Republicans to tell people who should and shouldn't be given a chance to live like us.

It's not like the UK's population doesn't need immigration. We sure as bloody hell do.

it really pissed me off when people say all immigrants are mexicans, we might look the same but there not all from Mexico. Yes the majority are Mexicans, but the rest are from Central America.

At least the freeway drive this morning was a breeze.

Oh shut the fuck up.

Do you have any idea what it takes to immigrate legally?

Umm, I'm an immigrant, and I was born thousands of miles away from Mexico or Central America.

Breaking the law is morally acceptable when the law is morally unjust.

Krem, you are still an admin, right?

Well... I'm from Southeast Asia.

I'm not taking a day off just because I'm an immigrant, if that's what you mean.

Okay, it's just when people tell their users to shut the fuck up because they don't like what they have to say you can see how i'd get that impression.

I'm not allowed to voice my frustration with stupid arguments just because I'm an admin? News to me.

I tend to agree with that. My only problem is that under those guidelines anyone could claim any law to be unjust.

Only if you believe in moral relativism

I think he meant that we assume anyone Latino looking is from Mexico. Also, that our major backlash against immigration policy is primarily with Mexicans (for some random reason) in mind and not, say Ukrainians or Argentinians. Though, I've seen enough jingoistic antagonism to basically anyone from anywhere.

Nows as good a time as any to mention that the Mexican/American border is the most randomly drawn physical and sociological border. It really is. North America? Central America? and Latin America? Uhhhhhhh?