Unabashedly Unhyphenated: A day without...???

Here are some snippets from news articles around the country regarding yesterday's "Day without a Latino" protests and walkouts:

The Georgia protesters proved not too bright.

Teodoro Maus, an organizer of the Georgia protest, estimated that as many as 80,000 Hispanics did not show up for work. About 200 converged on the steps of the Georgia Capitol, some wrapped in Mexican flags and holding signs reading: "Don't panic, we're Hispanic" and "We have a dream, too."
Yes, Teo, and wrapped in that Mexican flag, you prove your dream to be our nightmare.

And Ms. Garcia here is not exactly halogen either.

Jennifer Garcia worried what the proposal would do to her family. She said her husband is an illegal Mexican immigrant.

"If they send him back to Mexico, who's going to take care of them and me?" Garcia said of herself and her four children. "This is the United States. We need to come together and be a whole."
Jennifer, if your husband broke more laws and was sent to prison, he'd be similarly unavailable to you. Enforcing the law is just a part of "coming together to be whole." On the plus side, while you cannot stay with your husband in prison, you can take the whole family to live with him in Mexico.

You and your husband made some dumb choices. Don't feign surprise that they come with later consequences, you bimbo.

In LA things got a bit more "physical."

Chantal Mason, a sophomore at George Washington Preparatory High, said black students jumped Hispanic students as they left classes to protest a bill passed the House in December that would make it a felony to be in the U.S. illegally.
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"It was horrible, horrible," Mason said. "It's ridiculous that a bunch of black students would jump on Latinos like that, knowing they're trying to get their freedom."

Welcome to America's own "Little France," formerly known as Los Angeles. The only thing missing in L.A. was the burning cars. But it's still relatively early in this devolution into our having miniature versions of the Balkans all over the place. The bill these interlopers are upset about might prevent the Balkanization from continuing.

Methinks they dos't protest too much, eh babalooie?

Sometimes you just have to laugh at them.

It appeared many of the students had not read the bill and misinformation was spreading through the crowd. One student thought the bill would make it a crime to know an illegal immigrant or even a permanent resident. "Say if my grandma was a permanent resident, and I know her, we'd both be considered felons," said Daniel Perez.
Idiot.

Perfect commentary: this is American public education.

The protest took school administrators by surprise.
Of course, these are the same folks who don't want to have to "teach to the test." It used to be called "learning by rote." And it worked. Quite frankly, I have grave doubts about letting folks who are this clueless about what more than half of their student bodies are up to teaching my child anything that cannot be memorized. Leaving this sort of "educator" in charge of even the thinnest sliver of my child's mores or ideals is out of the question.

In Phoenix, the stupidity reached its zenith.

The turnout clogged major thoroughfares in what officials said was one of the largest protests in the city's history.

Remember, Juan and Juanita, it is always a smart thing to inconvenience and antagonize the people who are ambivalent to your presence. It makes them want you more!

What a bunch of maroons.

See what I mean...

"If the politicians do not keep the public opinion of the American public -- a majority of Americans want legalization for the undocumented population - - then we will then move on a national level toward a national economic boycott," Rodriguez said.

A "majority" isn't a majority if it only exists in your barrio, Jefe. Go ahead, make the big show. You're nailing your own coffins shut.

The only sanity I found in several articles I read on the day of protests was...

Supervisor Mike Antonovich, who supports Sensenbrenner's legislation, said the McCain-Kennedy plan is unfair to immigrants who are in America legally.

"The problem with that proposal is it rewards those who have broken the law and it is an impediment to those who have waited patiently to immigrate here legally and obtain a work permit," Antonovich said.

"If we're going to be a nation of the law, we have to reward those who are abiding by the law and not make exceptions," he said.