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...between the major factions in the immigration reform movement came into stark relief. The militant Great American Boycott organizers held a noon rally downtown for students and immigrant workers and their supporters who stayed away from school, work, restaurants and stores to dramatize the economic clout of immigrants. Their protest rally attracted large numbers, with many downtown small businesses shut down and major streets closed near city hall and the one-mile march route. Posters promoting the noon rally featured a stop sign printed with the words: "NO work; NO school; NO shopping; NO selling; STOP the RACIST Sensenbrenner Bill...
...Nativo Lopez, MAPA president was standing in the middle of a jam-packed Spring Street with marchers shouting in the background when he spoke to TIME.com. He said his group had to leave the main protest route along Broadway because, he said enthusiastically, "there were so many people, we couldn't move!" He dismissed worries that the boycotts would provoke a backlash against immigration reform. "We've been living with the backlash for years," he said. "But now people are losing their fear of organizing and exercising their constitutional rights so that the voice of the immigrants are being heard...
...coalition were disheartened to hear that Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa would be traveling to Dallas for NFL meetings, rather than participating in their afternoon march. Villaraigosa told TIME.com in March that he preferred to lobby for the McCain-Kennedy Senate bill on immigration reform rather than backing a May 1 protest that encouraged kids to miss school or adults to skip work. This weekend, he again urged youngsters to delay demonstrations until after school and asked those who chose to demonstrate to remain peaceful and to carry American flags. In the morning, Villaraigosa told TIME.com that he would monitor the demonstrations...
...protestors who turned out in major cities across the country on Monday clearly conveyed their message that immigrants are essential to the U.S. economy and deserve the right to continue living and working here. With rallies in more than 50 cities from Las Vegas to Miami, the day of protest brought together immigrants from all walks of life and appeared to overcome early concerns that rifts within the Latino community would hamper their success...
...take-no-prisoners approach to stanching immigration is the main reason for her popularity. Even so, for a Continent whose demographic growth depends increasingly on immigration, creating more obstacles for immigrants may bear heavy costs in the future. And demonstrators who gathered on the weekend in France to protest the new immigration law, and in Britain at London's Trafalgar Square for a concert to show solidarity against the ever-bolder presence of the British Nationalist Party (BNP), indicated that even as an electoral strategy, a crackdown on immigrants can be risky. What's remarkable about the recent posturing...