Multi-City Immigration Protests

Protests are taking place in approximately 70 U.S. cities today, in response to H.R. 4437. Part of the House of Representatives resolution would classify all illegal immigrants as felons. They have all been non-violent, and legal immigrants & American-born relatives of immigrants are taking part, in addition to many illegals.

These marches follow up several marches that took place on Sunday.

What could be the largest nationally-organized protest ever could take place on May 1st of this year. Many Hispanic rights groups are planning a national economic boycott on what is commonly referred to as "May Day", in which they ask all Hispanics to stay home from work and not buy any items which are marked "Made in the USA", in an effort to show that, with out Hispanics, the U.S. economy will come to a standstill. Today's marches could be just a peek into what we may see on May 1st.

However, I doubt that the economy will shut down on May 1st, considering every product in the U.S. is manufactured overseas already. Also, how patriotic is it to try and shut down the U.S. economy? One day of that many people not showing up for work can send our economy into a freefall, of which could take months to fully recover. That's not good for anybody, natural-born citizens, legalized immigrants OR illegal aliens.

I would holeheartedly understand if this was something like revoking the 1986 amnesty act, but this in in defense of illegal immigrants. They didn't come here the right way; their not supposed to be in this country in the first place. All people who have either moved to the U.S. & became citizens, or those who have work visas, welcome to America. I doesn't bug me one bit that you're here. In fact, it's some of those who were born here I find irritating.

If you're an illegal immigrant, I recommend that you become a U.S. citizen. There's a lot of great perks to it. Just because you're not born here, doesn't mean you cant't be a citizen. I've heard the process isn't the funnest thing to go through, but in the end, it'll be worth it.

I know this sounds a little, dare I say it, conservative, but the law's the law.

-Adam
SOURCE: MSNBC.com