[AOII_LB93]

Cardinal Mahoney is saying not to do it to the people of LA because boycotting isn't going to get anyone anywhere on this issue and it causes anger and mistrust. (his words not mine, there was an article about it on MSN earlier last week.)

I guess my question is, what about the rest of the people who come to this country illegally? This bill doesn't affect them? Why not try to get all the immigrants in on this and not just latinos? Granted immigrants of hispanic descent are the largest number in the country, but there are lots of others as well. How many people have come over here legally via an airport, stayed "on vacation" and then just never left?

The school where I teach was affected by the walkouts, though not much, only about 60 students did it and our school is about 35% hispanic with around 1900 students. Most of the students who walked out had little idea why they were doing it, and we just doing it because they wanted to miss class. Also the majority of the ones who walked aren't exactly upstanding students who tend to do well in their classes - quite honestly students who would have been better served to stay in school and attempt to learn about the issue in their history/social science classes as opposed to walking out and then marching to city hall with our principal in tow- he follwed because he knew if anyone got hurt, you know we'd be sued. What does city hall have to do with a federal bill?

Sticky issue...and one that will require some actual thought and true intelligent discussion if it is to be resolved in a reasonable manner.