May 02, 2010

Smaller than expected crowds for pro-illegal immigration protests

Clarice Feldman

Despite the media's predictions that rage at the Arizona statute enforcing the federal immigration law would up the numbers of marchers demanding free entry and citizenship, the rallies were quite small.

In 2006, the crowd estimate in Los Angeles http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN302523720100430 was 500,000. This year the number who showed up was estimated at one-tenth that number, 50,000 http://www.kcra.com/news/23355374/detail.html

San Diego garnered about 1,000 protestors. http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010 ... ation-law/

Fox reports "hundreds" showed up in Washington, D.C .http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN302523720100430

No rallies were anticipated in Atlanta. http://www.nowpublic.com/may_day_immigr ... nationwide

In Chicago, where activists turned out to protest the Arizona Diamondbacks baseball team at a game this week, tens of thousands of marchers turned out. In the Boston area, some 2,000 people marched in favor of legalizing undocumented migrants http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN0117693920100501

In Phoenix , AP reports the crowd was "small but vocal". http://www.kold.com/Global/story.asp?S=12410114

Wikipedia reports that in 2006 "millions" showed up around the country to demand amnesty. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Unite ... m_protests

Why the fizzle? I think it's because no matter that the Democrats pretended to take up this issue now in Congress, it was so a transparent an effort to gin up support for the November elections that it didn't fool the illegal aliens (or most anyone) into thinking this was a serious effort.

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