I was informed a family was coming from Denver, that waves of supporters were coming in from Houston and Tyler and that there were many outraged folks in DFW who would join me. I arrived at the spot at 10:35am and waited. Not one person was there by 11 am.
I stood up and picked up my signs and began walking back and forth on the sidewalk in front on City Hall. I got many honks and waves but by 1pm I still had not one supporter arrive. At 1:30 a mother and daughter pulled up in a Lexus and honked for me. They pulled over and came over to join me. As I was giving them signs to hold the mothers faced looked disgusted. It turns out she had misread my sign to say "Go Amnesty" instead of "No Amnesty". They said they were here for a rally to support illegal immigration. It seems that rally never happened. My heart dropped. By 3pm still not one person had arrived to help me like I had been informed of. Disheartened, tired and quite frankly bored, I picked up and returned home two hours earlier than I had wanted too.
Some Positives:
It seems that there are many impoverished hispanics who are actual American Citizens that are not in support of the illegals. They join the majority of the poor who sit in the park by city hall on park benches.
Other than some mentally disturbed guy who claimed he was rich an illegal from Haiti and the mother and daughter everyone else I spoke with was against what the Senate was doing.
I had nothing thrown at me, was not attacked. They only thing that hurt about this demonstration was that no one was there to join me. The mentally handicapped guy even asked me "if they can get 4,000 to gather here how do you think you will win with just one of you?" a valid point indeed.