Did their antics and the media attention given to them make Americans more aware of the problem and motivate them to demand that the government address the issue?
2007-12-14 05:34:49 · 25 answers · asked by Jeff F 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Immigration
To Robby R: If us vs. them refers to US citizens vs. illegal aliens then how can it not become us vs. them? Can we agree that we should obey the law and work to change it if we don't like it?
2007-12-14 05:57:07 · update #1
To Victor S: I'd love to answer you but you've blocked your email.
2007-12-14 08:23:36 · update #2
I believe it did their cause great harm. Especially all the hate talk and demands and everything anti- American. I could rant and rant on the multitude of examples of how they destroyed their mission.
The only good it did was to prove to the masses just how out of hand it had gotten and how something needed to be done NOW and to bring out the corruption of the business world etc. I mean people knew it, but it was something hard to prove......those marches left nothing to the imagination any longer.....people knew it was bad but many didn't know how bad and their actions and antics proved what citizens had been experiencing across this country.
2007-12-14 05:46:13 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 0⤋
What march? I saw no one marching. But if you say they marched I doubt it did any good. They have only basic human rights here nothing else. Which means we can not just shoot them or torcher them. The media normally has nothing on thats positive so I do not watch. I serious doubt that americans need more motivatation. The one's whom support them will continue to do so. Those who do not support illegals will not support them. The government will be the one's that must decide to take action, unless they wish lawlessness when the people take to the street.
2007-12-16 02:15:01 · answer #2 · answered by jeffery d 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Here in the Southwest, the first large protest marches with everyone carrying Mexican flags scared the bejeezuz out of everyone. So some pretty draconian laws got passed overwhelmingly in the next year or so.
They definitely hurt their cause here.
2007-12-14 15:58:05 · answer #3 · answered by Jim P 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
YES
many chose to march under a foreign flag and give speeches in Spanish. if they had marched under an American flag and spoke English and offered a compromise solution more legal aliens and citizens would have listened. the choice's made by those marching and those who organized caused a great bit of damage to their own cause. the extremest on each side of the debate cause a rational solution to be very hard to find.
American citizens must demand a realistic solution be implemented immediately, secure our borders before anything else, we must have bodies(law enforcement, troops, ICE, border patrol) on the borders to ever get them under control.
2007-12-14 14:12:20 · answer #4 · answered by michr 7 · 8⤊ 0⤋
yes. it happened a lot in phoenix & it's really angered the people of the state - ie prop 100 denies bail to an illegal who commits a crime, prop102, denies illegals the right to punitive damages in lawsuits, prop 103 english is the official language of the state, prop 300 denies illegals funding to social services, including college scolarships, also the employer saction law that's going to take place jan. 1 2008 where businesses will be punished for hiring an illegal.
2007-12-14 13:45:59 · answer #5 · answered by jack spicer 5 · 7⤊ 0⤋
More than anything that's happened recently.
Don't you think it would have hurt the causes of Americans, who felt they had a valid complaint about their host country, if they had done the thing in the streets of Mexico or El Salvador?
2007-12-14 14:58:00 · answer #6 · answered by Victor S 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, it helps us find them. Kind of like when terrorists march in the streets of the Middle East, I say we let them gather then drop a cluster bomb
2007-12-16 09:42:17 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It gets the legal citizens more madder and angry at them. In short when they do the legal citizens of this get more pissed about them getting special rights, while the citizens who are paying for them get ignored. It only hurts their cause, not help it.
2007-12-15 20:39:57 · answer #8 · answered by new name 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I believe so.... and what's so strange to me is how they expect us to deal with that total disrespect toward OUR country. And they wonder why why we don't like them..... duh..
Just always keep in mind that the majority of those protestors were in fact LEGAL Hispanic citizens of this country who support illegal immigration. Illegal immigrants are too scared to come out in public like that and protest... too afraid of getting deported. Just shows how Latinos (legal or not) truly feel about this situation (Invasion.)
2007-12-14 16:31:57 · answer #9 · answered by ▪ώhiteĝırl▪® 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
it probably made them more unwanted. i dont think illegals should be here because it is ILLEGAL. i think that if they want to come here they should do it legally. they are only hurting themsleves by not being legal and taking 25 cents an hour. if they got a legal job they could make minimum wage and get alot more money. persoanlly i have no problem with them as long as they are legal.
2007-12-14 13:42:19 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 1⤋