Illegal Alien Day of Action

I know, this is off the stated topic for the next few days, but driving to work this morning really got me ticked off. Today is supposedly a "Day of Action" to protest the House Resolution and to make the "demands of the [illegal] immigrant known to our [sic] representatives." I added the commentary because it was difficult to dodge San Diego morning traffic and keep complete quotes in my head, so I remembered the context so you would get a flavor for what I heard. Don't these people know they won this round? Congress is in recess (where I think it should be placed permanently so the rest of us can get on with our lives) without passing ANYTHING! Nothing has changed. No one has been made a felon, no one is getting deported, no firms hiring illegal aliens are being singled out for braking the law... NOTHING IS DIFFERENT THAN IT WAS LAST WEEK, LAST MONTH, OR LAST YEAR! Don't these people know how a law is enacted in this country? Sheesh! OF course, in America we seem to no longer think, only feel, so it is more important to make your opponents feel badly about their position than it is to actually make them think about it.

I listened to the Bill Handel Show (not the most conservative of morning shows) and what I heard was disturbing. What amazed me was an article they discussed from the L. A. Times talking about the effects of the illegal alien situation upon Black America and how many within that community are losing out on entry level jobs to illegals. One person in the article said they were not hired because the hiring manager at the fast food restaurant told the person he couldn't use him if he didn't speak Spanish. I then flipped to CNN Headline news (actually KASH 1700 which does stock market and financial news in the afternoons in San Diego) only to hear the following conversation between reporters, one in studio and one at a protest:

Reporter 1 (in the studio): Has anyone there said that there was a proposal in Washington they could live with?

Peporter 2 (at the protest): No, they have said that none of the proposals are acceptable... They say that what they want are their representatives to listen to their demands. They say that they know the only avenue they have to representation is through the immigrants who are here legally...

Excuse me... those that are here legally, that are CITIZENS, have representatives. What right do they think they have to representation?

Just one more thing of note... this weekend I actually heard a speak at a protest say "You [sic] know who was the first illegal immigrants to the United States? The pilgrims, that's who." The crowd cheered, either not realizing the stupidity of that remark... or they didn't care because it made them feel good. And in case you don't know what's wrong with that statement, stop and think... first, you can't be illegal without there being a law to break and second, which came first, the pilgrims or the United States.

God help us all.