Day without Immigrants

[Boiler 47,495]

http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/15/politics/washington-dc-day-without-immigrants/index.html

 

Could not work out if that also means I should not post on VJ?

[Teddy B 17,252]

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Immigrants and supporters were planning to strike Thursday in a protest loosely organized by social media and word of mouth. The goal is to demonstrate the importance of immigrants to society, as the Trump administration continues to pursue hard-line enforcement policies that advocates fear will disrupt communities and the economy.

In a country founded by immigrants, was their importance ever really in question? Some people are trying awfully hard to blurr that line between legal immigrants and illegal immigrants.

[smilesammich 10,727]

4 minutes ago, Teddy B said:

In a country founded by immigrants, was their importance ever really in question? Some people are trying awfully hard to blurr that line between legal immigrants and illegal immigrants.

i think it's only going to be effective for immigrants from one of the 7 banned countries, the point is to see the impact of those people disappearing from our day to day existence (as trump would like).

[Teddy B 17,252]

14 minutes ago, smilesammich said:

i think it's only going to be effective for immigrants from one of the 7 banned countries, the point is to see the impact of those people disappearing from our day to day existence (as trump would like).

I just don't see it being effective, if anything it could be counterproductive and quite possibly employment suicide for some of these folks not going to work.

Edited February 16, 2017 by Teddy B

[CaliCat 3,957]

Just now, Teddy B said:

I just don't see it being effective, if anything it could be counterproductive and quite possibly employment suicide for some of these folks not going to work.

 

 

Considering we are all immigrants in one way or another, we're talking about a general strike.

[Teddy B 17,252]

Just now, CaliCat said:

 

 

Considering we are all immigrants in one way or another, we're talking about a general strike.

Except most people aren't participating.

[yuna628 9,873]

Sorry hubby can't take off, he's got important work to do and bills to pay.

[smilesammich 10,727]

1 hour ago, Teddy B said:

I just don't see it being effective, if anything it could be counterproductive and quite possibly employment suicide for some of these folks not going to work.

they probably thought if they had a protest similar to the bodega shut down in ny a few weeks back, with more preparation/broader participation, they'd get even more impressive results. problem is, a few weeks back ice wasn't raiding like mad and hanging out in front of churches/schools and detaining folks even with legal presence. people got scared real quick.

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

what if the Millions of people on the public dole not working, got of the public dole and did those jobs. I know low information thinkers say" they are doing jobs Americans dont want"

 

Heck I got a job I don't want, but I get bills. Let those tummy's get hungry. They will go wash dishes 

 

 

[smilesammich 10,727]

21 minutes ago, Nature Boy Flair said:

what if the Millions of people on the public dole not working, got of the public dole and did those jobs. I know low information thinkers say" they are doing jobs Americans dont want"

 

Heck I got a job I don't want, but I get bills. Let those tummy's get hungry. They will go wash dishes 

 

 

what are you talking about and are you trump's press conference understudy?

[eieio 1,594]

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Celebrity chef José Andrés, who is locked in a lawsuit with President Donald Trump for pulling his restaurant from the Trump hotel project in Washington over Trump's anti-undocumented immigrant rhetoric, announced he would close most of his restaurants Thursday as part of the protest.

 

 

What a moron. He will close most , but not all. He is soooooo committed to the cause a few will remain open.  Will he pay his employees for a forced day off on his closed store? Will he go socialist and make the employees who work that day, share their wages, with the ones who don't?

 

No wonder Trump got rid of him. He is an idiot.