2:00 PM – KCAL 9 News
A sign reads "The Sleeping Giant Has Awaken." Rational and legal citizens, are you paying attention?
They actually spent a segment covering an anti-boycott group in Santa Ana. Most used intelligent arguments in the debate like "no amnesty" and "crackdown on employers that hire illegals." There was one lady holding a "Trust Jesus" sign though, so there can be crazy people on both sides of the debate.
Haha, a guy is standing in front of Home Depot to see if today had any impact on their day to day operations. It was "empty," but I guess he didn’t notice all the cars in the parking lots.
There is a protest group heading TOWARDS the U.S.-Mexican border! Could it be, are they actually going to leave on their own free will? I wish.
3:00 PM – KCAL 9 News
Paul Dandridge is reporting that the Mayor is supposed to speak before the rally starts. I wonder if he’ll be talking about cleaning toilets? The rally is supposed to start at 4 pm, but it could be starting early. Oh boy, I can’t wait!
A reporter in Oxnard is reporting with a crowd behind her, and a Mexican flag is filling up the entire background behind her.
A sign reads "It’s better to be on your feet than to live on your knees."
In Ventura Adrian Gaspar, a rally organizer, said "We gathered the whole community so we can protest for our rights. Up until now we’ve been exploited, and with these new laws coming in we’re gonna be even worse." You have the nerve to say that YOU have been exploited? What about every time an illegal takes advantage of social services that I pay for with MY taxes?
4:00 PM – KABC 7 Eyewitness News
Back to High Definition!
More signs. "We didn’t cross the border, the border crossed us."
Haha, the organizers passed out oranges when it got hot. I forgot about that important part of our economy: the orange seller!
They went to a group of Black people who had gathered to discuss the problem of finding a job when illegals will do the same work for $5 an hour. They best they could come up with is that amnesty would level the playing field. I keep hearing the thinking that amnesty will fix it and we can just go on our way. The problem is that amnesty doesn’t end anything if people can still run across the border without consequence!
Some signs from the Riverside protest read "We Are Everywhere!" What is he likening himself to, the plague, maybe an infestation?
Marc Brown found a crazy lady. "Put yourselves in our shoes, you wouldn’t like it. We’re here, we need to survive, we need to take care of our children. Turn the tables around, you wouldn’t like it." Marc Brown asks "What do you want to have happen now?" She replies "Legalization, get Bush out of here!" Marc Brown says "Wait, one of the things the President is asking for is a guest worker program. Is that what you want?" She then says "No that’s not we want. We need papers, legalization, and papers!" Brown says "People who are opposed to that say you would be getting in line in front of people who are here legally and have been through the process legally." Faced with this extremely difficult question requiring critical thinking, the woman can only reply with "It don’t matter. Everybody deserves a chance here!"
One guy said that "They forgot that they came from Europe and stole turkeys." I’m sorry sir, but I didn’t come from Europe. And again, more anti-white people sentiment. Who again is racist?
Another good sign that reads "Who are the REAL illegals? YOU stole our border!"
Some protestors threw eggs at people protesting the boycott.
