To what extent...

Brown Eyed Girl · Post by **Brown Eyed Girl** » May 2, 2006 1:39 am

How did it affect me? 2/3 of our students were absent today. Average class size was 10 students. I had 5 students all day. Sure it made for an easy day for me, but we're on the home stretch here, I need those kids in school so I can finish their assessments. For those kids who did show up to school it was a pretty easy day for them too, since most teachers aren't going to invest a lot of energy into teaching something that they will just have to reteach tomorrow when the rest of the class is there. And of course we're in the middle of state testing so that couldn't be completed with so many kids gone.

On the plus side, I stopped at the grocery store on the way home and didn't have to wait in line for the first time ever...almost every checkstand was open with no lines.

Lightning Bolt · Post by **Lightning Bolt** » May 2, 2006 2:02 am

**Here's a LIVE newsflash for those of you still here....**

Riot police are being mobilized from around the S.D. County to react to
ongoing demonstrations that are now (at11pm PDT), so we're told, erupting into
violence and vandalism in the Vista area. Failure to disperse.. rocks & bottles
Anyone else remember L.A. '92?

This is a city in the North County which has a large Latino population due to it location near the farmlands.

...oh, by the way I'm hearing Bird Flu has now arrived on U.S. shores

I gotta turn all this off

Brown Eyed Girl · Post by **Brown Eyed Girl** » May 2, 2006 2:20 am

Didn't see anything about the ongoing protest in Vista, but our news just showed the crowds on the strip in Vegas. At least that looked peaceful...hope they get the Vista folks under control.

As for the bird flu....YIKES.

TheSecretsInTheCrust · Post by **TheSecretsInTheCrust** » May 2, 2006 3:42 am

Lightning Bolt wrote:It's a helluva lot easier to be hard-line about this when you live up north

Try living in a southwestern city, where border security has been given the soft-sell for GENERATIONS.
As much as I agree with the general frustration that I read here,
I can see clearly (both out of my window and in my everyday life) how immigration and multi-cultural society ALREADY EXISTS in America,
and it WILL NOT BE SOLVED simply by saying "deport 'em all!"
It looked almost like a state holiday in Cali. There was a direct effect in the absence.

for once, George W. actually almost has the right read on this issue.

It just ain't cut and dry, secure our borders tomorrow...

The only way I was affected was that traffic was much less and I could understand the person in the drive-thru.

I agree with a work-permit situation. Maybe one that has the dangling incentive to become a LEGAL citizen in time. I also think its unrealistic to deport everyone not here legally. However, give this people a timeframe (say a year) to jump through those hoops to make themselves legal or then risk deporatation. Still the bleeding at the border must stop now. And from the said defined point in time, anyone here without the proper credentials needs to be considered, treated like a criminal. Its time to get ahold of our country and stop criminal immigration.

Tonight in Vista, ca (San Diego north county) riots broke out from a demonstration....sad

LIPH · Post by **LIPH** » May 2, 2006 9:04 am

I wasn't effected at all, I didn't even see any demonstrations here in NYC. I think there was one but it was supposed to start in Union Square (around 14th Street) and go downtown from there. I work on 49th Street and Penn Station is on 34th Street so I missed it.

One last point - I wish the media would stop using the politically correct term "undocumented workers" when they're talking about illegal immingrants. It makes it sound like people lost their wallets on the way to work.

ToplessRideFL · Post by **ToplessRideFL** » May 2, 2006 9:06 am

I have one comment..... If you are in this or any other country illegally, you have no rights.

ragtopW · Post by **ragtopW** » May 2, 2006 9:06 am

LIPH wrote:I wasn't effected at all, I didn't even see any demonstrations here in NYC. I think there was one but it was supposed to start in Union Square (around 14th Street) and go downtown from there. I work on 49th Street and Penn Station is on 34th Street so I missed it.

One last point - I wish the media would stop using the politically correct term "undocumented workers" when they're talking about illegal immingrants. It makes it sound like people lost their wallets on the way to work.

or that they can't find Kinkos..

RinglingRingling · Post by **RinglingRingling** » May 2, 2006 9:09 am

ToplessRideFL wrote:I have one comment..... If you are in this or any other country illegally, you have no rights.

not quite true... you have the basic human rights; you just do not have the same rights as a citizen.

Touch O Parrotdise · Post by **Touch O Parrotdise** » May 2, 2006 9:09 am

the only way it affected me was not to see them flooding the 7/11 parking lot..plus i didn't see them pee on the wall and leave there garbage all over the place..

rednekkPH · Post by **rednekkPH** » May 2, 2006 9:16 am

Man, we blew a golden opportunity here. We had hundreds of thousands of illegals all in one place...all we needed to do was toss a net on 'em and build a big-ass catapult.

SchoolGirlHeart · Post by **SchoolGirlHeart** » May 2, 2006 9:18 am

rednekkPH wrote:Man, we blew a golden opportunity here. We had hundreds of thousands of illegals all in one place...all we needed to do was toss a net on 'em and build a big-ass catapult.

There's that warm and fuzzy Frankie we all know and love...

rednekkPH · Post by **rednekkPH** » May 2, 2006 9:26 am

SchoolGirlHeart wrote:
rednekkPH wrote:Man, we blew a golden opportunity here. We had hundreds of thousands of illegals all in one place...all we needed to do was toss a net on 'em and build a big-ass catapult.
There's that warm and fuzzy Frankie we all know and love...

IrishG · Post by **IrishG** » May 2, 2006 9:57 am

AlbatrossFlyer wrote:i'm proud to say my family created this country..... and the so called native americans aren't natives they just immigrated earlier...

Ditto. My mom is big into genealogy. Our Irish ancestors migrated to America in the late 1600's

buffettbride · Post by **buffettbride** » May 2, 2006 10:05 am

Closed down a major thoroughfare through downtown Denver during the lunch hour, plus as everyone dissipated it had the other downtown streets all hosed up, too.

bravedave · Post by **bravedave** » May 2, 2006 10:27 am

rednekkPH wrote:Man, we blew a golden opportunity here. We had hundreds of thousands of illegals all in one place...all we needed to do was toss a net on 'em and build a big-ass catapult.

No way, man.

It would never work. Those leaf-blower thingies would just blow the net back on you.

rednekkPH · Post by **rednekkPH** » May 2, 2006 10:45 am

bravedave wrote:
rednekkPH wrote:Man, we blew a golden opportunity here. We had hundreds of thousands of illegals all in one place...all we needed to do was toss a net on 'em and build a big-ass catapult.
No way, man.

It would never work. Those leaf-blower thingies would just blow the net back on you.

True, but yesterday was "we ain't gonna work day", so I doubt they had the tools of their trade with them.

pbans · Post by **pbans** » May 2, 2006 11:24 am

We happened to be staying at a casino in Mesquite, Nevada yesterday....it was a mess without over half of their workers. We went in to the coffee shop and I think there were four waitresses for the whole thing.....our server got a very nice tip....she was working her ass off.

buffettbride · Post by **buffettbride** » May 2, 2006 11:25 am

pbans wrote:We happened to be staying at a casino in Mesquite, Nevada yesterday....

My sister used to work at a casino in Mesquite.

pbans · Post by **pbans** » May 2, 2006 2:03 pm

buffettbride wrote:
pbans wrote:We happened to be staying at a casino in Mesquite, Nevada yesterday....
My sister used to work at a casino in Mesquite.

We were at the Virgin River.....I really like Mesquite!

buffettbride · Post by **buffettbride** » May 2, 2006 2:05 pm

pbans wrote:
buffettbride wrote:
pbans wrote:We happened to be staying at a casino in Mesquite, Nevada yesterday....
My sister used to work at a casino in Mesquite.
We were at the Virgin River.....I really like Mesquite!

I don't remember what it was called. It was a resort-casino thing. It's on the left side of the highway as you are driving toward Vegas. It was AGES ago, I was only 17 I think. She works at the Bellagio now as a craps dealer.