Immigrants boycott themselves.

I just found this out the hard way in my journey for chorizo and homemade pork rinds. All of little Mexico was on lock down and apparently it was voluntary as I found out when giving an Italian mom and pop shop cash for pesto instead. People have gone from shooting themselves in the foot to shooting themselves in the face.

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-...mmigrants-promises-a-national-strike-thursday

In cities around America, thousands of construction companies, restaurants and other businesses are bracing for "A Day Without Immigrants," a combination boycott/strike that highlights the contributions of immigrants to U.S. business and culture.

The movement is a response to President Trump's immigration agenda, which includes a pledge to seal the U.S. border with Mexico and a travel ban on citizens of seven majority-Muslim countries (which is now on hold).

Some businesses are closing for the day; others are staying open and pledging to contribute a share of the day's proceeds to nonprofits that aid Latino communities. In a number of cases, business owners are abiding by their staffs' wishes, after holding votes to decide whether to open.


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Chef José Andrés To Close Restaurants For The 'Day Without Immigrants'
Several closures are high-profile: chef and entrepreneur José Andrés told NPR this week, "It was a very easy decision" to close his restaurants in Washington, D.C., saying he wants to support his employees who had planned not to work Thursday.

Celebrity chef Rick Bayless, who's famous for popularizing the complex flavors of Mexico's cuisine, says he closed four Chicago restaurants for the day out of respect for his staff's vote.

From Los Angeles, Danielle Karson reports for our Newscast unit:

"Thousands of immigrants are skipping work; not shopping; not eating at restaurants, buying gas, or sending their children to school. LA County Supervisor Hilda Solis says immigrants, regardless of legal status, contribute 40 percent of LA County's gross domestic product: almost $300 billion a year.

" 'It's incumbent on us to be brave, which we're prepared to do,' Solis said. 'To step up; to say to him, not in my house; not in my county; not in my state.'"

As NPR has reported, the Department of Homeland Security has called those raids routine, saying they targeted people who had criminal convictions.

In Charlotte, N.C., teacher Hayley Rowley tweeted an image of empty desks in her classroom "as over half my class stays home," she wrote.

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More than 250 businesses in the Charlotte region are closed today, member station WFAE reports.

In Kansas City, Mo., protesters spilled off of the steps of City Hall and into a plaza — one of many cities where public rallies are being held today. According to member station KCUR's Laura Ziegler, hundreds of people in Kansas City chanted "USA! USA!" in support of immigrants.

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In Washington, D.C., at least two schools are closed for the day. And Ahmad Erfani, who was born in Iran and grew up in France, says he's closing his bakery, Le Caprice.

"Mostly the people who work here are immigrants. We spoke with them, they thought it's good for solidarity with the others to not work," he tells member station WAMU.

Erfani added, "They are hard workers. I am not happy when I see they are not very happy these days, because it is difficult. They work hard, they come here six in the morning. It is not very comfortable for us."

The Day Without Immigrants comes more than 10 years after another national movement, the Great American Boycott, used a May 1 boycott to protest the Illegal Immigration Control Act of 2005.

That legislation, also called HR 4437, would have required hundreds of miles of new fencing to be built along the Mexican border, along with toughening the federal stance toward people who are in the country illegally — and toward anyone in the U.S. who offers them shelter or aid. The bill won passage in the House of Representatives before failing in the Senate.

 

[Broseph Stalin]

More work and $$$ for us, then.

 

[AnOminous]

The people responsible for shit like the 40 hour work week and minimum wage and shit like that were the people who did strikes, protested and got downright ugly sometimes from the 1890s or so into the 1930s. They got their fucking heads bashed in by Pinkertons, shut down entire industries for months at a time, and often went without food for weeks. And would beat the shit out of anyone fool enough to cross a strike line.

So really, anyone who thinks it's too tough to lose a day's wages over something they believe in is kind of a giant pussy.

At least they're willing to do something, although I suspect there really isn't any efficacy in doing something unless you actually can shut down shit that matters for a serious length of time.

I do hope that any business owners who do this, if their employees aren't down with it, also have the balls to pay their employees who they're costing a day of work.

The problem with this whole thing is it's a general strike, but without the general part. Unless you really do shut down the fucking country, as they used to do in France from time to time, where's the effect? Most people are just going to say "the taco truck isn't here? Oh well, I'll just get a hot dog instead."

 

[Oh Long Johnson]

This strike today was the biggest bag of idiocy I've seen this year. It isn't even the lack of effectiveness that gets me. I simply do not understand the complaint.

If you go back a ways and take a look at illegal immigration from Mexico, it was on a pretty good incline, year after year. Once in a while, the White House or Congress would do something to fix the incremental increase and it would either work a little or not at all. People who don't live around the border do not really see the giant money-suck, or the economic danger that unrestrained entries from Mexico represent. I think Reagan or some other Presidential hopeful had an undocumented housekeeper and it caused endless drama for a while. Then, I think it was Clinton's White House that changed the rule book on undocumented workers and fined the holy fuck out of anyone caught. The fear of that fine basically put a yoke on the Mexican border and things have stayed fairly level for a long time.

Before that fine, INS or ICE could go into any restaurant in the country and harvest illegals. Once the penalty became prohibitive, Spanish might still be the language of the kitchen but those guys have papers now. People are still crossing the border but with nothing for them here, at least there's an incentive to go back willingly.

So, my problem is, if we need to have a day of solidarity for the illegals, why is that, exactly? The immigration rules are specifically set up to de-incentivize giving these people work. And it wasn't Trump or Obeem or Bush that set it up that way. Unless you are going on strike, to petition the US government to eliminate fines against persons or companies hiring illegals, you are accomplishing nothing. And the only people striking are documented aliens.

So, this is just a big, brown jerk off, right?

 

[DragoonSierra]

Is this like Senior Skip Day? You know the day that supposedly exists but you still get punished for not showing up by getting a 0 on that test you missed

 

[Varg Did Nothing Wrong]

So, my problem is, if we need to have a day of solidarity for the illegals, why is that, exactly? The immigration rules are specifically set up to de-incentivize giving these people work. And it wasn't Trump or Obeem or Bush that set it up that way. Unless you are going on strike, to petition the US government to eliminate fines against persons or companies hiring illegals, you are accomplishing nothing. And the only people striking are documented aliens.

So, this is just a big, brown jerk off, right?

You are asking for logic and reason in the land of fee-fees.

Why do you think there's any sense behind this?

It's emotional and nothing more.

 

[ICametoLurk]

Is this like Senior Skip Day? You know the day that supposedly exists but you still get punished for not showing up by getting a 0 on that test you missed

Yeah but this time with your job.

 

[AnOminous]

It isn't even the lack of effectiveness that gets me

Why not? That's the only thing that matters to me. It's just pointless and dumb.

If it were actually effective, would you still complain?

Oh I just thought of something. Obama was President just a few weeks ago. Do you know what President was responsible for more deportations in the history of deportation? If you guessed "Obama" you're right. Something well over 2.5 million deportations.

Where the fuck were these strikers while Obama was deporting record numbers of people?

But suddenly because there's now a Republican orange-haired faggot fuckwad piece of shit as President, you're suddenly interested?

Where were you fuckers the last eight years?

 

[DICKPICSRUS]

Is this like Senior Skip Day? You know the day that supposedly exists but you still get punished for not showing up by getting a 0 on that test you missed

yes this is called
Señor skip day

 

[The Great Chandler]

As a Hispanic, I find this ineffective and stupid. Even my immigrant Mexican dad decided to go to work knowing how apathetic Trump would be. What happened to calling your lawmakers?

 

[cuddle striker]

The people responsible for shit like the 40 hour work week and minimum wage and shit like that were the people who did strikes, protested and got downright ugly sometimes from the 1890s or so into the 1930s. They got their fucking heads bashed in by Pinkertons, shut down entire industries for months at a time, and often went without food for weeks. And would beat the shit out of anyone fool enough to cross a strike line.

So really, anyone who thinks it's too tough to lose a day's wages over something they believe in is kind of a giant pussy.

At least they're willing to do something, although I suspect there really isn't any efficacy in doing something unless you actually can shut down shit that matters for a serious length of time.

I do hope that any business owners who do this, if their employees aren't down with it, also have the balls to pay their employees who they're costing a day of work.

The problem with this whole thing is it's a general strike, but without the general part. Unless you really do shut down the fucking country, as they used to do in France from time to time, where's the effect? Most people are just going to say "the taco truck isn't here? Oh well, I'll just get a hot dog instead."

minor power level: I grew up in coal mining country. strikes are war.
this is not an actual strike. I think general strikes can work, but they've got to be organized around a single demand and one that spans every field of work that's necessary.

"end right-to-work laws" is a singular, valid thing that applies to most workers and spans enough of a variety of jobs that it could feasibly be a compelling reason for a general strike that would be effective.

immigration laws are unrelated to worker's rights in that- it's illegal to hire undocumented workers. was this a strike to permit that? no.
it was too generalized, unorganized, and without a single demand that could be negotiated or met.

people shot Pinkertons, beat scabs to a pulp, starved and died for the IWW and the miner's unions. they were serious.

 

[Absolutego]

Why not? That's the only thing that matters to me. It's just pointless and dumb.

If it were actually effective, would you still complain?

Oh I just thought of something. Obama was President just a few weeks ago. Do you know what President was responsible for more deportations in the history of deportation? If you guessed "Obama" you're right. Something well over 2.5 million deportations.

Where the fuck were these strikers while Obama was deporting record numbers of people?

But suddenly because there's now a Republican orange-haired faggot fuckwad piece of shit as President, you're suddenly interested?

Where were you fuckers the last eight years?

Wasn't his huge number of deportations in part due to his administration counting turning people away at the border as a deportation?

 

[over and over]

One time when I was a teenager I hacked a starbucks' netgear router to put a password on it so only my friends and I could use it. Forgot what the password was but there's still a deserted starbucks next to my grocery store. All they have to do is reset their router. I guess I stuck it to them.

 

[RI 360]

One time when I was a teenager I hacked a starbucks' netgear router to put a password on it so only my friends and I could use it. Forgot what the password was but there's still a deserted starbucks next to my grocery store. All they have to do is reset their router. I guess I stuck it to them.

1. No one gives a shit
2. You're a douche.

 

[melty]

One time when I was a teenager I hacked a starbucks' netgear router to put a password on it so only my friends and I could use it. Forgot what the password was but there's still a deserted starbucks next to my grocery store. All they have to do is reset their router. I guess I stuck it to them.

Was the password "password"?

 

[over and over]

Was the password "password"?

yes.

 

[Broseph Stalin]

One time when I was a teenager I hacked a starbucks' netgear router to put a password on it so only my friends and I could use it. Forgot what the password was but there's still a deserted starbucks next to my grocery store. All they have to do is reset their router. I guess I stuck it to them.

Nigger what the fuck does this have to do with illegal brown people being exceptional?

 

[AnOminous]

minor power level: I grew up in coal mining country. strikes are war.

Full agreement.

I would sooner suck a dick than cross a strike line.

(Even though I actually was once a guard on a strike line myself. In Bethlehem.)

 

[AnOminous]

One time when I was a teenager I hacked a starbucks' netgear router to put a password on it so only my friends and I could use it. Forgot what the password was but there's still a deserted starbucks next to my grocery store. All they have to do is reset their router. I guess I stuck it to them.

Does anyone else remember when every single fast food place was this lame that you could just spam their printers with fake orders all day long?

(Sorry I'm dating myself. You young kids should be jelly though.)

 

[RI 360]

Does anyone else remember when every single fast food place was this lame that you could just spam their printers with fake orders all day long?

(Sorry I'm dating myself. You young kids should be jelly though.)

You have a nasty habit of not apologizing for double posting. This isn't GOMI, get with our culture.

 

[AnOminous]

You have a nasty habit of not apologizing for double posting. This isn't GOMI, get with our culture.

F7uck you.