Personally I think there are a lot of things that all converged - From
seeing the protests on TV it looked like the protesters are mostly latino.
Nothing against latinos (at all), but they are the group (them and their
families) that would be the main "target" of the law.  I am against the
illegal immigrants flooding the US, but not because of terrorism (not that
it doesn't enter my mind, but it isn't the first thing that I have a
problem with).  I seriously doubt that the VAST majority of these illegals
mean any kind of harm to the US (I think that they are doing harm, but not
out of malice).  I am sure that the protesters look at themselves and say
"I have nothing against this country, I just want to work", so terrorism
probably isn't a big issue.  I think that the high school kids are out
there because after years of TERRIBLE governing by the Bush administration
EVERYTHING they do or might do starts to look bad.

Civil disobedience is how we became a country, imbeciles.  Adams,
Jefferson, Henry etc would be proud of these kids.

And I love how this immigration issue suddenly comes up while Iraq is
in complete chaos.

Talk about a distraction ploy by the right and its media.  Karl Rove
has done it again.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-march28mar28,0,3303231.story?coll=la-hom
e-headlines

How DJs Put 500,000 Marchers in Motion
By Teresa Watanabe and Hector Becerra, Times Staff Writers
March 28, 2006

He's one of the hottest Spanish-language radio personalities in the
nation. So when Los Angeles deejay Eddie Sotelo joined hands with his
radio rivals to urge listeners to turn out for a pro-immigrant rally
in downtown Los Angeles on Saturday, organizers hoped for a big
turnout.

But many said Monday that they were stunned by how many responded to
the call to march against federal legislation that would crack down on
undocumented immigrants and penalize those who assist them.

As a result, what was initially expected to draw fewer than 20,000
ballooned into a massive march that police estimated at 500,000 and
said was one of the largest demonstrations in Los Angeles' history.
The march topped a wave of protests drawing hundreds of thousands of
participants in cities around the nation, which organizers said
influenced the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee's approval Monday of
legislation that includes legalization for undocumented immigrants.

Rally supporters, including immigrant-rights activists, churches, and
labor and community groups, agreed that the active advocacy of the
region's top Spanish-language radio personalities was critical in
drawing the enormous crowds, who marched more than 20 blocks along
Spring and Main streets and Broadway to City Hall, wearing white
"peace" shirts and waving American and Mexican flags.

The promoters included such on-air celebrities as KHJ's Humberto Luna,
KBUE's Ricardo "El Mandril" (The Baboon) Sanchez, Renan "El Cucuy"
(The Boogeyman) Almendarez Coello — whose often risque show has cast
him as a sort of Latino version of Howard Stern — and Sotelo, better
known to listeners as "El Piolin," or Tweety Bird. Coello's and
Sotelo's morning talk shows are among the highest-rated programs in
any language in Los Angeles.

"They were the key to getting so many people out," said Mike Garcia,
president of Local 1877 of the Service Employees International Union.
"If you listened to Spanish-language media, they were just pumping,
pumping, pumping this up."

For his part, Sotelo said he decided to promote the cause — by calling
a summit of his rival deejays to encourage them to do the same — after
rally organizers told him about the ramifications of the legislation
passed by the U.S. House of Representatives last December. The bill,
by Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner Jr. (R-Wis.), would make undocumented
immigrants and those who assist them felons and erect a 700-mile fence
along the U.S.-Mexican border.

"I told God that if he gave me an opportunity as a radio announcer, I
was going to help my people," said Sotelo, who himself illegally
crossed the border in the trunk of a car in 1986 and gained legal
status a decade later. "I think we have to make sure the message went
through to Washington, to let them know we're not criminals."

The idea for the march first sprouted in February in the oldest church
in Los Angeles: Our Lady Queen of Angels, which has historically
served as a sanctuary for undocumented migrants.

The church near Olvera Street has become one of the city's organizing
hubs against the House bill, playing a leading role in promoting the
Roman Catholic Church's national "Justice for Immigrants" campaign.
Cardinal Roger M. Mahony last December appointed a committee to
promote the national campaign throughout the 5-million-member Los
Angeles Archdiocese.

The coalition of religious, community and civil rights activists
meeting at the church had begun planning several small-scale events:
news conferences, a petition drive and protest marches to Republican
and Democratic party offices.

But when two visitors joined the group in January, the vision suddenly
expanded.

Jesse Diaz, a doctoral candidate in sociology at UC Riverside, had
worked with day laborers in Pomona and organized marches against
Proposition 187, the 1994 state initiative that cut public benefits to
undocumented immigrants but was struck down in federal court. Javier
Rodriguez, a journalist, had also worked with immigrants and organized
black-Latino political alliances.

The two men called for something dramatic: a massive protest march.

"It was time," Diaz said. "The Sensenbrenner bill had passed. We have
10 [million] to 12 million undocumented immigrants in this country,
but their voice can't be heard at the ballot box. We felt a march
would be a way for them to speak out."

The coalition was initially wary, he said. The group had little money
or organization. At the time, none of the big labor or civil rights
organizations had yet signed on, such as the service employees union
or the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles. At the
table, aside from the Catholic priests and some Spanish-language
journalists, were such groups as the Central American Resource Center,
Hermandad Mexicana Latinoamericana, the Pomona Day Labor Center and
the Southern California Human Rights Network.

But Diaz and Rodriguez kept pushing. On March 2, the group held a news
conference at the church to announce the march and call for political
and Spanish-language media to get involved.

On March 13, the group got extensive coverage from KMEX-TV Channel 34,
including promos, leading up to a "media breakfast" the next day.
Later that day, Rodriguez and other leaders spoke to a producer on
Sotelo's program. The day after that, they were on "Piolin Por La
Mañana" for four hours, Rodriguez said.

"That was it, man!" Rodriguez said. "They gave us four hours and we
went at it. We talked about the need for people to come out."

The next day, Rodriguez and other leaders went on the air with Sanchez
of KBUE-FM (105.5) "Que Buena." During that show, Rodriguez said, he
proposed that the deejays join together for the cause.

Many people have suggested that but the cops are doing nothing. Pretty
clear that our govt wants illegals flooding america.  The long term
plan is to eventually incorporate mexico into the USA and the govt
feels that will go a lot smoother if the country is already crawling
with tacoheads.

Sorta makes me curious that maybe Fox is sending these people north
norder to get rid of them and finding the USA a welcoming dumping
ground. Much like Castro did in '80 with the Mariel boatlift...