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Businesses Across U.S. Close for 'Day Without Immigrants'

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Businesses in cities across the country prepared to close Thursday as immigrants boycott their jobs, classes and shopping.

Coming on the heels of roundups of undocumented immigrants nationwide, organizers urge legal residents as well as undocumented ones to participate in the boycott in response to President Trump's crackdown on immigration, which includes plans to build a border wall and a temporary immigration ban on nationals from certain Muslim-majority nations.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/b...-day-without-immigrants/ar-AAmZZwt?li=BBnbfcL
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The USA Today story hints at some major shutdown of commerce, but can only name a few overpriced restaurants that will be closed. The owners of these restaurants are wealthy millionaire celebrity chefs.

This article goes on to quote a spokeswoman from the racist supremacist group La Raza, and generally never lives up to it's headline.

Real immigrants will of course be working today, as will real non-immigrants, or 'documented taxpayers' as Americans have become.
 
Same amount of traffic as normal going to work into the city. I don't think this is going to impact my day.
 
truthatallcost said:
The USA Today story hints at some major shutdown of commerce, but can only name a few overpriced restaurants that will be closed. The owners of these restaurants are wealthy millionaire celebrity chefs.

This article goes on to quote a spokeswoman from the racist supremacist group La Raza, and generally never lives up to it's headline.

Real immigrants will of course be working today, as will real non-immigrants, or 'documented taxpayers' as Americans have become.
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First of all, La Raza is not a racist supremacist group. Second, what exactly is wrong with her quote:

"From doctors to dishwashers, immigrants are integral to daily life in the U.S.," tweeted Janet Murguia, president and CEO of National Council of La Raza, as she praised Spanish-American Chef Jose Andrés' decision to close his Washington, D.C., restaurants Thursday.
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Cool these people don't have to work they can be fired and positioned opened up as well.
People closing their businesses must be doing well.
 
americanwoman said:
First of all, La Raza is not a racist supremacist group. Second, what exactly is wrong with her quote:
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It's pretty radical starting with the name itself

La Raza has in the past embraced the Reconquesta movement that claims California was stolen from Mexico and generally stirs up resentment by Mexicans toward whites in the public schools

These are not nice people
 
Mac77 said:
It's pretty radical starting with the name itself

La Raza has in the past embraced the Reconquesta movement that claims California was stolen from Mexico and generally stirs up resentment by Mexicans toward whites in the public schools

These are not nice people
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You probably don't even realize what "La Raza" is and even if I took the time to explain in detail on translations you still would reject it and they do not support reconquista.


Who We Are | About NCLR

The translation of our name

Many people incorrectly translate our name, “La Raza,” as “the race.” While it is true that one meaning of “raza” in Spanish is indeed “race,” in Spanish, as in English and any other language, words can and do have multiple meanings. As noted in several online dictionaries, “La Raza” means “the people” or “the community.” Translating our name as “the race” is not only inaccurate, it is factually incorrect. “Hispanic” is an ethnicity, not a race. As anyone who has ever met a Dominican American, Mexican American, or Spanish American can attest, Hispanics can be and are members of any and all races.

NCLR has never supported and does not endorse the notion of a “Reconquista” or “Aztlán.” Similarly, NCLR’s critics falsely claim that the statement “Por La Raza todo, Fuera de La Raza nada,” [“For the community everything, outside the community nothing”] is NCLR’s motto. NCLR unequivocally rejects this statement, which is not and has never been the motto of any Latino organization.
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Blue_State said:
Same amount of traffic as normal going to work into the city. I don't think this is going to impact my day.
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So... since the "Day without immigrants" is not going to impact your day, are you willing to concede that immigration is not necessarily a pressing issue for your community?
 
americanwoman said:
First of all, La Raza is not a racist supremacist group. Second, what exactly is wrong with her quote:
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César Chávez was a critic of "La Raza," stating to Peter Matthiessen of The New Yorker,
I hear more and more Mexicans talking about la raza—to build up their pride. Some people don’t look at it as racism, but when you say ‘la raza,’ you are saying an anti-gringo thing, and it won’t stop there. Today it’s anti-gringo, tomorrow it will be anti-Negro. We had a stupid guy who just wanted to play politics with the union, and he began to whip up La Raza against the white volunteers, and even had some of the farm workers and the pickets and the organizers hung up on la raza. [17]
Chávez friend and UFW staffer LeRoy Chatfield[18] stated,

That's one of the reasons (Chávez) is so upset about La Raza. The same Mexicans that ten years ago were talking about themselves as Spaniards are coming on real strong these days as Mexicans. Everyone should be proud of what they are, of course, but race is only skin-deep. It's phony and it comes out of frustration; the la raza people are not secure. They look upon Cesar as their 'dumb Mexican' leader; he's become their saint. But he doesn't want any part of it.[19]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Council_of_La_Raza
 
RickJames3000 said:
So... since the "Day without immigrants" is not going to impact your day, are you willing to concede that immigration is not necessarily a pressing issue for your community?
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You better stick with white or asian guy operated restaurants today.

I'll try and report back observations from Austin TX. today.
 
americanwoman said:
You probably don't even realize what "La Raza" is and even if I took the time to explain in detail on translations you still would reject it and they do not support reconquista.


Who We Are | About NCLR
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Normally when whites organize along racial lines the left freaks out

But not in the case of la raza
 
Mac77 said:
Normally when whites organize along racial lines the left freaks out

But not in the case of la raza
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"The left" can freak out all they want but if white people want to make a community organization they have the right to do so. Also Hispanics are of many races so it's not really racial lines.
 
truthatallcost said:
The USA Today story hints at some major shutdown of commerce, but can only name a few overpriced restaurants that will be closed. The owners of these restaurants are wealthy millionaire celebrity chefs.

This article goes on to quote a spokeswoman from the racist supremacist group La Raza, and generally never lives up to it's headline.

Real immigrants will of course be working today, as will real non-immigrants, or 'documented taxpayers' as Americans have become.
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I'm sure that no one will be taking the day off in protest. Not if they want to keep their jobs.
 
americanwoman said:
First of all, La Raza is not a racist supremacist group. Second, what exactly is wrong with her quote:
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The problem with the statement is the same problem with every leftist statement on the subject: The continual and dishonest conflation of ILLEGAL immigration and LEGAL immigration.
 
americanwoman said:
"The left" can freak out all they want but if white people want to make a community organization they have the right to do so. Also Hispanics are of many races so it's not really racial lines.
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They have a legal right but practically speaking they would be call white racists, separatists ro white supremacists

But when la raza does it otherwise reasonable people like you are not offended
 
Mac77 said:
They have a legal right but practically speaking they would be call white racists, separatists ro white supremacists

But when la raza does it otherwise reasonable people like you are not offended
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It just doesn't make sense to claim it's some kind of racist or supremacist organization when its members come from every race.
 
jmotivator said:
The problem with the statement is the same problem with every leftist statement on the subject: The continual and dishonest conflation of ILLEGAL immigration and LEGAL immigration.
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Like it or not, those million of million of illegals along with the legals work in this country and if they suddenly disappeared that'd be a huge labor shortage.
 
WCH said:
You better stick with white or asian guy operated restaurants today.

I'll try and report back observations from Austin TX. today.
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Love me some "asian guy operated" eateries! Thai food~ yum.
 
Getting back to the topic I doubt if any business will close because latinos refuse to show up for work

But we may see stories in coming days of tearful Latinos who were fired for not showing up for fork
 
americanwoman said:
Like it or not, those million of million of illegals along with the legals work in this country and if they suddenly disappeared that'd be a huge labor shortage.
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You can't even manage to seperate illegal and legal immigrants in your response. If only illegals walked out on their jobs we would cope. The hardest hit would be a bunch of dishonest, cheating businesses who drive down wages by paying illegals under the table. I'm not any more broken up by those businesses failing than I am saddened by a company that fails when they are busted for tax evasion.
 
RickJames3000 said:
So... since the "Day without immigrants" is not going to impact your day, are you willing to concede that immigration is not necessarily a pressing issue for your community?
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Because they didn't strike doesn't mean that illegal immigration is not a pressing issue for my community.
 
jmotivator said:
You can't even manage to seperate illegal and legal immigrants in your response. If only illegals walked out on their jobs we would cope. The hardest hit would be a bunch of dishonest, cheating businesses who drive down wages by paying illegals under the table. I'm not any more broken up by those businesses failing than I am saddened by a company that fails for tax evasion.
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Many if not most la raza illegal aliens work for small contractors who are Hispanic themselves
 
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