I only had one brush with the boycott — although I’m not 100% positive that’s what it was.
My two youngest daughters asked if I would take them to our favorite taqueria — Taqueria Guadalupana — for rice and beans. Personally, I was looking forward to some tacos al pastor, which are killer at Guadalupana (especially when the skinny cook is there).
So, we roll up to the taqueria about 6:00 p.m. — and it’s closed! According to posted stores hours, it’s supposed to be abierto until 8:00 p.m.
Now, I don’t know if the proprietors closed in observance of the boycott — there was no signage indicating such — or if they closed because business was slow because of the boycott.
Of if they weren’t there for some other reason.
But that’s as close as I came to being impacted by the "Day Without Immigrants."
May 2nd, 2006 at 12:00 am
A taco joint I frequent in Murrieta was closed due to “staffing shortages”. I dropped a note card inside the door to let them know that I would never patronize their establishment again.
Made me feel better.
May 2nd, 2006 at 12:00 am
It was expected that the morning and afternoon commutes would be light. Mine, from Bonita to downtown SD and back along Hwy. 54 and I-5, was noticeably different for a different reason, though; the traffic load seemed to be a perfect fit for which the system was designed.
Thesis: by staying home from work on May/Law Day, the illegal immigrants – and slackers who’ll jump at any excuse to “call in sick” – relieved the workforce of its least reliable members. Not “reliable” in the sense that all illegal immigrants are’t good workers – part of the problem, as their lawbreaking employers have recognized, is that they often shame other legal employees with their work ethic. I use “reliable” in the sense that these are the workers who can be literally counted upon, who are an accurately definable component of our employee database, from which urban planners and traffic engineers can calculate expected population loads and design systems for them accordingly.
I submit that the reason why my commute seemed to work so well yesterday was that for one brief shining moment the system actually carried the load for which it was designed, not that which had been foisted upon it by uncontrolled illegal immigration. It wasn’t burdened with unaccounted traffic, which planners could never legitimately envision or document, and thus it lived up to its expectations and produced, for me at least, a record home-bound commute of 20 minutes door-to-door without any stops or slowdowns along the way.
Now I’m thinking: did anything similar occur elsewhere around the country, especially in LA, Chicago and in some other cities which saw large outpourings of illegal aliens and their misguided sympathizers marching, ironically, on Law Day against the rule of law? And what about hospitals, ERs, and social service agencies? What was noticed there? People WERE paying attentino, weren’t they? FAIR, PRI, Heritage Fdn, and others: get on this now and support what I believe is a workable thesis with the research neeed to show that illegal immigration is NOT the boon too many make it out to be.
And as for you employers of these folks, stop aiding and abetting their crime to the detriment of our nation!