Aside from a little traffic in the loop and a few street closures, Chicago was pretty much normal. Even a Home Depot (with signs in Spanish in addition to English) in a hispanic neighborhood was busy and fully staffed.

HUGE and very well-behaved crowds in San Francisco. Lots of families. A few International Answer folks mixed in the crowd, but they didn't set the tone.

HUGE and very well-behaved crowds in San Francisco. Lots of families. A few International Answer folks mixed in the crowd, but they didn't set the tone. Photos:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/telstar/tags/daywithoutimmigrants/

It was hard not to notice in NYC. And it was glorious. I could actually sit on the subway at rush hour.

All TV stations on the Satelite were up and running. I managed to buy a couple of things on EBay so the Internet was up and running. Walmart was as crowded as usual. I never shopped there until i found out the lefties hated the place. Now i stay out of the Union grocery stores and shop at WalMart for the savings. Spent a couple hundred on Lawn supplies and groceries. Did a lot of landscaping work without the aid of the criminal aliens, got most of the 2.5 acres mowed and whacked some brush and got it piled. See everything can be done without hiring a criminal. At 65 i can still do a hard days work, it's just that now it takes me 5-6 days to do it. LMAO at those too lazy to do their own work and have to use the criminals as slaves to do it.

Also stopped by the Fire Department and no one has stolen all of our trucks. We're still open for business...

Our mail was late...wonder if that meant anything.

jpe, I don't know what part of NYC you were in, or what time you take the train, but at 5pm on the east side in Midtown, the subways were as packed as ever going into Queens. I had hoped that I would get a little extra space, but there was more of a volume reduction during Passover than yesterday.

Also, all the lunch places around Grand Central were still open. The only closed shop I could find was a Hallmark store -- that had been closed due to tax non-payment. Hmmm.

I wonder if America now realizes that it can get along without the Illegal Aliens just fine? Yesterday proved it without question.

What I can't understand is what all the kids skipping school that day were supposed to prove. If I were a school teacher, I'd count it as any other unexcused absence: no making up tests, detention for playing hooky, and oh, wouldn't you know it, I had had a pop quiz scheduled for that day.

Makes you wonder why it was not called "A Day Without an Illegal Alien". People this is not about Immigrants. If you listen to or read some of the verbage that is comming from the Latino community they are advocating taking over the American southwest.

"They (Illegal immigrants) do work that Americans won't do", oh yeah? Yesterday I mowed my own lawn, cleaned my own toilets, cut down my own trees, and even did some work that illegals won't, or can't do; things that require fluency in the English language!

Take a look at teenage unemployment numbers and you will see who was doing these jobs before the under the table illegals took them. It provided some cheap labor for the business owner, some pocket cash for the teenager and some well needed JOB EXPERIENCE and GROWTH.

There is no such thing as a job an a US citizen wouldn't do. I picked produce in the summer at the neighborhood farm, dilivered newspapers, washed dishes at a restaraunt so who are these people saying we wouldn't do them?

I did and I think I turned out better for it. That train of thought is rediculous and it annoy's me.

Give the jobs to the U.S. teens who could use the money/self esteem/experience and let them grow.

These guys can't afford to take too many protest days off of work -- illegals don't get paid time off! Their power is virtually nil. They hurt us more when they go about their daily business of drawing benefits and consuming more of the GDP than they produce.

Worse for them, they seem to have alienated some of their support, and galvinized opposition.

And folks who sympathize must realize that a nation has the right to secure its own borders, and that's deadly serious business in the post 9-11 world. FInally, when i do go to Mexico, I have to obey the laws there. If I went to El Salvador, I'd be expected to obey the law there. No matter where, I'm always expected to obey the law. Why should it be different here in the USA?

Now, when's the counter rally?

Marsh

Marsh, read the Mexican Constitution. If you as a legal visitor in Mexico criticize any government policy, you will be immediately deported! Some reciprocity in civil rights!

Did the antique MSM miss the two demonstrations involving around 750,000 people (marching through the streets) demanding that the country get rid of the criminal aliens? No Mexical flags there.

I'd like to encourage everyone to boycott everything Mexican on May 5 (Cinco de Mayo). Don't buy anything made in Mexico; don't buy anything from hispanic-owned businesses;don't eat in Mexican restaurants (unless owned by an American corporation or citizen). In short, let's do our own "Day Without Immigrants."