May Day May Day

If you haven't heard about the protests going on today, or you think they're stupid, you've been living under a bigoted, antediluvian rock. In case you seem to think these people should just go home, YOU try going to this website and see if you can figure out how to get a work VISA all by yourself. I can't and I've worked in a law office for 5 years.

Now imagine you can't read English but you can speak it. Or imagine you've just graduated from a U.S. high school and in all ways but one you are a bona fide American teenager. You don't even speak Spanish. Suddenly the U.S. government wants to pass laws that make it a felony for you to live in your homeland of the United States. Aren't you innocent? What did you do wrong? Why would they deport you to a foreign country when you pay taxes and work for a living, and don't break any laws except the one they just passed specifically against you??

I'd protest too!