Countdown to May Day, 2008

Tomorrow is May Day.  Once again, the open borders lobby is organizing protests across the nation to show just how much support there is for granting amnesty and all kinds of taxpayer-funded benefits to illegal aliens.  I'd like to take this opportunity to make some predictions:

1. There will be a lot of media hubbub, but it will be exaggerated.  If organizers say there will be millions marching, I predict there will be hundreds of thousands.  If they say hundreds of thousands, I predict there will be tens of thousands.
2. There will be many more Mexican flags than American flags.  I've addressed this many times before: if illegals were truly interested in becoming Americans, they wouldn't wave a Mexican flag and demand 'reconquista'.
3. There will be no talk of assimilation.  Again, if illegals wanted to join us, where are the conversations about learning English, getting education and jobs, and contributing to the American society and economy?  Instead, I predict we'll hear a lot of complaints about how Americans are racist meanies who are trying to deny their 'rights'.  Might I preemptively remind everyone that the 'rights' they speak of so recklessly are only granted by the Constitution to American citizens?
4. Few, if any, arrests will be made.  This truly amazes me!  If our government was actually interested in cracking down on illegal immigration (and deportation), they'd be licking their chops at these protests.  What better way is there to identify and capture illegals than to go where they gather in huge groups to openly profess being here illegally?  We could remove a significant chunk of illegals in one day, if the government had the stones to do it.
5. This effort will backfire.  While protest organizers will see their marches as a way to illustrate wide public support, they'll probably only get a couple million people involved at best.  That would be a tiny fraction of the population of the country (three million people would be less than 1%).  But, when Americans -- real, legal, working, tax-paying ones -- see these marchers with their Mexican flags, their demands (in Spanish, naturally) for accommodation of non-existent 'rights', and their talk of what America can do for them rather than how they want to join America, we'll will get pissed off all over again.  Don't expect any groundswell of support from legal citizens.  If anything, the opposite will happen.

I'll report back to you later in the week.

There's my two cents.