Although the words “a Day without Immigrants” might have different connotations for different folks, this Monday’s “DWI” was a downright bust any way you look at it.
In case you–like, apparently, almost everyone else–missed it, this past Monday, February 14 (Valentine’s Day) had been set aside for a general strike by immigrant workers around the U.S., to demonstrate their vital importance to the American economy.
In the lead-up to the big day, boosters promised that hordes of immigrants and unlawful migrants would be flooding the streets of America, the undocumented emerging from the shadows and the legal showing the critical work they do by not doing it. Why they had, imagine it, 70,000 Facebook members!
As it happened, the DWI fizzled.
According to Breitbart News, “seven people protested in Boston, ten people protested at the bay bridge in San Francisco. . . . Perhaps two hundred protested in New York.”
“Hundreds” showed up in Washington, DC, and Kansas City, and “nearly 100” in Salem, Oregon, while barely 50 were seen in Philadelphia.
All in all, it was a dud. Out of the officially estimated nationwide total of 44 million foreign-born, at most a few thousand managed to appear across the entire country. Those that work, apparently worked. Those that don’t, did whatever they ordinarily do. What they didn’t do, was show up for the demonstrations.
In a way unexpected by the organizers, on the streets of America this Monday, it was indeed a day without immigrants.
For more, see Breitbart News.