What impact do you think hispanics will have if they do not report to work and school on May 1st?
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Really, I do not think there will be much of a financial impact.\nRemember the campaigns last year urging people not to buy gas from Exxon-Mobile or not to buy gas on certain Mondays?\nDid that work?\nWhat about the anti-war protests? Any effect?\n\nI am guessing that, like most of us when we take a day off, Hispanics that take May 1st off will have to work more the day before and the day after.\n\nAt the end of May, we will celebrate Memorial Day. All government business will be closed. Millions of people will not work that day. This happens every year and somehow, we all seem to get through it without a catastrophic collapse of the American Government.\nAs for the schools. If parents are going to protest the fact that their children are receiving a free education for their children they are just ungrateful!!!\n\nIf I ran a business and people decided to take May 1st off to protest. I would fire them. I am sure a lot of people feel the same way.
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Depends on what the boycott is and what will you be missing in class. I know alot of schools have finals next week so it isn't a good idea for them.
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Yes, it's May 1st. No immigrant in the USA will work, buy, or sell on this Day.  It will probably be 99% Latino Immigrants legal or not. Immigrants from other countries may follow.
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The world is changing, and there are more immigrants in this country than ever before. Census reports show hispanic rsidents as growing rapidly in numbers. This is difficult for the economy because of the expense to educate immigrant children, and provide Medicaid & housing for immigrants. However most of them come here just looking for a better life. Can you blame them?
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Although there is no real evidence on how such a calendar would effect student performance, there are plenty of reasons to deny such a system based on the economic needs of everyone involved:\n\nFirstly, many teachers pursue higher degrees during the long breaks provided by a summer break. This allows our children's teachers to become more qualified to teach our children what they need to know. Without this opportunity, and with the current complaints about the lack of qualified students, it's not hard to extrapolate the consequences that could arise from not allowing our educators this opportunity.\n\nAlso, the opportunity for work without severely impeding on school time endeavors. The long three months over the summer allow the children of farming communities to contribute to their families growth. Also, some teenagers may need to work for economic reasons of their own, or just to have the experience to make them more productive members of our society in the future.\n\nAlso, for students who are academically struggling and need more attention: Getting rid of the summer school period could mean destroying the opportunity for academic tutoring when it is desperately needed.\n\nAll in all, we need the traditional schooling system for the opportunities it presents everyone.
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eye eye\n\nMcDonalds will be replaced by taco bells\n\nthe IRS will be going into overdrive\n\nEnglish will be a second language\n\nThe most popular name in America will be MAria and Jose\n\nAnd WHITE PEOPLE WILL BE IN THE MINORITY QUOTA!!!\n\nall the while, black people will still be hated (we can NEVER win) and I'm not pulling the race card, just the Mexian president has said some pretty nasty things about my homies.
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ILLEGAI IMMIGRATION I SUPPOSE ,CONSIDERING THAT MILLIONS AMONG THE WORKFORCE ARE ILLEGAL.IF THEY SUDDENLY STOPPED WORK THIS WOULD IMPACT NEGATIVELY ON THE US ECONOMY BEARING IN MIND THEY ARE DOING ALL THE MEANIAL JOBS.
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Is Hispanic friends supposed to mean illegal immigrant friends?  I have a bunch of Hispanic friends. However, most Hispanics are here legally and most Hispanics are opposed to illegal immigration.\n\nIf I have any illegal immigrant friends, I am unaware of it.  \n\nI support legalization of qualified illegal immigrants who have real roots here.  I don't think it is fair to those who have been waiting.  However, after so many years of not enforcing the law and letting them get their roots so deep into this country, I would just feel bad deporting them.  \n\nI am not so sure about the way the guest worker program for future immigrants is shaping up on the Senate floor however.  They are billed by Bush as temporary, but the Senate is saying they (the ones yet to come under an increase in legal immigration rate) can become permanent residents with a path to citizenship.  I don't think that is good for anyone here, including most particularly the Hispanics or others performing low wage jobs.  There will be a perpetual 'race to the bottom' for wage levels, in my opinion.
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No, because the students who do not want to be in school are a big distraction.  It would be a good idea if all students wanted to go, but I doubt it's going to happen as long as school is mandatory.  So it's an untenable rule:  the benefits disappear as soon as it's enforced.
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school should not start before labor day and be out at the end of may...kids need the summer to be kids
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Life would go on... I don't think America is going to fall apart without any one minority (not that I have anything against Hispanics, or minorities in general)... I suspect this is in response to 'what would happen if illegal immigrants get mad and leave the USA.  This seems to be the line the media is running with these days, but the mass protests on May 1st didn't affect the economy in any substantial manner (the 10cent hike in gas prices has done far more than they could hope to do), heck it even made my day better, since a segment of the population wasted their time making fools of themselves protesting in the streets instead of impeding traffic on the interstate...
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It would be the same as we have in some neighborhoods in Los Angeles whose public schools close as needed for the major Jewish holidays.  As long as they are able to schedule in the requisite number of schooldays per term, it would be beneficial and unifying to the community  However, at this time there probably are few, if any, districts that would have this issue.
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STAY IN SCHOOL.  As a retired teacher, I know that Latinos are exposed to the same opportunities for obtaining an education as any other race.  They will be better represented in government when they pursue their education and stay informed.
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yes and no..........N and W Texas (and Ok) aren't due til sat....\nS Texas today, .........(that's just where my family and I are stretched out to.....) so that's how I know those areas......lol....\n\nhopin for it tho!!!
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It's true I live in a rural area, but I was in Wal-Mart today and saw several Hispanic people shopping.  Of course I have no idea if they are illegals or not, and I know there are a lot of illegals in the area working for Tyson, for example, but the point is they were getting on with their lives.  Maybe in the major cities where people can get on national news it's different.\n\nAnd what's going to happen during the Cinco de Mayo celebration in the big cities, particularly in states that border Mexico?
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I know I have spoken out against illegal aliens in response to other questions, and I'm ashamed to admit I never thought about how it would affect the Hispanic folks who have every legal right to be here, same as my ancestors.  I apologize for that.\n\nPersonally, I think we're in a situation similar to that of pre-Nazi Germany.  We have our own Brown Shirts (Homeland Security) and people spying on each other (truck drivers, delivery people and taxi drivers have been asked to keep their eyes open for suspicious activity) and I think we're in for a very bad time in this country.  I think we will all be required to carry papers before too long.  There will no longer be freedom of movement, etc.  God help us all!
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I am not surprised.  You break one law.  Who cares after that.  I see alot of crime in my city.  96% hispanic.  It is heartbreaking.  The neighborhoods look like slums.  If they are so great with housekeeping and lawns, why don't they take care of their own.  Better yet why don't they just go home.