It is estimated that 3.2 million children who are legally US citizens by birth could be separated from their parents if the forced deportations are allow to continue. Population studies have found that 70% of immigrant families are of mixed immigration status where one or more parent is a non-citizen, and one or more child is a US citizen.

Every year hundreds of thousands of US born children lose their mother or father to deportation.

The average daily population of immigrants being held in detention awaiting deportation is 25,000

WWW.detentionwatchnetwork.org

www.immigrantdefenseproject.org

www.nationalimmigrantionproject.org

www.hermandadmexicana.org

www.mapa.org

The banner, the nauseating Let Day Laborers Live the American Dream, promotes the Big Lie that a worker can get rich in America by hard work only. THIS IS A VICIOUS LIE. The only way anyone gets rich is either by exploiting the workingclass or by promoting the exploitation of the workingclass either at home or abroad, commonly known as US imperialism abroad. In other words, only by promoting capitalism or being a capitalist can one become rich, and both are parasitical. As to advancement of the American workingclass as a class, which is of all colors including white, the wages of the American workingclass have not increased either in spending power or actual dollars for SIX YEARS, and the quality of life for the American workingclass has been declining since 1950 with the anti-Communist witchhunts that kicked communist/Trotskyist labor organizers out of the unions, and accelerated since 1973, when the disastrous effects of the wars against Korea and Vietnam finally came home to roost. That is because we have no LABOR MOVEMENT, which would put an end to anti-immigrant scapegoating and the endless wars perpetrated by the capitalist class to maximize profits, the primary goal of capitalism. The lead banner SHOULD BE LABOR UNION BANNERS, especially on LABOR DAY. Immigration is a LABOR ISSUE, FIRST AND FOREMOST. The immigrant organizations need to learn REALITY OF THE USA: 1) There is no American dream and they should tell that to their members; (2) Waving any national flags at labor demonstrations is insulting to the entire workingclass as all national flags are the bosses' flags and the American flag in particular is a worldwide symbol of American imperialism; the red flag is traditionally the flag of the international workingclass although if one prefers, just do not wave any flag. So far, the immigrant organizations have, as of May Day, defeated the anti-immigrant bils in Congress. So long as they do not help build a LABOR MOVEMENT, there will be no amnesty, and LABOR IS INTERNATIONAL. We do not wave BOSSES' NATIONAL FLAGS and we are of all colors: Black, brown, yellow, red and white, same enemy, same fight, workers of the world unite!

I for one am appalled at the stampede to blame another wave of refugees for the lash that drives them.