Glenn Reynolds makes what seems to me to be a serious error here:
I'VE GENERALLY FAVORED OPEN IMMIGRATION, but I find myself feeling less and less that way in the face of mass rallies by illegal immigrants like this one.Illegal immigrants as individuals just trying to make a better life are sympathetic. Illegal immigrants as a mass movement making demands on the polity are considerably less so.
500,000 in LA, 50,000 here in Denver, and I saw many of them. What makes Glenn think that they are illegals?
This is an error made all to frequently by the closed border crowd, and I'm surprised he falls into it. Not all brown people are here illegally. The vast majority are here legally, and I think its a big stretch to assume these demonstrators are illegals.
Update: (For clarity) Obviously, some of the demonstrators are here illegally. That doesn't make it a mass of illegal immigrants.
Posted by Walter at March 25, 2006 09:07 PM