Immigrants Rights

Yesterday, Monday April 10th, was a 'national pro immigration day'. Throughout the country tens of thousands, sometimes hundreds of thousands, immigrants, legal and illegal, protested on the streets of some of the nations largest and most important cities to persuade congress to legalize the millions of illegal citizens living in this country. In addition, across many college campuses, students took up the cause and staged walk-outs from classes, as well as organized other various demonstrations of their own (interestingly, I did not recall seeing a single thing going on at Tulane, which is sorta of dissapointing, because immigrants, both legal and illegal i'm sure, are rebuilding our city). While I don't want to comment on my particular opinion on this topic (o.k., i'll just say I think immigrants are beneficial to this country and as such their rights should be respected), but I think it is a really important and pressing topic that needs to have more national discussion, as a solution to the problem needs to be found. Also, I think people should be educated on the impact immigrants have on our economy, both positively and negatively, as well as on the economies of their home countries. It will be interesting to see how May 1st, the "day without the immigrants" plays out and whether or not anyone really takes notice. There's a good/funny/ironic movie sorta about the same topic, it's called "a day without the meixcans" and its a day when all the mexicans disappear from Los Angeles and the wealthy people have to take out their own trash and make their own food. I reccomend watching it if you get the chance