More marches, a growing backlash

摘要

The images filled the nation's TV screens: a million or more demonstrators, almost all of them Latino, marching peacefully through America's cities on May 1st in the hope that Congress would grant America's 12m or so illegal immigrants a right to reside in "the land of the free". On the same day, hundreds of thousands of poor Latinos forfeited their pay (and risked being fired) to emphasise their economic importance as both workers and consumers. As the banners proclaimed from Los Angeles to New York, "Hoy Marchamos; Manana Votamos" (To-day we march; tomorrow we vote).