French and American demonstrators, no difference

The French youth who are protesting in the streets over labor laws really are no different than the illegal immigrants who are marching in the streets in America, they both want something they don't deserve. In France the potential employees want all the rights, leaving no rights for the employers. The French want to work, when they feell like it, take three weeks of vacation, unlimited number of sick days, a guarantee they will not be fired or laid-off.

Sounds like a great deal for workers, but what about the business owners? The First Employment Contract law would change the current situation and give a few rights to the employers/business owners, allowing employers to fire workers under the age of 26 within the first two years after their hire. Sounds logical to me. If a new employee isn't doing his job properly or isn't at his job when he should be, then employers should have the right to send them packing. The youth apparently want 'something for nothing'.

Police said more than 870,000 people took part in demonstrations around the country... The Communist-dominated General Confederation of Labor said in a communique that 700,000 people turned out for the demonstration in Paris alone. It also claimed that three million people had participated nationwide in Tuesday's protests.

According to figures compiled by AFP, most other labor unions estimated that nearly two million people in France took part in the demonstrations against the First Employment Contract law,source

Like the French rioters, illegal immigrants in the US also want 'something for nothing'. They want to enter the United States illegally and still claim the 'rights' of legal American citizens. They want the US to deny and break our own laws and allow them to stay here illegally.

Patrick McFawn of the Dialy Trojan says "The protest last Saturday[in LA] missed the mark on the true nature of the immigration issue."

The natural subconscious assessment by the public of protesters waving flags of their countries of origin on American land is that of conquest. Although accompanied by American flags, unlike the protests in 1994 against Proposition 187, nationally televised Latin American flags in Los Angeles don't speak positively to a national audience.

Protests such as this one usually tend to consolidate and strengthen support for most border security and enforcement measures among those members of the electorate who do not have strong feelings about the issue. Most individuals agree with the words of Dennis Miller: You have to "sign the guest book on the way in."

When laws currently on the books are labeled as a "xenophobic movement," voters solidify their position, as a crowd that argues against supposed-institutional federal racism today turns many off.source

There you have it, these marches will not do the illegals any good with legal voters. And playing the race card is something that is expected but absolutely incorrect. Voters against illegal immigration don't care what race/religion/color/creed the illegals are. The only label that fits is "illegal".

Like the French, the illegals want something that they have neither applied for, nor worked for, nor are eligible for. Like the French, the illegals want something they have not earned. Now we have high school students leaving school and taking to the streets. What happened to teachers and rules at school? Have those gone out of the window also? Shouldn't these children be in school getting an education?

School walkouts were reported at schools in San Diego and Orange counties, and in the Santa Clarita Valley in northern Los Angeles County.... "This is unjust. This land used to belong to us and now they're trying to kick us out," said Sandra Molina, 16, a junior from Downtown Magnet High School. source

What? Mac Johnson in Human Events Online says "Illegal Aliens: Just Mobbing the Streets Americans Won't Mob""

Apparently, the protests prove what a “divisive” issue illegal immigration is. To me, they simply prove that criminals dislike the prospect of increased law enforcement.

But that’s not all the protests prove. They also prove how ridiculously out of control our federal government has let the problem get. Which is worse -- that a half million immigration criminals and their descendants and sympathizers can be found in a single American city, or that the current immigration enforcement system is such a joke that the half million have nothing to fear from openly entering the public streets and arguing against legislation currently before Congress?

It’s as if thieves thought they could form a union to lobby for fewer cops.

What the protests truly represent is the colonization of America by the Latin style of politics. Rally, demonstration, march and protest are the tools of the politically dispossessed. They carry with them the intrinsic threat that is always associated with the gathering of large crowds in acts of political demonstration. And they are standard fair in the lopsided politics of many foreign nations, including Mexico.source

Apparently these demonstrations are not just limited to Mexico and other Latin American countries, just turn on the television and watch the French today. Look also at the Arab/Muslim nations after the Danish cartoons. Will American streets full of protestors influence politicians this week as they try to come to some agreement on immigration legislation? I hope not, but with the Senate Judiciary Committee favoring the McCain-Kennedy bill, I am very discouraged. But, hope springs eternal....

UPDATE: I need to add here that the American protests have been fairly peaceful, while the French demonstrations have just turned violent. French police are using water canons and other riot equipment for crowd control.