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How The Anti-Immigrant Crowd Saw Sunday’s March

Posted March 24, 2010 by Patrick Young, Esq.
Categories: Hate Watch

We never give just one side of a story. As you know, I like to let the anti-immigrant activists interpret the debate in their own words. Here is how America’s Right Wing Youth Movement, Youth for Western Civilization reported on the rally for its members:

The crowd that gathered on the National Mall was overwhelmingly Latino. I would estimate that 85% to 90% of the demonstrators were immigrants, illegal aliens, or some type of Hispanic-American. In particular, El Salvador was drastically overrepresented.

At least half of the demonstrators were chattering among themselves in Spanish and other foreign languages. The chants from the crowd kept slipping back into Spanish over and over again. We got this on tape.

The crowd that gathered on the National Mall WAS NOT representative of America. I felt highly conspicuous and out of place as a White Southern male from Alabama. I got lots of dirty looks. I kept sarcastically asking my YWC colleagues: where are the natives?

Most of the demonstrators were smart enough to wave the American flag, but the whole scene looked staged on closer inspection. This wasn’t a spontatneous
outburst of American patriotism like you see at the Tea Parties. Rather, it was tens of thousands of people waving small American flags…

The highlight of the demonstration was seeing a furious American and his wife enter the demonstration after touring the Smithsonian Natural History Museum. I saw him wave his hand and yell at the crowd, “if these people would all get jobs, there wouldn’t be a problem.”

Final Thoughts:

The tens of thousands of Latinos who demonstrated on the National Mall showed up there because they expect to personally benefit from “comprehensive immigration reform.” I doubt a hundred of them would have turned out simply to express pride in their adopted country.