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“If you are wondering whether Monday’s nationwide “day without immigrants” protests by largely Hispanic pro-immigration groups will help or hurt their cause, here’s a preliminary scorecard: It will hurt them in the short run, but will help them in the 2008 presidential election and beyond.
The explanation is simple: While Monday’s massive marches in several U.S. cities were a demonstration of strength, the boycott of American products called by some of its organizers was a stupid idea. It gave anti-immigration groups (or anti-illegal-immigration groups, as they call themselves) ammunition to portray the peaceful demonstrators waving American flags as a hostile, potentially dangerous crowd. “
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