Reply #118: May I just add this these thoughts?

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Proud, I respect and admire what you do, and I'm proud to call you a friend.
Thoreau, Ghandi, King, Sheehan, et al, practiced civil disobedience. The practice is very well defined.
But, I would also say that illegal immigration and protests against current policy and enforcement are different arguments. The economic disparities that exist between the Northern and Southern hemispheres around the world are the criminal result of global corporatism. Civil disobedience against this is warranted. That's what the marchers did. It was a boycott.
The argument that strays is the enforcement argument, that these illegal immigrants have no right to protest their conditions.
People don't cross borders illegally in protest. They do it in desperation. The big problem here is the rights of workers everywhere. Working people everywhere should join in the call for fair wages and working conditions. To stop these "free trade" agreements that favor business and bureaucracy over labor. And repeal the laws that gave corporations more rights than actual people.