Fewer Criminals Willing to March

The annual March of the Criminals is getting smaller. Sam Quinones of the Los Angeles Times reports.

Few people felt the low turnout at this year's May Day march as acutely as Salvador Ramirez.

Ramirez, an illegal immigrant from Jalisco, Mexico, pushed a cart among the few thousand immigrant-rights and labor activists Sunday on Broadway, selling American flags.

So much for hiding in the shadows. The paper can’t bring itself to use the correct phrase, illegal alien.

Only a few thousand people showed up for the nine-block march that started early and ended quickly. Los Angeles police declined to issue a crowd estimate, but marchers didn't even fill the intersection of Broadway and 1st Street, where the demonstration ended.

Heh heh.

But six years with no significant legislative reform "has started to chip away at the spirit of the community," said Pedro Reyes, a former L.A. resident who recently moved to Santa Maria, Calif., where he teaches English to migrant farm workers. "It's definitely causing a toll."

Yay! Enforce existing laws.

This year handmade posters were largely replaced with pre-printed signs and T-shirts. And instead of young couples pushing strollers, most marchers were union members - particularly from the Service Employees International Union, which turned out hundreds of people - or members of a socialist or communist group.

Pathetic.

Many of the protesters are angry at Obama for not granting them all citizenship and paying their way through college. Ingrates. They should be marching to denounce the corruption in their home countries, and express appreciation to Americans for letting them hang out there and use our infrastructure and public services.