A modest suggestion

Boycott by immigrants urged. I'll add in a few illegal's so the following makes sense:

The message to illegal Latino immigrants in the Bay Area and around California is sweeping: Keep your kids home from school Friday, don't go to work and stay away from stores.

The unprecedented request, made by illegal immigrant advocates to protest the repeal of a law that would have allowed illegal immigrants to apply for driver's licenses, is intended to show state leaders the collective economic and social clout of California's growing immigrant population.

While it's impossible to measure the success or failure of the daylong economic strike, organizers said they are encouraged that dozens of advocacy groups are rallying thousands of people to participate.

Translation: as long as they can get some of the usual wingnuts on camera, they can call it a success.

The advocates hope most of California's 11 million Latinos support the strike, though the effort is heavily focused toward illegal immigrants.

Analysts who pay close attention to the saga of the license law say the strike is an expression of frustration for undocumented (i.e. illegal) immigrants who feel their needs are being ignored by policy-makers.

The needs of illegal aliens? How about a bus back to the border?

Nativo Lopez, the leader of a group promoting the strike, the statewide Mexican American Political Association, suggests that parents keep their children out of school because education ``represents big bucks, financed by our taxes.''

Schools are unofficially protesting the boycott because they stand to lose state funding for unexcused absences.

Not the illegal aliens' taxes, of course.

Here's an idea, Nativo. Why don't the illegal aliens really teach 'em a lesson and just head back across the border?