May Day Protest Organizers Having Second Thoughts

Looks like the May Day pro-illegal immigration protests that were supposed to shut down America may be a little less dramatic than originally planned. Organizers are now advising people NOT to walk out of their jobs or pull their kids out of school:

A panel of immigration activists said yesterday that it will not encourage workers and families to walk off the job and keep their children from school as part of a May 1 boycott, but will hold voter-recruitment and petition drives instead.

The announcement by activists from the District, Chicago and Los Angeles at a news conference in Washington underlined the split among the mostly Latino activist groups that led huge demonstrations in more than 140 cities in recent weeks, and shows that the grass-roots movement is operating at cross purposes toward the same end -- immigration reform and legal status for illegal immigrants.

Why the change of heart? Organizers began to realize that most employers would not look kindly on people walking out, and might actually fire some of the workers for abandoning their jobs without permission. The other issue is that there are rarely enforced penalties in the immigration law for employers who hire illegals, and the walkout could expose both employers and employees to the detriment of both. The fact that May 1st is also an international communist holiday probably doesn't help either.

I'm sure the protest organizers will come up with something else to do that day.

UPDATE: Michelle Malkin has a piece on what she describes as politically timed immigration raids. Looks like the Feds may start ramping up enforcement.