Here’s a bit of fun from the local Hearst daily:
Houston’s immigrant boycott keeping some home
Traffic seemed lighter to some, scattered restaurants shut down and taco trucks were scarce in Houston today as activists around the nation declared it “A Day without an Immigrant.”
Taco trucks were scarce?!
Upon my first read, I thought that was terribly politically incorrect coming from the same newspaper that refuses to print the race of suspects in its crime reporting.
However, nowhere in the story is the boycott described as primarily one that involves Hispanics, so maybe the story’s not as politically incorrect as I thought at first. It’s entirely possible that the taco trucks might well have been put out of commission today when all those central Eurasian immigrants failed to show up for work. Kazakhs just want their chance at a good life in America too, you know!
So don’t go jumping to conclusions.
Thanks to the scores of people who emailed about this story, which required three reporters.
