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It's the millennium all over again. We were told back then that when clocks hit 0000, January 1, 2000, computers all over the world would shut down, running water would stop running, cars would stop dead in the middle of the street, airplanes would fall out of the sky and civilization as we know it would revert to the Jurassic age. Here we go again.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Pro-immigration activists say a national boycott and marches planned for May 1 will flood America's streets with millions of Latinos to demand amnesty for illegal immigrants and shake the ground under Congress as it debates reform. Such a massive turnout could make for the largest protests since the civil rights era of the 1960s, though not all Latinos were comfortable with such militancy, fearing a backlash in Middle America. "There will be 2 to 3 million people hitting the streets in Los Angeles alone. We're going to close down Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, Tucson, Phoenix, Fresno," said Jorge Rodriguez, a union official who helped organize earlier rallies credited with rattling Congress as it weighs the issue.

There is no way this won't end badly. Either it will totally fizzle, like Not One Damn Dime Day, or it will succeed and generate the biggest backlash this country has ever seen.

I wonder if the illegals will boycott hospital emergency rooms, where they get free medical care. I wonder if they will not use food stamps for that one day. I wonder if illegal alien criminals will stop robbing convenience stores that American thieves won't rob, stop raping women that American predators won't rape and stop molesting children that American pedophiles won't molest.

In the past several weeks, the patience of the American people -- the most patient people in the world -- has been pushed to the limit by sights of illegal invaders waving Mexican flags and upside-down American flags and demanding that our laws be changed to make their illegal invasion of our country legal. Now, they have chosen communism's greatest holiday -- May Day -- to attempt to show us that this country could not function without them.

DENVER (AP) -- Some of the United States' largest meatpacking companies plan to shut down plants Monday, anticipating many of their workers will attend immigration rallies that day.

The top three beef-producing companies, Tyson Foods, Swift & Co. and Cargill Inc., all said they were closing plants.

ICE should immediately start an investigation of companies that shut down on Monday to see exactly how many illegal aliens they are employing. Arrests of company executives should follow.

Well, when I get off work Monday morning, I will be starting my weekend. I grocery shop 3-4 times a week because I like fresh produce and I expect the Giant to be open. I'll need a few things at the pet shop and I expect the doors to be unlocked at PetSmart. Then I need to get a new battery for my Roomba and fully expect Best Buy to be open. I might just skip lunch at Don Pablo's for fear someone might spit in my food, but there's a great Chinese buffet just a few blocks away. Except for some media frenzy and political bloviating, I expect it to be a perfectly normal day -- if an airplane doesn't fall out of the sky.

But I'm confused about one thing. If this demonstration takes off, it will be illegal aliens who are not working -- or getting paid -- on Monday. Who's boycotting whom?