One of the effects of all this is the reawakening of a sleeping giant. More people marched—nationwide—on a single day in April 2006 in pro-immigrant rallies than on any day in the last year of highly publicized tea parties. Protests of April 2006

This is likely to get much more intense, and ugly, before anything gets solved. But the far right is living a fantasy if they think there won’t be massive pushback from immigration supporters. There were protests in over 100 cities on April 10, 2006. And that was with little time to get coordinated and mobilized. This time immigration supporters will really have their act together, so the numbers will be astronomical.