Via Breitbart.com:

Hollywood stars, including Edward James Olmos and Salma Hayek, have joined ranks with a boycott planned for May 1 to protest the proposed tightening of US immigration laws.

Activists have called for immigrants and their supporters to abstain from work, studies or purchases Monday, following on massive demonstrations they staged around the United States in the past month.

May 1 is not a holiday in the United States, where Labor Day is celebrated in September.

“The protest will be very important, because it will teach a lesson to politicians and the rest of the United States,” Olmos, who is of Mexican descent, said of the action.

Oscar-winning Argentine composer Gustavo Santaolalla and Colombian actor John Leguizamo also lent their names to the cause.

Hayek, who is Mexican, said she knows herself what it means to “open a path” in the United States, as she told the Mexican press.

And, back in the world of the powerless…

Meanwhile, the US Department of Homeland Security rounded up more than 1,100 undocumented workers last week, and plan to round up more.

Need to go to war? Make the people afraid. Need to stop whistleblowers from reporting the truth? Make the people afraid. Need to stop a powerful protest? Make the people afraid.

The art in this, however, is to take from people all that you can get away with, to gain their fearful consent. But if you take from them everything, there is nothing they have left to fear.

And that’s why the undocumented march in such great numbers, unlike the middle class that has also been badly damaged by a terrible president. They did not come to America to break any law. They came here because they had no ladder to climb in their countries of origin, no way to achieve the price of admission imposed by our immigration laws.

They had nothing there. They have a little here. Tear that last scrap, that last crumb of hope from their mouths, and they might as well stand to resist that, because sitting out is certain extinction.

Politicians and the press can say it is about law or about morality or cost or xenophobia. But it’s really about the hopes of English Pilgrims to avoid government persecution, the hopes of the Irish fleeing certain death during the potato famine, of Cubans and Koreans and Vietnamese fleeing from the brutality of dictators.

The undocumented have nothing to call their own but hope. And our homeland security is not strengthened by stealing that. No wall can stand against those with nothing to lose. Such walls are prisons people with something are willing to live within, people convinced that their happiness can be had by securing their material things.

They may write and chant and sing about their love of freedom and liberty. But when confronted with the truly free, they separate themselves and crouch behind that wall, whose foundation is not hope, but fear.