ABSTRACT
When 4 to 6 million people turned out for the “Day Without Immigrants” General Strike and protest marches on May Day 2006, attention was turned to an immigrant rights movement that had heretofore never attracted much notice. There was something unusual about this day of immigrant marches. Even during the heyday of Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers, crowds this size never turned out as they did on this day, marching down streets in broad daylight. During the 1970s la Raza Unida Party of Texas tried mobilizing Hispanics at the border and found some success, but nothing like this.
