this is what democracy looks like.

When members of the Senate Judiciary Committee meet today to wrestle with
the fate of more than 11 million illegal immigrants living in the United States,
they can expect to do so against a backdrop of thousands of demonstrators,
including clergy members wearing handcuffs and immigrant leaders in T-shirts
that declare, "We Are America."

But if events of recent days hold true, they will be facing much more than
that.

Rallies in support of immigrants around the country have attracted crowds
that have astonished even their organizers. More than a half-million
demonstrators marched in Los Angeles on Saturday, as many as 300,000 in Chicago
on March 10, and — in between — tens of thousands in Denver, Phoenix, Milwaukee
and elsewhere.
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"It's unbelievable," said Partha Banerjee, director of the New Jersey
Immigration Policy Network, who was in Washington yesterday to help plan more
nationwide protests on April 10. "People are joining in so spontaneously, it's
almost like the immigrants have risen. I would call it a civil rights movement
reborn in this country."

yeah denver.