The L.A. "Protests" Are About 1% As Big As in 2006

Estimates of March 25, 2006's "Gran Marcha" range from 500,000 to 1,000,000.

This photo is of “La Gran Marcha” in 2006 in Los Angeles backing the amnesty bill that passed the U.S. Senate two weeks later, but then failed in the House. Estimates of the crowd size range from 500,000 to 1,000,000, about one hundred times larger than the highest estimates for any single day of protests in Los Angeles over the last weekend.

Advocates of “La Gran Marcha” assert 1,250,000 to 1,500,000 participants.

Strikingly, this vast throng 19 years ago was much better behaved than the less than 10,000 that turned out last Sunday in downtown Los Angeles. I don’t see a single car on fire in this picture. Immigration skeptic Mickey Kaus attended La Gran Marcha in 2006 and reports that he didn’t see any violence or property crime.

Earlier marches that year had seen large numbers of Mexican and Central American flags waved, but the word was out by March 25 to only bring American flags this time.

The enormous marches of 2006 and 2007 are often labeled “protests,” but they were more in support of American political elites like George W. Bush, Ted Kennedy, and John McCain pushing amnesty.

Still, who successfully instigated this colossal 2006 turnout remained a mystery in the English language press for quite some time, with much speculation but little insight.

Eventually, it turned out …

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