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100,000? Lowest estimate I saw was 200,000. Seen as high as 500,000 (and that's from LAPD, which usually low-balls crowd estimates). Saturday night, driving through downtown around 7pm, we saw a large crowd on an overpass waiving flags and banners.
I don't like the bill that passed the house. It's simply ridiculous to expect doctors to turn patients away and clergy to turn away the hungry. Fortunately it seems the Senate is already chipping away at the more extreme provisions. It's unlikely it will pass in anything resembling its current form.
As for an overall solution, I like the sound of the bipartisan proposal coming from Ted Kennedy and a Republican who I can't recall at the moment. It involves a guest worker program, streamlined citizenship for new legal immigrants, and an 11 year process for current illegals to become legal.
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