100,000 Protestors... Angry mobs of students...

[innerSpaceman]

Well, I was really just trying to find a significant number that would, in relation to the general population, make something ... anything ... ipso facto accepted by society. Or rather, something that - by virtue of said numbers - should be accepted by society.

I picked "tens of millions" out of my hat because - in deference to the actual topic of this thread - the estimated number of illegal immigrants currently in the U.S. is between 11 and 14 million. Is that a significant enough proportion of our population such that criminalizing them is distinctly out of whack with reality?

I suspect it is. I have a real hard time with making a felony of something that 12 million people are doing. Fortunately, I think cooler heads are going to prevail in the Senate ... and that's why we have the Senate (and why I almost think the House of Representatives should simply be abolished; it's practically an institutionalization of mob mentality).