Costa Mesa immigration rally

So today loudogblog went to the Costa Mesa city hall to see the "big" rally. The first thing that I noticed was that the turnout was only about 2000 people. There were many people that I know who were worried about massive traffic congstion in light of last week's rally in Los Angeles. It rained until about 10 am and I suspect that supressed the turnout. The protest was quite orderly but the speakers were handicapped by the terrible audio system. It was fuzzy and distorted and occasionally suffered from dropouts and radio interference. There was a lot of talk about registering to vote (I guess that they're pretty confident that they'll get citizenship soon) and they compared the plight of the illegal immigrants to the internment of the Japanese during WW II and women not being able to vote over a century ago. "It was legal then, but that didn't make it right." was the chant. Here is the very small counter protest to the immigration rally in Costa Mesa today. Although they were a small group, a few of them were quite loud and one guy with silver hair and a jeans jacket was having way too much fun.