Well, one thing that would get a lot of attention is a strike by *all* the illegal workers in the US. I think that would make the average middle-class American pay attention ... when there aren't bus-boys to take plates away, maintenance workers to fix toilets, folks to pick the pretty vegetables that we see in supermarkets, etc.

any kind of boycott or protest and the resulting backlash might be the only expression possible of various aspects of an issue that is constantly being swept under the rug.

That's my very biased opinion.

Teresa