What is the relationship between this:

A crowd estimated by police at more than 500,000 boisterously marched in Los Angeles on Saturday to protest federal legislation that would crack down on undocumented immigrants, penalize those who help them and build a security wall along the U.S.' southern border.

and this?:

The First Employment Contract - CPE, as the French call it - has triggered a wave of protests spearheaded by the students it purports to help.
Polls suggest that 60% of the population at large opposes it. But one group clearly backs the move - employers.
"It is a good thing," Jean-François Roubaud, president of the French federation of small and medium companies (CGPME), told the BBC News website.

Think fast.
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And I just found out I've been banned at 2 sites. First DeLong and now Long Sunday. I'm almost proud.

Here's the post; my comment was a link. And here again is the Russell Jacoby piece from this morning.