Some initial coverage of this year’s May Day illegal-alien marches, from the NYT and Michelle Malkin. And here’s a complete list of planned marches.

One thing reporters are asking me is why the marches will be so much smaller this year than last, especially given that pro-illegal-alien forces now hold both the White House and both houses of Congress. I think part of the explanation is that the national open-borders groups (U.S. Chamber of Commerce, National Council of La Raza, Service Employees Int’l Union, American Immigration Lawyers Assn., etc.) concluded that last year’s marches, representing as they did the illegal-alien Will to Power, were an example of what the Marxists used to call “premature revolution”, where the social context was not yet ready for the application of the new ideology. The result was a backlash, and the failure of the amnesty bill passed by the Senate.