There is a need for a group of leaders crazy enough to demonstrate it is possible to come out and be safer. Ironically that has been taking place all over the country. The Chicago 6, the dreamers that protested inside the ICE offices where many are reported daily, the Indiana action, the Georgia four that sat in the middle of the street, the march of dreams from Miami to DC, the dreamer in calif that came out while under deportation proceedings getting extraordinary support for her case (a lot of prominent organizations get started in the attempt to bring attention to certain individuals), and many more.

The estimate a while back was that the US government spends about 20k per person deported, if through the actions of an entire community the cost becomes several times higher as they have to spend time and resources responding to tens of thousands of e-mails, faxes, calls, disruptions and considerable distrust in the entire community, then they are probably more likely to avoid such cases. They have to demonstrate they are not mismanaging money or spending more than estimated, and when a group of people disrupt a bus from leaving a compound filled with people to be deported and people are arrested it increases the cost across the board.

If a hundred thousand came out in support of the dream act in one spot it could create the sort of powerful statement to discourage action against such a movement.