I attended a rally today, accidentally conscripted into the press corps. The rally was called by the SF Bay Area Coalition for Immigration Reform and held at the foot of Thom Mayne’s giant federal robot at 7th and Mission in San Francisco. The attendees were protesting the $600 million border security bill headed to the senate claiming that “most border residents feel safe” and that “this vote will only fuel the frustration and anger building in Latino and Immigrant communities across the nation.” This according to Eric Quezada, Executive Director of Dolores Street Community Services, according to the bold type in the press packet I was given. Thank goodness for that thing, I couldn’t really hear what was being said.It started out at first as a joke, I was clearly carrying a camera, and you are reading this right now, so that makes me “press”, right? But it soon became a reality. At virtually the same exact time as this rally, Judge Walker was issuing his ruling on the stay of same-sex marriages making me the only American news outlet electing to cover this rally. Telemundo sent a cameraman and a microphone.In the city where No On H8 is king, it’s going to be hard to get a word in for a while. Especially if your message comes from a distant land like San Diego.Crackheads sympathized. It was an awkward moment for the politicians as well as the politics themselves. They held a rally for an overshadowed issue, and had it very tacitly invaded on by a very real, local issue, that of vagrancy.Which is to say that during this rally, life continued uninterrupted, which is not such a bad thing at all.