>>>No, I don't think it is, not really. IMO this is a quite specific reaction against Hispanics. They are the immigrants du jour and as such are feeling the brunt of our country's historic intolerance against new groups, any group. German immigrants felt it. A good soccer referee I know, Austrian by birth, told me his grandmother attributed her felicity with English to one simple reason -- "I didn't want them to know I was German." Krauts, micks, frogs, polacks, chinks, curry breaths, jungle bunnies, tentheads. I am repeating myself but immigration is the entire history of this country. The repeating pattern is every wave wants to haul up the drawbridge on the way in.
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>>What does foolish name calling by a few ignorant bigots have anything to do with whether a person is here legally or not? The bigots are going to do what they do regardless of how foreigners come here. In fact I think illegals gives the bigots and racists more excuse for their ignorant behavior.
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>I guess where we disagree is I don't think it's just a few ignorant bigots, and never has been. EVERY new immigrant group has been greeted with belligerance. Hispanics are only the latest. Whether they came here legally or illegally is just a smokescreen.

No that's not what we disagree on and you're not answering the question. What does this have anything to do with someone being here illegally or legally?
"Smokescreen?" So if I don't want strangers in my house, it's because I'm a racist and a bigot?

Like Dennis Miller said, they should at least sign our guest book when they come across the border so we can at least know that they're in the country.