I agree. I'm not in favor of wild, uncontrolled immigration of any kind, but neither is Bush and neither is JR. However, the stuff I have read posted by the "anti illegals" crowd was enough to make my hair stand on end. It was full of undeniably racist, raving bigotry, much of it anti-Catholic as well as anti-Hispanic, and I doubt that 80% of Freepers shared those opinions.
I'm glad JR is doing something about it. I was considering stopping my donation because I really didn't want to be associated with a site that had people like that posting on it, frankly. They should be off with the Aryan Brotherhood.
Actually, I have often thought that some of the more radical and off-the-wall ranters were plants from the Dems, trying to stir up some of the more easily stirred-up folks and also trying to make all of us look as though we should be wearing white sheets. I thought that one of these days, they were going to announce that FR was a hate site and get us closed down. That would be typical leftist politics, and I think JR is aware of it, too.
Several months back there was a thread about a group called "Stormfront" that is apparently quite racist. It seems that some of their members were planning to infiltrate here and hoped to show us the light apparently.