[paper avalanche]

No MEChA just wants "their" country back.

Turn off the paranoia there for a second. The moonbats at MEChA are a totally fringe group even among hispanics. Nobody wants to recreate Mexico in So Cal, that's what they went here to *get away from* in the first place. What most of them want is to be alloweed to work insanely hard at really sucky jobs so they and their children can have a better life... better in all the ways in which the good ol' US of A is better than Mexico, most of which have nothing to do with economics of welfare or whatever. They like it here just fine the way it is, thank you.

[Cultural Jihad]

Excellent point. Anyone can point out any fringe nutcase group in order to instill fear in others. People who are afraid are more easily manipulated. Perhaps immigrants are asked to look at the KKK or Nazi Party crackpots and are told that all of America is against them, just as some come around here and point to MEChA or Aztlan as representative of immigrant aspirations. It's all just baloney if it weren't dangerous for the ill will it fosters.