[Happy2BMe]

To say there is not racial prejudice is naive.

There is racial prejudice - that is the nature of man and there is nothing that politics will ever do to correct that.

There is racial prejudice in every movement. LULAC has it. CAIR has it. The ACLU has it. The NAACP has it and of course the KKK has it.

It is wrong. Period.

Racial profiling is wrong also. There is as much racial profiling against the members of the MinuteMan Project for example as any other activist group.

However, the MMP is racially diverse with concerned Americans from every ethnic group in the country actively involved.

That is the difference.

[RoadTest]

Sure there's a lot of prejudice, but that still doesn't have anything to do with what I said and that is: "A nation must secure its borders."

[chris1]

Were Europeans invading our country, demanding drivers licenses, health care education, medication, etc, YES, we would all want them out the same.

The race card is old, used, tired, and does not work any more, Get over it. Illegal invaders who drop trash all over are pigs, period, whether they are Mexican or whatever. It just so happens that most of the illegals happen to be from the same country.

[chronic_loser]

that was well said, and I thank you for it. There is a way to correct the mess on the border with market based incentives and a welcoming policy towards Latinos. It should be EASY to come across the border legally and HARD to come across the border illegally. Government has taken the position it has and made the opposite true (I feel like Al Gore in his infamous "UP" and "DOWN" speech). There are a number of freepers (I am one) who bitterly resent the attitudes of some of the hardliners yet agree that the borders need to be controlled. Otherwise, why bother having borders? The question is, should we use a carrot or a stick approach? The carrot approach assumes that the people here already will make good citizens if they have been productive workers and kept their nose clean, other than violations related to being here illegally. Set up a series of fines/incentives/fees for them to pay, require tax filings, make some kind of national Prop 200 to deny benefits to non-citizens, and give them papers. Then you focus on people who don't WANT to be here legally (very few). Expel them. Enforce the borders, but make it easy for healthy law abiding persons with jobs waiting to enter legally, (again, with funding the border operations coming from entry fees).

For the life of me, I cannot see why a police action is required for those presently here.