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I too am of Mexican descent, and believe the border problem needs to be solved - however, after reading many of the posts here - they sound as ignorant, offensive and racist as the ones portrayed on wehategringos.

You can probably blame a lot of it on the fact that the media and "our leaders" in the government have worked overtime to foster the idea that "immigrant and "illegal alien" are two terms for the same category of person.

Yes, the reality is that the two classes are entirely different, and to equate them is tantamount to equating "burglar" with "guest". But, the reality is, the language has become perverted -- and not without purpose. There is an agenda at play, and we can see the fruit even here.

So, when you see the posters become irate at someone who "confesses" (he himself used a form of that word) to hiring "immigrants" -- in a context in which the word "immigrant" is, in common usage, "politespeak" for "illegal alien", you see the posters reacting to someone they believe was hiring illegal aliens.

I think there would be a very trivial, miniscule number of people who would actually object to the hiring of bona fide legal immigrants (with the exception of technical workers who have had their careers destroyed by crooked employers, working hand-in-hand with crooked "law" that is twisted -- with government politely looking the other way -- as "legal" type "immigrants" are brought in "temporarily" to take jobs "that Americans won't do." (Namely, jobs that Americans were doing, for good pay, but, the crooked employers brought in folks from places like India, who, highly trained, skilled, and intelligent, would take those jobs for a fraction of the pay that the Americans were being paid. But that's an almost entirely separate issue -- I say "almost", because I consider those workers to be "illegal aliens", since they are here "legally" under fraudulent auspices -- thus, they are here illegally.)

Myself, I am the grandchild of immigrants, on both sides of the family tree, from two separate countries. My grandparents did the Ellis Island route, after saying goodbye to their families forever, travelling "in less than style" across a continent, so that they could book cheap passage on a steamship to come to "the land of opportunity".

And when they got here, they did not have it nearly as easy as the illegal aliens have it today. They worked hard, they lived poorly, they had no "rights organizations", they had genuine ethnic bigotry to contend with... but, they made it. It took two generations for their offspring to become "mainstream", but, that's how "the melting pot" worked.

They came here to become Americans.

They spoke English in their homes. Their children grew up speaking English.

And, if people from those countries were doing now, what Mexicans are doing to this country, I would resent it every bit as much as I resent Mexicans doing it.

And for Mexicans who do play by the rules, instead of "gaming the system", I have every bit as much respect as I do for my own immigrant ancestors.

It's not a "racist" thing at all -- but, I suspect it will be, due to the intense polarization that is taking form. When people from one country, of one ethnic group, are allowed to break every rule in the book -- and then, instead of being taken to task for their criminal behavior, are rewarded... when "our" government bends over forwards to appeal to the illegal invaders... well, it's quite understandable how all sorts of resentments will fester and brew.

I expect that things will get a lot worse. I hesitate to add, "before they get better," because I am not that optimistic as to assume that they will "get better", period.