I agree with that, it's not only troubling it is downright scary.
I grew up in South Texas and there are many wonderful hispanics in my town. I can imagine it is a delemma for them at this point. Many of them are against the illegals too but I guess they're afraid to speak up.
I know you're a good, hard Texan. I would like to see Aztlan brought down by Homeland Security. All their doing is preaching sedition, hate, and division. To many good Hispanics from all parts of our country, including Mexico, have given their blood and lives for America and our flag.
These hate organizations thrive off the ignorant, poor, yes, miserable illegal immigrant that lived and had no other life but poverty! My ancestors came through Ellis Island, but, that's another story.
That is an important point, potlatch. I recall when the floodgates opened in the late '80s and the newer Mexican, Nicaraguan, Salvadoran, Guatemalan and Honduran illegals began pouring into southern California.
The Americans of Mexican descent, aka Chicanos, despised the newcomers and referred to them as "pochos." They didn't want to be identified with these frankly lower class people, who were leeching everything in sight.
The Chicanos I went to school with, and whose homes and families I visited, were highly assimilated and had the close-knit families that are their strength. They were and are in every profession and mingle comfortably with non-Latinos.
They wanted the newer, poorer illegals to go back. I don't recall when they stopped being vocal about it, and somehow many have been co-opted into the pro-illegal movement or, at least, intimidated into silence.
We must remember the Hispanic families who have been here for generations as 100% Americans, whose sons and daughters have served this country proudly in the military.