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Report: Hispanics fear backlash over immigration
San Diego Union-Tribune (AP) ^ | 10/27/2010 | LAURA WIDES-MUNOZ

Posted on 10/29/2010 2:23:22 AM PDT by South40

MIAMI — Hispanics are increasingly concerned about a backlash against them, even as they are split over the effects of illegal immigration on the country. Their anxiety comes as illegal immigration and border security are playing major roles in election campaigns nationwide.

More than 60 percent of Latinos say discrimination against Hispanics is a "major problem," up from 54 percent who said the same in 2007, according to a report to be released Thursday by the nonpartisan Pew Hispanic Center.

Three years ago, Hispanics were most likely to cite language skills as the biggest reason for discrimination. Now, more than a third believe immigration is the biggest factor.

That said, the number of Latinos who reported they, their family or close friends have experienced discrimination remained unchanged from last year and actually dropped from 2007.

(Excerpt) Read more at signonsandiego.com ...


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To: TSgt

Hey, latino fools. It isn’t “backlash” when you are arrested and deported for breaking federal laws. You are a bunch of degenerate law breakers & criminals, you illegal aliens. Go back to your lice-infected loser countries.


21 posted on 10/29/2010 4:58:55 AM PDT by hal ogen (1st amendment or reeducation camp?)
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To: Altura Ct.

Then the legal ones had better start speaking up. Because if the problem gets worse, I can’t tell the difference between the legals and illegals; they all look the same to me.


22 posted on 10/29/2010 5:18:38 AM PDT by kevslisababy
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To: South40

I would LOVE for Laura to come into my neighborhood and talk to our Hispanic neighbor Sandra. She is a 5th or 6th generation LEGAL citizen, and speaks little Spanish. Same goes for her husband. Neither can stand the illegal immigrants and she has NO problem telling them.


23 posted on 10/29/2010 5:18:46 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (Remember in November. Clean the house on Nov. 2. / Progressive is a PC word for liberal democrat.)
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To: South40
Hispanics are increasingly concerned about a backlash against them

Once again, another article about an imagined collective loss of civility and lawfullness by angry mobs of whites. Now we are going to turn on the hispanics right after we get around to going hutu on the Muslim tutsi.

You know, the most clearly documented American outrage against an ethnic group by an enraged white guy was FDR locking up all the Japanese Americans after Pearl Harbor. And he's a leftwing hero for his efforts. The left needs to worry about the madmen in their own camp and stop projecting their own genocidal tendencies on to good normal white people.

24 posted on 10/29/2010 5:25:07 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: rrrod

Ruben Navarette must not have been available for this fear piece in “Soviet Union.”


25 posted on 10/29/2010 5:25:56 AM PDT by Luke21
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To: South40

Hispanics concerned about backlash.
Muslims concerned about backlash.
Homosexuals concerned about backlash.

How about restating it:

Border scofflaws concerned about justice.
Murdering savages concerned about counterattack.
Degenerates concerned about normalcy.

Puts a different light on it, eh?


26 posted on 10/29/2010 5:30:13 AM PDT by IronJack (=)
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To: kevslisababy
Exactly what are you planning to do if citizens of Hispanic ancestry don't publicly espouse your views?
27 posted on 10/29/2010 5:52:53 AM PDT by conejo99
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To: South40
All legal Hispanics need to demand a border fence and for strong enforcement of our immigration laws (i.e. deport all illegals)

My wife (hispanic), her family and my hispanic friends all fear and have seen some backlash from the anger over illegals, and they all want the laws enforced. Our anger (I have children who are brown) is rightly directed toward the illegals, the politicians and others who allow it.

28 posted on 10/29/2010 5:53:28 AM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Hey, Barack "Hubris" Obama, what are you hiding? Release your Birth Certificate!)
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To: kevslisababy; Arrowhead1952
I can’t tell the difference between the legals and illegals; they all look the same to me.

Sadly, my family recognizes that and even though most of my family is Hispanic, we want the immigration problem resolved by building a wall and deporting the law breakers. Does it make it right to judge someone by their look? If it is look alone, no. But, generally, if you see someone who is brown who doesn't speak English, then you have found someone who likely is illegal. Right or wrong, the Mexican invaders have brought this upon all fellow Hispanics.

29 posted on 10/29/2010 6:06:18 AM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Hey, Barack "Hubris" Obama, what are you hiding? Release your Birth Certificate!)
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To: South40

“nonpartisan Pew Hispanic Center.”

Nope. PEW is one of the primary propaganda, disinformation and brainwashing arms of the rat party. PEW is thick with commies carrying out the Marxist agenda.


30 posted on 10/29/2010 6:31:58 AM PDT by sergeantdave
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To: cake_crumb

Don’t forget the homos.

The homos are now the primary spearpoint for criminalizing Christian beliefs.


31 posted on 10/29/2010 6:36:15 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a (de)humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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To: IronJack

Indeed it does.


32 posted on 10/29/2010 6:40:41 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: FreeAtlanta
There is a lady at work who looks like a runway model. Tall, thin with a fair complexion who is 100% Hispanic. I never knew she was until we were at a conference and several of us went out for some Mexican food. She ordered in Spanish, since the wait person was Hispanic.

Two of us guys looked at her and asked where she learned Spanish so well and she said, “Well, I am a Mexican”. Neither of us had a clue. She is the same about the illegal problem. The only reason she retained Spanish is to communicate with some of the people in her daughter's school.

33 posted on 10/29/2010 6:40:58 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (Remember in November. Clean the house on Nov. 2. / Progressive is a PC word for liberal democrat.)
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To: hal ogen
Hey, latino fools. It isn’t “backlash” when you are arrested and deported for breaking federal laws. You are a bunch of degenerate law breakers & criminals, you illegal aliens. Go back to your lice-infected loser countries...................and take your bed bugs with you!!!
34 posted on 10/29/2010 6:46:01 AM PDT by varon
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To: TSgt
The media is framing the debate to be about race when it is really about citizenship

Absolutely, its race baiting at its worst. The left cannot exist without it.

35 posted on 10/29/2010 6:57:15 AM PDT by Paradox (Democrats new Motto: Vini, Vidi, Lewinski!)
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To: conejo99

“publicly espouse my views”? WTF does this mean?

My views are illegal immigration is ILLEGAL!!!

If you don’t step up and point it out, regardless of “ancestry” you are condoning it.


36 posted on 10/29/2010 7:05:10 AM PDT by kevslisababy
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To: kevslisababy

You say Hispanics of legal or illegal status better publicly say what you want them to say because you can’t tell then apart from each other.
That sounds like a threat to me. Just what are planning to do if they don’t publicly agree with you? Yell at them? Shoot them?
What if someone of Hispanic ancestry had the timidity to do publicly disagree with you? Even Hispanic Americans are free to hold whatever stupid opinions they wish.


37 posted on 10/29/2010 7:15:17 AM PDT by conejo99
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To: Liz

Don’t you feel safer knowing that Anita Hill’s attorney is in charge of Homeland Security?


38 posted on 10/29/2010 7:19:25 AM PDT by csmusaret (Tax revenue increased 39% from2002 to 2007 as a result of the Bush tax cuts.)
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To: conejo99

I believe I detect a chip on your shoulder.


39 posted on 10/29/2010 7:21:02 AM PDT by kevslisababy
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To: kevslisababy; conejo99
"I believe I detect a chip on your shoulder."

Chip? It sounds like the whole d**n tree.

40 posted on 10/29/2010 7:33:24 AM PDT by BlueLancer (I'm getting a fine tootsy-frootsying right here...)
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