Seriously, I am against illegal immigration. I despise all of the mexican/hispanic bashing that goes on in the name of immigration. It should not matter what the alleged illegal is doing or their ethnicity, so ling as they are illegal --- but so many threads here focus on race etc, it seem that that is the concern not immigration status. The water is muddy.
Personally, I would have more respect if I ever saw one of the many whites 'bums' here in Santa Monica begging for work. They are content in my alley, but the hispanics asking for work are my problem?
It doesn't matter to me, and my experience is that they're actually pretty good people.
But they are breaking the law, and they're not playing by the rules.
My wife is an immigrant, now a U.S. citizen, and we went through 5 years of INS hell to get there. A relative sponsored two unintentional illegals back into lawful compliance, and they also are on the way to citizenship (an INS paperwork screwup).
So don't talk to us about "racism." That's clearly not the point, it's your own delusionary strawman argument for illegal behavior, which is also unfair to legal, sincere immigrants.