Replies

Most Hispanics prefer tighter enforcement of immigration laws. Certainly beefing up the Border Patrol and requiring illegal immigrants to return to their countries of origin before participating in a guest worker program are not things that would be the least bit offensive to any voting Hispanic citizen.

you'd never get that impression by listening to Hispanic radio and TV and reading Hispanic print media. The number one issue is amesty and how to get their illegal brothers and sisters "out of the shadows" - they criticize Bush's plan as not going far enough to bail out their illegal family and friends. And Hispanic citizens will fight tooth and nail against the deportation of members of their community.

I think a distinction needs to be made between legal Hispanic residents and Hispanic citizens. The Hispanic Poder magazine recently conducted a poll that found 56% of Hispanics favoring tighter immigration controls. Also, I wasn't talking about actual deportation (though I'm not opposed to that either), but about only accepting guest worker applications from people in foreign countries, so that illegals here would have to go back in order to apply.