HiJinx, get a load of this:
http://www.themountaineer.com/archives/2005/04/04/ourviews_immigrationfuelsvita.html
Moonyham shills the open border advocates' message just like a well-trained parrot by opening with "Xenophobic".
Wow. Folks, Rush and other good communicators and debaters have been saying this for how long now?
Words have meaning. And the words you use to shape the debate are powerful. By casting those against illegal immigration as bigots rather than patriots, the author of the linked article is shaping the debate.
That is why the other side had been winning up until now.
As North Carolina's immigrant population has grown, so too has the debate over what it all means.
Xenophobic responses to the tremendous surge in the Hispanic population throughout the state shouldn't be that surprising.
Oh, brother!
As North Carolina's immigrant illegal alien population has grown, so too has the debate over what it all means.
Xenophobic In response to the tremendous surge in the Hispanic illegal alien population throughout the state, citizens calling for the enforcement of immigration law shouldn't be that surprising.
Xenophobics are made, not born. I used to buy into the open borders crap until I saw what it was doing to Europe. Not all immigrants mean us well and immigration isn't necessarily good for the country.
"Huddled masses" once came to this country yearning to breathe free, now they yearn for freebies.
Ah yes, the familiar last refuge of our own FOQNA-class here on Free Republic.