Already, whenever a family member tells the story of escaping Fidel's regime, I feel the need to insert, "Legally!" every few minutes so that there's no misunderstanding. In other words, law-abiding immigrants don't want them anymore than born-Americans do. That was all I was trying to say.
The illegals want to use the race card in hopes of enlisting help from all "hispanics". They WANT to turn it into a race thing. It would be to their advantage.. or so they think.
Interestingly enough, Hispanics are caucasian. If we look technically at race here in this question... well.. we are all the same race, spotted dog mixtures and all.. No.. It is more an ethnic thing. And even there it is not monolithic.. as I pointed out in my other post.
Rather, the ethnic thing is one from a negative value. In other words, NOT white of "european" descent. Therefore, the unifying degree is one from a negative under the banner of a non-existant positive.
So it's under the guise of a non-existant monolithic Spanish ethnicity, but it is really one of "Spanish speaking but not lily-white". Heck, Cubans BARELY make this threshhold if at all, because Cuban heritage is as much Castillian as it is Latin American.. thus "european" as it were.