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For some reason, Tony Snow seems to equate illegal miscreants with good, hardworking Hispanics. I have no doubt the two sets intersect

And they do intersect, rather significantly. I've personally known many Mexican immigrants who fit that description, and I'm sure at least some were illegals -- I never asked.

It's difficult for me to place nice, hard-working folks who're looking for a better life -- into the same classification as drug dealers and gang-bangers. Call me names if you'd like, but they're not the same sort of "criminal."

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The unfortunate problem is, mixed in with all these hardworking folks are the drug-dealers, gang-bangers, and possibly terrorists, as well as people with other agendas, such as creating Aztlan or making the southwest United States part of Mexico again. We have no way, absent comprehensive background checks, of just letting these people in en masse, as far as I know.

Hardworking they may be, but you must have an eyebrow raised when you see them marching down the street with Mexican flags in American cities or calling for socialist-style 1-day all-Latino strikes, not to mention that recent inciteful billboard that said "Los Angeles, Mexico."