Notice that they avoid mentioning the legal status of these "immigrants." I'm glad you brought this out, I was going to but forgot. (I'm still working on my first cup of coffee.)
I have noticed that the press has been doing this a lot lately.
When they start refering to those living in the Southwest as the American occupiers as many of the Aztlan groups do then get ready for the fun and games. Once the lamestream press starts parroting this stupidity the end is near.
Speaking as one who has lived most of his life in New York, with the remainder being spent in Chicago and South Florida, I have seen both the best and the worst when it comes to immigration. I do believe, however, that although I believe that the laws on the books must be more strongly enforced (INS is a joke), the anti-immigrant zealots on this board need to calm down and take a more balanced approach (the same can be said about the "open all the borders crowd," but they are not present on this site). The "old stock" immigrants included many criminals and many hardworking people, their presence caused property taxes to go up (think of all those public schools that needed to be built in New York in the late 19th/early 20th century) and they, for the most part, voted for the party of government. These were the worst things about my great-grandparents wave of immigration and they are happening again. (Don't give me that BS about that artificial cold-war created entity known as "the third world." The avereage Mexican or Central American is, thanks to television and shopping centers in his own country, just "westernized" than his illiterate Italian counterpary a century ago).
If I were a California WASP, maybe I would be shocked by the effects of immigration and move to a compound in Idaho. In Chicago and New York, immigrants are merely entering areas settled and vacated by other ethnic groups. In South Florida, immigrants are merely replacing Senior Citizen Liberal Democrat transplants from New York. My only objection to the new immigrants is that they vote for the American Socialist Party, as did all of the old members of my family. If we 1. end family reunification and 2. enforce existing law, much of our "problems" will disappear.