Here's an article from the Associated Press, basically accusing anyone for secure immigration of being a racist:
Immigration debate stirs racial tensions
By ERIN TEXEIRA
AP National Writer
NEW YORK (AP) -- As the fight over immigration reform drags on, an ominous undercurrent to the debate - racism - is becoming more pronounced.
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Sociologist Gonzalo Santos of California State University at Bakersfield said immigration is just the latest example of social policy issues taking on racial overtones in America.

"People talk about immigration as if race doesn't matter, saying 'No, I don't have anything against immigrants or Mexicans, it's just the illegal part of it I don't like.' But those are code words," he said. "We experience race in this country through issues like welfare policy, anti-poverty programs and now immigration."
I'd post something for tribesy, but he's really his own refutation.

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