GERARD:I’ll bet it’s hard for you to believe but: I FOR THE MOST PART AGREE WITH EVERYTHING YOU SAID HERE. And, I almost always enjoy your posts on any topic.

    Wanting American immigration law enforced and people to enter the country legally does not make me a racist. When someone tries to silence my concern by painting me as as a racist because of my belief the “racecard” becomes an airball. It’s used by the latino community to inflame the issue. They are the only ones I ever hear shouting “racist”. It’s a vampire tactic and it angers me.

    I have family on both sides of both borders and I’m not comfortable with the latino-militant separatist violence I’ve personally experienced in the last decade. All Americans have paid and continue to pay serious dues and color is secondary in my book.——We’re all “special”.

    The difference between any typical white or (what you call) brown person is less than the total range of differences inside any particular group. Lets get us all a living wage, a future with meaning, some basic social support, an opportunity for education and PLEASE, ASK THOSE “SPECIAL” BROWN PEOPLE TO NOT SPIT ON ME AND POINT GUNS IN MY DIRECTION. And, stop the black market,human trafficing, illegal documents, drug sales, kidnapping, theft and murder that has grown up around
the illegals issue.

    ENFORCE IMMIGRATION LAW AND JAIL CORPORATE THUG EMPLOYERS NOW. NO MORE AMNESTY EVER!! GET LEGAL OR GET OUT!!

I understand that California has an almost identical law on the books.

Dear RedHorse:  How is racism an “airball”?  From the looks of some online Aztlan sites, Aztlan looks more like militant anti-discrimination exploiting all of the sad results of years of oppression, and seems to support other anti-discrimination causes worldwide, working for a more or less angry “unity of the oppressed”—which should be no surprise to anyone at this point in history.
  It’s a piebald cinch that whites are going to have to come down off their high horses and deal more fairly with “people of color”,  more realistically than simply “divide and exploit.” In that sense, Arizona-like laws are moving in the wrong direction.  That’s not to say that the Federal law is any better.
  Let’s get together and speak truth to each other in hope for “the family of man” before it gets any later.

I’ve stated before, and continue to believe, that the American latino political machine has been the main culprit in the exploitation of racial division and use of the “racecard” to silence rational dialogue around the “illegals” issue.

      My State is over 50% latino and also has better than a 50% high school drop out rate. For years I’ve listened to American latino leaders here complain about evil “western culture” (code word for white people bad). I’m not suprised that latino school officials in L.A. would use classrooms to further drive a wedge between latinos and other Americans. Division and a separate nation is the goal. Viva Aztlan!!

      Since introduction of the Arizona law, crime has shifted to our borders. Last week they busted a drug smuggling crew here. The driver was a Mexican illegal busted and deported over 10 times for crimes inside the United States. It’s everyday stuff.  That’s what the Az. law is about. People are tired of the crime. The “racecard” is an airball.

“This development was not pleasing to some L.A.-area Republicans, according to Fox News”

People are way more complicated then they get credit for in our political system.

Hey, let’s separate 300 millionish individuals into two opposing parties and watch them attempt to have input in the decisions that often effect their lively hoods.

If it starts a civil war we will just smoke cigars and sell them weapons and ammunition.

typical filthy manipulative marketing group garbage and filth!

It is all well and good to criticize Arizona’s race-baiting law, but—the problem is finger-pointing—as though L.A. doesn’t have it’s own problems to solve by doing a better job than exclusion, second-class citizenship, denial of equal rights, police prejudice against people of color on every street, every day.  How about leading the way in a city-wide program to raise money for failing public schools with stopped-up toilets and mouldy ceilings?  How about crumbling facilities and prejudice between rich and poor districts?  “Let him who is without sin ....”