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# GOP banking on broken borders
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/gop-banking-on-broken-borders-editor/
- Published: 2007-08-22T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-24T02:37:14.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*By Ron Lowe Santa Monica*

There is nothing patriotic about white anti-immigration groups targeting a whole segment of society — Mexicans, Latinos and hard-working immigrants. Discrimination, prejudice and intolerance characterizes the anti-immigration movement, so why does the Republican party embrace and give sanctuary to these pundits of bigotry?

Every day on the buses I hear and see angry white folk spewing out their hatred toward hard-working Mexicans. It’s like deja vu ’50s all over again, when whites demonized blacks.

The GOP will use border politics — politics of division — as their mainstay in the 2008 elections to shift attention away from the failed war in Iraq. It plays well to core supporters and lowest common denominator of the party.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on August 22, 2007.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/082207.pdf?ref=smdp.com)