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.