It really is hard to listen to some of the rightist punditry on the immigration debate and not conclude that it’s being driven, at least in part, by racism.
Why else would these people be floating highly speculative estimates on how tens or hundreds of millions of immigrants will flood in, and then darkly note how this will change the culture and power structure of our country? I suspect this same kind of rhetoric has been used every time America has seen a concentrated influx of immigrants from an out-of-vogue ethnic group.