Reply #35: I don't know why you're assuming that to be concerned about the

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numbers of illegal immigrants is racist. If white Canadians were flocking through the borders, willing to take jobs with pay and conditions unacceptable to U.S. citizens, that would be just as much of a problem.

My sister back east lives in a suburban school district where her children have had no illegal immigrants in their classes. Actually, they have had no legal immigrants either. Not a single ESL kid.

In my district, last I heard there were something like 60 languages, and the fair-skinned freckle faced kid may well turn out to be ESL, too.

Having said all that, I think that something most everyone here could agree on, and so maybe where we should start, is that any law that says illegals, and the people who try to help them, should be turned into felons, is wrong.