No, being against legal immigration would be racist. Being against illegal immigration is common sense. Legal immigrants get a good schooling on our countrys history and laws, a schooling better than some of our children get from our schools. I've seen some of the tests they have to pass and trust me, they aren't easy at all.

Again, rewarding immigrants who make an effort to join our nation and punishing those who flaunt our nation by thinking they are entitled to come in no matter what equals common sense, right?

And it's not like Mexico is a horrible hellhole. Sure it has it's fair share of problems and corruption and I wouldn't say it's on the whole a better place to live then the US, but it also has some nice cities, nice beaches and a long history to enjoy and you can make a decent life there. It's not like it's Cuba's Castro or something that justifies people fleeing anarchly en masse here from there without regards to the impact on our economy and laws and claiming it was a life or death situation.

So when does it end, Bernard?  We'll just keep letting people in--and then what?

Color has nothing to do with this argument.  It's about knowing who is here (heard of terrorists trying to kill us, Bernard?)

Aren't the Open Border proponents insulting the intelligence of the illegals by assuming they are incapable of handling the legal route with paperwork, etc.? Who's really the racist?

I wonder what Bernie would say if a lot of Canadians were streaming over our border?  Would he be thrilled with an influx of illegal white people?

As for diversity, it's neither good or bad.  It just is.  Diversity needs some sort of unifying principle, or else it leads to chaos.  A bunch of people all going their own way without any commitment to a common culture can only tear a nation apart.

When you put the clowns in charge, don't be surprised when a circus breaks out.

I guess most people would think there is no good type of racism.  However, if defending your country's borders against an invading army of foriegn nationals whose design it is to overthrow America and turn it into a state of La Raza, then there is a good type of racism.  We should practice it everyday or America as we know it will cease to exist.  I still think that most Americans have no idea how great the threat is from the Mexican invasion.  When most of you finally realize that the invaders have no intention of assimilating, it will be too late.

They come from all different countries and races. Shaw shows that he is willing to use racism as a hammer so as to try and close off debate. It's a "do you still beat your wife" statement.

Just because someone is living in a place does not make them the rightfull owner or even a rightfull tenant.

There are a much larger % of asians in the medical fields because of that cultures emphasis on education. Does Shaw advocate giving some of those positions to less qualified people simply to ballance out the racial numbers? Now, that is racism!

What's scary is that this man was once in the news (i.e., information) industry.  How could he be so clueless about a subject?

If the line of demarcation were race or color, our borders would be closed right now.  As it stands (sorry you didn't get the briefing on this, Bernie), people of all races have been coming to this country for decades (indeed, pretty much since 1776) and lawfully become citizens. 

 In point of fact, it is Shaw who is being disrespectful of those IMMIGRANTS to the United States who chose to do the right and honorable thing by complying with our immigration laws.

Race card played because he can't win on facts. 

Best way to look at this is whenever they turn to race card, they admit the other side is correct, factualy correct, objectively correct, correct for nation & culture, legally correct, just not politically correct.

Political correctness is just a weak, co-dependent's path to  avoid the facts and truth.

I'm sure Bernie discusses racism and the struggle every day with his black neighbors. You know, the one 3 acres away to the right of his mansion and the other half a mile down the road, the house with the olympic style pools.

"'Race' is nothing more than a social construct. It holds only as much
meaning as people choose to give it. There is nothing 'scientific' or
'biological' about the arbitrary lines drawn between 'white' and 'black
and 'yellow'. The old-school definitions of 'Mongoloid', 'Negroid' and
'Caucasoid' as the 3 primary races do not encompass the diversity of
our planet.

For example, the Australoid people fall into none of these
categories. Europeans may think Australians resemble black Africans,
and think of them as 'Negroid', but genetically, they are the most
unrelated people in the world.

And the Khoisan peoples of Africa are
not Negroid, Mongoloid or Caucasoid. Caucasoids are characterized by
'tall stature' in dictionary definitions, but the largest people in the
world are the Pacific Islanders, who hail from 'Mongoloid' stock."

http://www.colorq.or...

...Unless you're perpetuating victimhood, of course. Then all bets are off.

CNN! Keeping racism alive and bigotry fat and shiny!

Oh, bull - Bernie Shaw.

Shaw should read around a bit more. He might discover that there is a world of informed folks out there who would take great offense in his narrow racist view.

How about the late Barbara Jordan, (D) TX. The Congressial Blackk Caucus created an award in her name, the BARBARA JORDAN AWARD.

Her views:

'As a nation with a long history of immigration and commitment to the rule of law, this country must set limits on who can enter and then credibly enforce our immigration law.

[..]

..we disagree with those who would label efforts to control immigration as being inherently anti-immigrant. Rather, it is both a right and a responsibility of a democratic society to manage immigration so that it serves the national interest.

Or how about the Father of Earth Day, former Senator Gaylor Nelson, (D)

We are preparing to celebrate the 32nd Earth Day just after the Census Bureau has announced that far from winding down in the 1990s, U.S. population growth boomed at its highest level in the nation's history! Not even the peak of the Baby Boom in the 1950s added as many people! This new population boom represents a profound failure in our nation's pursuit of environmental quality. Since 1970, another 80 million people have been added to the country. Every environmental goal has been delayed because of this failure.

Mr. Shaw. You are partly responsible for that "profound failure."

Honestly, I have atleast 5 black friends that feel the same way I do about illegal immigration: IT IS WRONG and the illegals should be deported and charged a fine. This has NOTHING to do with race.

When will people like Shaw, Sharpton, Jackson, NAACP, and SLC stop looking at the color and start looking at the crime.

This is not a racism issue. I believe most Americans do not care what color you are or even where you come from. They just want you to be in this country LEGALLY. Why do people insist on mixing the two and makiing anti-amnesty Americans out to be racists and bigots??

 The left never ceases to amaze me......they nauseate me.

So Bernie the bigot thinks that people of color, whatever that means, are in a battle? Bring it on Jesse! I mean Bernie! Take your one way racism and put it where the sun don't shine.