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Because it IS about race. If you are not putting the same effort or restrictions on both borders and using guidelines that single out groups of people when other 'illegals' exist at the same time, then that is racism.
Per the previous post about the Irish - 50,000 'illegal' Irish live in NYC. Congressmen are bending over backwards to find ways to make them legal. At the same time many of these same Congressmen are supporting the law in Arizona.
It's not that hard to connect the dots.
There are many European 'illegals' in America, millions literally, yet none of these laws seem to target them, and the language in them along with the accompanying rhetoric we see put forth by the backers of these measures seem to discard that.
Racism is singling out a group for persecution. In this case, it is the Mexican, because no one is arguing that the illegals working at your local Chinese restaurant, or the Irish at you local pub need to go, but for some reason the Mexicans are the ones people have decided to take aim at.
In fact, many people deal with illegals all the time, its just since they are white or non-Mexican most don't even think about it.
It reminds me of The Simpsons episode they did on this very topic, when they wanted to get rid of all illegals, until they found out Apu was illegal, then the town banded together to save him, as they did not even think that their friend would be included in the name-less, face-less statistics they were sending away.
I mean, it is pretty bad when a state decides to follow through with a law that even an episode of The Simpsons took the piss out of years before they even decided to try.
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