[JackWhite]

If you don't like racism involved in the debate, you should start with the Mexican-American groups like La Raza, and especially Mecha. La Raza means "race" and the official slogan of Mecha is: "For the Race, everything. For those outside the race, nothing." Hard to imagine a more blatantly racist slogan to have. I could imagine the KKK having the same slogan.

Mecha, an organination that has included prominent California politicians like Antonio Villaraigosa and Cruz Bustamante, has this gem as part of their Constitution. Referring to what they call "Aztlan" (we call it the Southwest US):

"Aztlan belongs to those who plant the seeds, water the fields, and gather the crops and not to the foreign Europeans. We do not recognize capricious frontiers on the bronze continent.... We declare the independence of our mestizo nation...Nationalism as the key to organization transcends all religious, political, class, and economic factions or boundaries. Nationalism is the common denominator that all members of La Raza agree upon."

Miguel Perez of the Cal State Northridge chapter of Mecha said, "The ultimate ideology is the liberation of Aztlan.... Non-Chicanos would have to be expelled.... opposition groups would have to be quashed because you have to keep the power."

So Non-Chicanos would have to be expelled and opposition groups would have to be quashed. There is racism involved in this debate, and plenty comes from these types of groups.