They Love to Hate

Teresa Watanabe writes in the Los Agneles Times about hate groups that are stirring up anti-immigrant sentiment again. I just don't understand how human beings can hate other human beings so much.

Supporters of a California ballot initiative, recently unveiled by San Diego political activist Ted Hilton, hope to challenge the citizenship of children born in the United States to parents who are here illegally. The plan would end public benefits for undocumented immigrants, cut off welfare payments for their children and impose new rules for birth certificates.

The drive coincides with decisions in several states -- including Oklahoma, Colorado Virginia, Arizona and Georgia -- to curtail medical care, mortgage loans, homeless shelter relief and other benefits for undocumented immigrants amid the national economic downturn. Click here for the rest of the story.

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