“This issue is tearing apart our state, our families and our communities,” he said. “We have to find a way to come together and help people.”
Immigrant-rights groups have raised questions about whether the issue is part of an anti-immigration agenda. But critics of illegal immigration have said anything less than a proof-of-legal-presence standard opens the way to drug trafficking and terrorists.
Same old crap. If you enforce the law against illegal immigrants, then you are a racist opposed to all immigrants.
How I respond to that...
I just say "yep, it is racist."
Your friends will know it isn't true, your enemies and the traitors won't believe it no matter what you say, but it does shut them up.