It is nothing different from the welfare bashing that we saw in the last Congress. My colleague. the gentleman from Massachusetts said it really well. They are playing upon a perception here. They are bashing poor people just as they bashed Immigrants. Make no mistake. if the immigrants had been Irish overstays. there would not have been half the impetus to pass that bill and go after immigrants. It was the perception of HispanicAmericans coming across the southwestern border of this country. the anecdotal mythology about legal immigrants and illegal inmigrants. They did not even want to make the distinction between legal immigrants and Illegal immigrants. What I am saying. Mr.
Identified stereotypes
Generalization about Hispanic Americans crossing the border.