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A Banner Week for Right Wing Xenophobia

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus4/30/2010 11:00:54 am PDT

“We as Americans have the right to defend this country’s laws. There’s nothing racist about protecting the country”

Sue Schwartz says she’s been called a racist so many times she doesn’t mind the label anymore. If wanting immigrants to enter the country legally, like her great-grandparents from Mexico, and obey the laws of the land makes her racist, then so be it, she says firmly.

“I’m getting to the point I wear it with pride,” says Schwartz, a lifelong Arizonan who has warily watched the growth of the illegal immigrant population in the state over the course of her life.

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