"Because i get the feeling that according to the left, such a desire to protect the ethnic and cultural integrity of a country is in itself racist and supremacist. This is why in a sense to talk about the crimes committed by the immigrants is a red-herring. The reason many white Americans don't want immigrants from South America is that those immigrants belong to an alien culture and an alien race. Whites who grew up in neighborhoods filled with people of the same culture and race may be weary of inviting a large number of people who look different, who behave differently, who speak a different language etc. Is that in itself evil? Is it racist? Because that is what the left seems to believe. Of course, they only believe that for white people. They have no issues with Mexicans waving the Mexican flag once they come to America. Ethnic identity for me but not for thee, and all that, right?"