Immigration

Just got off the phone with the Eccentric Uncle. We chatted about a couple of things, and the conversation touched on the U.S. debate on immigration. His (paraphrased) comments are as follows:

"Why is it that when we have a war protest here with 500 participants, we have all kinds of mayhem. Cars turned over, stuff burned, policemen injured. But they can have a 500,000 Mexicans in a pro-immigration march, the whole thing set up with two days notice, and there is not so much as a scuffle? I can only conclude that we are thinking about deporting the wrong people. Let the Mexicans stay and deport half a million asshats."

Background: Eccentric Uncle lives near San Francisco, where I think their protest marches are full of anarchists, communists, and violent psychopaths. Eccentric Uncle is not particularly enamoured of either the Iraq war or President Bush.