Listen to the Latino community leaders. You are dead wrong. Every time
talk of closing the border is mentioned they get on the racist band wagon.

Exactly.

Many Latino leaders feign offense and claim racists are trying to keep out
Latinos. This is standard practice, and is very effective. It scares people
away from the issue.

But look what's happened:

If trying to keep out illegal immigrants equates to racism, and Latino
leaders claim offense, they have unwittingly associated all Latinos with
illegal immigrants (criminals). Thus they've just insulted the whole Latino
community by insinuating all Latinos came here illegally; that the whole lot
of them has no interest in coming to America legally!

It's twisted logic.

Frankie