One of the things that astonished me about last summer's new immigrant marches in American streets was the ferocious xenophobia that they stirred among Americans. Survey after survey showed that, far from rousing public sentiment to the plight of illegal aliens and the struggles of new Americans to settle in the Land of Opportunity, these shows of Latin-American solidarity roused fear and revulsion among a wide swath of Americans who generally agree on little: racists, the unemployed and under-employed, crime-obsessed conservatives, white xenophobic homeowners who equate immigration with lower property values, libertarians who equate immigration with more demands on public health and education systems they would like to see dismantled, and even environmentalists who equate immigration with more suburban sprawl, pollution, population pressure on wilderness lands, and resource depletion.

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