This is off the SPLC web site below
NC] Politicians leap aboard anti-immigration bandwagon
The Charlotte Observer / August 21, 2005

...For a growing number of Americans and North Carolinians, illegal immigration has gotten closer to home. And for a growing number of politicians, it's an issue to jump on.

DWI charges against an illegal Mexican immigrant in the death of a Mount Holly man -- and the failure of both the legal and immigration systems to keep him off the road -- inflamed passions.

"The main word is illegal, and if they're here illegally we need to be sending them back," Eddie Hartman of Huntersville told a packed meeting in Gastonia Tuesday night.

Bill Gheen, president of the Raleigh-based Americans for Legal Immigration, says illegal immigration "is the end of America as we know it."... "The intensity is with the door-closers," says pollster John Zogby, referring to those who favor hard-line measures such as this year's volunteer Minutemen border-patrollers.

"What changed in the last few years is the extent to which the debate is being dominated by extremes, especially on the anti-immigration side," says Cecilia Munoz, a vice president of the National Council of La Raza, a Hispanic civil rights group. "All the heated rhetoric makes it harder to move forward."

http://www.splcenter.org/intel/news/item.jsp?aid=18

I guess they are watching us all. Yes Joe American the SPLC is watching you.