I'm writing from my hometown, Mount Shasta, California. I thought that there were no illegals out here. According to wikipedia, the Hispanic population in my town is a surprising 5.83%, I used to be able to count them on two hands.

I've tried to spread the message of ALIPAC to my friends, and they responded by calling me fascist, ignorant, and racist. One of my friends commented that he knew an exceptional illegal named Pedro, who was working twelve hour shifts to help his family with medical bills in Mexico. Pedro lived here when I was a teenager, I met him too but didn't know that he was illegal, not much to attract me to him, he could barely speak English. My friend liked him, because he bought him beer. My friend would prefer one exploited illegal immigrant to work the eqivalent of nearly two shifts, instead of empower the native worker. Other signs of invasion are that there is a mexican burritto place, that gives you little mexican flags whenever you order to go.

Since my town is still over 90% Non-Hispanic I didn't expect this hostility from friends on this issue. There's hope, a few of them know it's a crucial issue, and the video store downtown is promoting Ron Paul. [/i]