Reports decry hate in debate on immigrants

A local TV crew was shooting a live morning report about Lisa Dupre’s Sacramento preschool, where toddlers can learn yoga, etiquette and Spanish as a second language.

The phone rang – the first response, Dupre thought, to an on-air invitation for parents to get more information. She let her answering machine pick up.

“I thought this was America, not Mexico. This is English only,” she heard a voice growl when she later listened. “That’s why we’ve got a problem with illegal aliens – because people like you are trying to change California into Mexico.”
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The Alabama-based Southern Poverty Law Center has produced reports on anti-Latino rhetoric, and the Anti-Defamation League, founded to expose anti-Semitism, issued a report in October called, “Immigrants Targeted: Extremist Rhetoric Moves Into the Mainstream.”"*

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