National Review columnist Dennis Prager pens “A Letter from a Republican to Hispanics”:

How many people can this country allow to come in?

The moment you answer that question is the moment you realize that Americans' worries about illegal immigration have nothing to do with “racism” or any negative feeling toward Hispanics.

Those who tell you it is racism or xenophobia are lying about their fellow Americans for political or ideological reasons.

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Democrats will act as your defenders, telling you that opposition to your presence here is race-based. There is no truth to that.

Nothing to do with racism? No truth to that? Really? That doesn't seem right to me:

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Now, given Dennis Prager's comments about Keith Ellison and the Quran, it's possible Prager just doesn't recognize bigotry when he sees it, and sincerely believes there is absolutely no “negative feeling toward Hispanics”in America. But it seems more likely that Prager knows he's badly exaggerating his case. How could he not? And what is his case? That Democrats lie about opposition to immigration in order to score political points.

In short: Dennis Prager is spreading falsehoods about opposition to immigration in order to score political points against Democrats by accusing them of lying about opposition to immigration in order to score political points. He's doing exactly what he purports to denounce Democrats for doing: “lying about their fellow Americans for political or ideological reasons.”