The Houston Chronicle reports that the National Council of La Raza has launched a site to counter anti-immigrant " hate speech" engaged in by politicians and pundits.

The website itself is located at www.wecanstopthehate.org. 

From the Chron article:

Murguia said La Raza wanted executives at Fox, CNN and MSNBC "to take the hate and vigilante groups off the air." And, she asked for political candidates to pledge "to renounce hate speech and sever their ties with ... hate groups.

In particular, Murguia singled out:

• CNN's Lou Dobbs, who she said "routinely provides a platform for vilifying immigrants on his 'Broken Borders' segment," a regular feature on Dobbs' nightly broadcast.
• MSNBC commentator Pat Buchanan, who has written a book denouncing illegal immigration.
• Radio and TV personality Glenn Beck, who once described on-air a fake ad created by a listener about fuel made from the bodies of illegal Mexican immigrants.

Today's opinion selection comes for the American Spectator. Written by Myron Magnet, the piece centers around whether it's "anti-immigration" to be anti-immigration reform.

Here's a key excerpt:

I'm embarrassed it took me so long to grasp the phoniness of the charge that it's "anti-immigration" to oppose current U.S. immigration policy and the even worse "comprehensive reform" bill, which thankfully failed. I can only plead blind piety. After all, I live in the great immigrant metropolis, lit by the Statue of Liberty's torch, under which all my grandparents sailed a century ago to reach a land that amply fulfilled its promise to them. I feared that my misgivings about today's immigrant flood were but a short step from the nativist know-nothingism that dismissed my forebears and their fellow newcomers as defective both mentally and culturally, sure to debase American society with their ignorance, poverty, and crudity. Isn't the lesson of my grandparents' generation simply this: that American freedom and opportunity have a special magic, an alchemy for transforming tired, poor, huddled masses into free American citizens whose energy and grateful patriotism, and whose progeny, greatly strengthened the nation? However unpromising today's largely uneducated and unskilled immigrants may appear, do they really look any worse than their predecessors.

This may not come as a surprise, given past coverage, but here's another article that talks about immigration hard-liners who are starting worry about the idea of a McCain White House.

The Los Angeles Daily News reports that some GOPers claim they'll stay home and not vote in the November general election if John McCain is the Republican nominee.

Here's one that got us: Ann Coulter said she'd vote for Hillary Clinton over John McCain. Hm.

NumbersUSA, one of the biggest anti-illegal immigration organizations, has launched a campaign that seeks to inform conservative voters of where John McCain stands on immigration, reports the Caucus blog of the New York Times.

From their post:

Roy Beck, the president of NumbersUSA, one of the biggest of those organizations, sent out an e-mail action alert early this morning that he said went to 1.5 million members. Warning of “political illiteracy” among Republican voters that “threatens disastrous consequences,” Mr. Beck cited a Washington Post/ABC News poll over the weekend showing that 47 percent of Republican voters most trusted McCain on immigration, while 22 percent trusted Mitt Romney. Mr. Beck disputed Mr. McCain’s recent statements that his priority is border security. “About the only time McCain has backed more security on the border is when it is tied to amnesty,” he said, using conservatives’ term for policies giving legal status to illegal immigrants, which Mr. McCain has long defended and Mr. Beck has long opposed.

This campaign will likely go into full-drive after McCain's strong showing in Super Tuesday last night.

This dispatch comes to us from Grapevine, Tex., where elementary students and their parents are fighting Timberline Elementary -- a public school -- which requires all students to take Spanish.

Some kids and parents believe it's not fair that they have to study Spanish even if there is a burgeoning Hispanic population in the school district. Others believe the required language lessons will help their kids.

What's your take?

(Thanks to Mary for the tip.)