also via feministing...

check out this article at the salon about the proposed florida immigration bill. though i've never heard a compelling argument to make me believe that immigration bills are rooted in anything but racism, this florida bill takes it to a whole different level. the bill is designed to specifically target immigrants of color and provides an exemption for white immigrants:

What few observers seem to have noticed, though, is a bizarre clause Snyder included on page 3. Even if an officer has "reasonable suspicions" over a person's immigration status, the bill says, a person will be "presumed to be legally in the United States" if he or she provides "a Canadian passport" or a passport from any "visa waiver country."
What are the visa waiver countries? Other than four Asian nations, all 32 other countries are in Western Europe, from France to Germany to Luxembourg.

i'm not going to lie, i've only read a few articles about this, so i'm not as knowledgeable as i'd like to be. but really, how can you make an argument that immigration legislation is anything but racist when bills like this exist to specifically exempt immigrants who look white (well, more specifically, do not look mexican or cuban).