From Recordnet.com:
Complicating and confounding efforts to reform the country's immigration laws are widespread portrayals of Mexican immigrants as a threat to national culture and unity, Leo Chavez, an author and anthropology professor at the University of California, Irvine, said Tuesday night in a lecture at University of the Pacific.  
 
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