Three busloads of illegal immigrants were traveling to a Border Patrol intake facility in a town called Murrietta in California when the buses they were riding were blocked by screeching citizens of the town. Despite assurances the passengers, who were mostly mothers and children, were not going to stay in their lovely little burg in Riverside County north of San Diego, the mostly white residents protested, picketed, waved poorly-spelled signs, and generally made fools of themselves.

Seeing these images reminded me of the shrieking mobs that threatened those black kids trying to integrate Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas in 1957.

Then:

Now:

I don’t like or admire some of my fellow Americans very much.