Thanks for the reply. I appreciate the chance to at least try to make my point clearer. I meant that people who say deporting Mexicans (for example) is racist are incorrect because Mexican, Guatemalan, Honduran, even American, is a person's nationality, not race. Deporting illegal aliens is based on their not being American ("what nationality they aren't") not their race. And, yes, because they have committed a crime. Does that make sense? :)