Democrats look at these people who came to the US as children and the promise of America.  They are the next generation of entrepreneurs hustling a living to support their families and pushing their children to go beyond where they could.  We look at them and see our grandparent or great-grandparents where the antecedents of the current generation of while nationalists and their ilk called us Wops, Micks, Polacks, Chinks and a dozen other racial slurs indicating that somehow we were less than full humans.  The same people who still think these slurs are still working to find ways to cut us all up into "the others" to enhance their once privileged position.  They think that nobody but them deserve the benefits of America and their jingoism is weakening our nation.