Hispanics find growing enmity
"Miguel Muoz was standing in a drug store parking lot having a conversation in Spanish when a pickup pulled up beside him. The driver shouted curses, shook his fist and called Muoz an "illegal alien."
"He said, 'When you come to my country, you need to speak English,'" said Muoz, a Durham lawyer who immigrated legally from Mexico 17 years ago.
In that parking lot, Muoz said, he realized for the first time that some people see him as an invader in his own home.
As furor over illegal immigration rises across the nation, many Hispanics say they are increasingly the targets of hostility in a state where they once felt welcome."
KRISTIN COLLINS in the Myrtle Beach [S.C.] Sun News.