The Miami Herald’s Andres Oppenheimer’s Nov 4 column sounded like a threat to touch off a Hispanic intifada if amnesty isn’t granted to illegal aliens:

The rapid escalation of the U.S. anti-immigration hysteria — fueled by ratings-hungry cable-television hotheads and leading Republican presidential hopefuls — is a dangerous trend: It may lead to a Hispanic intifada that may rock this nation in the not-so-distant future.

Remember the Palestinian intifada of the early 1990s, when thousands of frustrated young Palestinians took to the streets and threw stones at Israeli troops? Remember the French intifada of the summer of 2005, in which disenfranchised Muslim youths burned cars and stores in the suburbs of Paris?

If we are not careful, we may see something similar coming from the estimated 13 million undocumented immigrants in the United States, most of them Hispanic, who are increasingly vilified in the media, forced further into the underground by spineless politicians and not given any chance to legalize their status by a pusillanimous U.S. Congress.

Here’s Oppenheimer on CNN, battling FAIR’s Dan Stein, over whether the column was a threat or merely a warning. Pay attention to the way the CNN host Rick Sanchez tries to corner Stein into supporting “comprehensive immigration reform,” meaning amnesty.