Once upon a time, Mitt Romney was enamored with a certain Kansas Secretary of State named Kris Kobach, a disarmingly handsome lawyer known for authoring state anti-immigrant bills across the nation, including SB 1070 in Arizona and HB 56 in Alabama. In Kris, Mitt found someone who truly spoke to the right-wing base...
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House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith is holding yet another hearing on his proposal for mandatory E-Verify. A blog post by Dara Lind, program associate at America’s Voice Education Fund, highlights Smith’s strong reliance on the “experts” from the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), an anti-immigrant think tank founded...
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Under fire for Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” law and reeling after the recent loss of support from Pepsi, Coca-Cola, and Kraft Foods, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) announced today that they would begin focusing their efforts solely on economic issues, rather than social and cultural issues. The news...
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In Case You Missed It, please see the ThinkProgress piece below on Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach’s comments regarding his role in Mitt Romney’s campaign – which appear to contradict a Romney advisor assertions that Kobach is a mere “supporter.” View the full piece at ThinkProgress here. Kobach...
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