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Leading anti-immigrant zealots in Congress, and controversial allied organizations like the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), are busy today promoting several events and new studies that, shockingly, call for hard-line action against immigrants and mass deportation of undocumented workers. Between a new CIS "study" that tries to paint...
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In the latest attempt to derail health care reform by blaming immigrants, Rep. Steve King (R-IA) is up to the same old tricks – only this time, King wants to restrict access to the free market by individuals willing to pay for their own healthcare.
What set King off were...
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King’s perspective on the Postville raid, and his likening immigrants to cattle, are just two examples of a Congressional leader out of step with mainstream America and in step with the most disturbing arm of the extreme anti-immigrant movement. The Congressman’s record is the focus of...
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Many in Republican circles have already recognized the need to distance themselves from King and his anti-immigration politics. Former McCain campaign manager Rick Davis said in an interview yesterday that for the Republican Party to win in the future, the GOP has "to change its attitude" toward Latinos....
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At MSNBC today, Steve Benen points out the recent election-year Republican hypocrisy behind a series of ads attacking Democrats for supporting an immigration reform bill that 14 GOP Senators voted for. First, there was Michelle Nunn, the Democratic Senate candidate in Georgia who was blasted by the National Republican Senatorial Committee...
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Yesterday, NBC’s Chuck Todd was busy hyping a new “exclusive” poll sponsored by NBC News and Esquire Magazine on what those two media entities refer to as “The New American Center.” Frankly, the story was more befitting of NBC’s entertainment division than its news division. The poll was conducted by Joel...
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It’s Hispanic Heritage month, and one faction of the House GOP is busy putting out videos trying to cover up the fact that it has taken no action on immigration reform legislation that would help the 11 million. A second faction is waving the “hell, no!” flag and is trying...
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Jun 23, 2010
Despite heavy criticism for his accusation that Obama has a "default mechanism" that favors, "the black person," House Rep. Steve King continues to defend his comments while ridiculing the media.
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Michigan Democrats have stripped a GOP lawmaker of his committee assignments and authority over his staff after he platformed bigoted and antisemitic conspiracy theory shared by a notorious far-right troll. Democratic leadership took action after GOP state Rep. Josh Schriver shared a tweet “with the text ‘The great replacement!’...
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White supremacist conspiracy theories about non-white migrants replacing white people and precipitating the downfall of the nation have percolated for over a century. Its modern incarnation, the “great replacement theory,” had previously been confined to the dark corners of American politics, but in the last few years, politicians and...
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