Jan 18, 2012
The Bible tells us to choose our friends wisely. Last week Governor Mitt Romney chose to make friends with NumbersUSA, a hard line anti-immigrant group, which announced it will spend at least $100,000 to help him win the South Carolina primary.
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Now it's former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney's turn to learn what happens when you don't learn from history. Last week, Romney chose to accept the endorsement of Kris Kobach, a virulently anti-immigrant (and anti-gay, and pro-apartheid) leader who wrote state laws designed to drive immigrants out of Arizona...
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On a day set aside to honor civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr., Mitt Romney plans to tout his extreme immigration positions during a campaign stop in South Carolina today — with Kris Kobach, the author of Arizona's and Alabama's immigration laws, at his side.
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The Rev. Jesse Jackson says people should fight South Carolina's new laws on voter identification and Immigration. Jackson told a crowd of about 400 people at the International Longshoreman's Association Hall in Charleston on Monday night that the Republican-led legislation harkens back to the old South's racist past.
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Yesterday evening, Scott Douglas, executive director of Greater Birmingham Ministries, made an appearance on the Colbert Report to discuss Alabama's monster immigration law, HB 56. On the day Americans were celebrating the memory of our nation's greatest civil rights leader, Douglas invoked the great leader himself.
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Last week, Mitt Romney fully embraced a campaign endorsement from Kris Kobach, the controversial author of the anti-immigrant laws enacted in Arizona, Alabama, South Carolina and elsewhere, a move that will destroy any last hopes he may have had of courting Latino voters in the general election. On...
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Last week, Mitt Romney fully embraced a campaign endorsement from Kris Kobach, the controversial author of the anti-immigrant laws enacted in Arizona, Alabama, South Carolina and elsewhere, a move that will destroy any last hopes he may have had of courting Latino voters in the general election. On...
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As many opponents of immigration reform work hard to make clear, they are against illegal immigration (because "illegal is illegal") and don't have any beef with people who come here through sanctioned means.
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State Sen. Scott Beason said today that he will run for the U.S. House of Representatives in District 6, setting the stage for a battle with current Rep. Spencer Bachus, R-Vestavia Hills. "I'm grateful for all the encouragement and support I have received over the past weeks," Beason...
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Mitt Romney collected the endorsements Wednesday of the architect of Arizona's immigration-crackdown law, marking the final step on a journey that has taken him from lukewarm support of legalization to the Republican presidential field's most ardent opponent of amnesty.
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