Right Wing Watch has a video of Stephen Steinlight, senior policy analyst at the Center for Immigration Studies, giving a speech to a Texas Tea Party group, and it isn’t pretty: Steinlight posited that the Gang of Eight’s immigration proposal “amounts to a plot against America,” warning that it...
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Steve King agreed with Jason Richwine when the latter famously claimed that Hispanics have lower IQs than whites — and apparently, King doesn’t approve of them going to school, either. According to Right Wing Watch, King was on a call-in show with Phyllis Schafly when he started railing about “free...
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CPAC came to a conclusion over the weekend, and anti-immigrant types like NumbersUSA’s Rosemary Jenks and Center for Immigration Studies’ Mark Krikorian complained that there just wasn’t room for them at the conference this year. “It used to be that at CPAC there was at least one panel that...
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Mar 6, 2014
CPAC starts today, but unfortunately most of our favorite anti-immigrant commentators won’t be there. Since the 2012 election, in which Mitt Romney was walloped because he supported self-deportation and lost the Latino vote, extremists have been a bit less welcome. Which is why Breitbart, for the second year in a row,...
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The Mastermind of the GOP’s politically catastrophic self-deportation strategy, Mark Krikorian, that leading anti-immigrant voice, posted another screed from his perch at National Review. Times are tough for the Tanton anti-immigrant network. The political tide has turned against them. So, it’s no surprise that Krikorian has reached a new-low, referring to Frank...
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One political hot topic today is the new biography of Fox News CEO Roger Ailes, entitled “The Loudest Voice in the Room” and allegedly published despite Ailes’ best efforts to squash it. It’s easy to see why he didn’t want people to read it: the book charges that he once...
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Choice for GOP is Clear: Be Defined by the Nativists or Be Competitive With a Changing American Electorate It’s been a bad week for the anti-immigrant movement. Actually, it’s been a bad couple of years. They are facing criticism from the right, their standing with Republicans is waning and...
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Rep. Paul Broun, a Republican Senatorial candidate in Georgia, is known for controversial comments like calling President Obama a communist and referring to evolution as a lie “straight from the pit of hell.” In an interview posted today, Broun broke bad again, in remarks discussing Georgia demographics and his electoral opponents. One particular...
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Two years ago, we were deeply involved in the battle against Alabama’s HB 56, the harshest immigration law in the country. HB 56 was a self-deportation bill that relied on racial profiling to harass immigrants in the state. But, as Benjy Sarlin notes, today, HB 56 is in shambles: “Illegal...
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It seems appropriate to end the year with Rep. Steve King (R-IA), since Speaker Boehner has been allowing him to dictate the House GOP’s efforts on immigration all year. Steve King is the guy who, in July, likened DREAMers to drug mules who have “calves the size of cantaloupes...
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