Are you kidding me? Yesterday we penned a blog post on how the relationship between Kris Kobach and Mitt Romney has taken a complicated turn, on account of how Romney has become the presumptive Republican nominee and now must quest after the all-important Latino vote—a demographic which hates Kobach....
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With Mitt Romney having all-but-officially sewn up the Republican presidential nomination, the consensus of pundits and party strategists alike is that we’ve moved into general election season. As Talking Points Memo noted, “After a week in which both sides aggressively courted women voters, this week is shaping up to...
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Pundits and Parties Acknowledge Importance of Latino Voters for 2012 With Mitt Romney having all-but-officially sewn up the Republican presidential nomination, the consensus of pundits and party strategists alike is that we’ve moved into general election season. As Talking Points Memo noted, “After a week in which both sides...
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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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