One of the lessons I hope the GOP doesn’t learn from last night’s elections.
Immigration News
British National Party: Sink Boats Of Migrants
July 8th, 2009
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BNP leader Nick Griffin shows America’s anti-immigration xenophobes how they do it across the pond.
Boats carrying migrants from Africa to Europe should be sunk to stop Europe being ’swamped by the Third World’, British National Party leader Nick Griffin has said.
Mr Griffin, one of two members of the extreme-right party elected to the European Parliament [...]
Paper Tiger…
April 9th, 2009
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It’s possible that I’m reading this wrong, but this story about the Obama administration pushing for immigration reform and the possible political backlash seems a little overwrought. That isn’t to say that some people have really strong feelings about immigration, but the sound and fury of the nativist faction seems time and again to be [...]
Illegal What Now?
February 6th, 2009
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Marc Fisher checks on the status of the latest nothingburger GOP wedge issue, immigration. Preview: No election, no big news.
Thanks, Tom Tancredo
November 5th, 2008
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2004 Hispanic Vote
55% Kerry 44% Bush
2008 Hispanic Vote
67% Obama 31% McCain
The GOP has alienated the fastest growing set of Americans, possibly for a generation.
Si Se Puede.
White Men, Turn Out The Lights?
November 2nd, 2008
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So, one of the smarter things Rove and Bush tried to do is bring minorities into the Republican fold. They had to see the writing on the wall. The core constituency of the Republican party, white males, is not growing. The major reason their political influence remains disproportionately high is due to a lack of [...]
Is Rush Limbaugh Going To Lose Another Race For The GOP?
September 17th, 2008
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Sen. Obama is now using the words of Republican booster Rush Limbaugh in an ad targeted at hispanic voters. It’s hard for the GOP to distance themselves from Limbaugh – this is a show the president, vice president, and president’s brother go on consistently. He keeps the hardest of the hard core base mainlined on [...]
The Fence!
September 8th, 2008
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At least in the primetime speeches anybody notice that the GOP seems to have forgotten all about the killer issue that was supposed to revive the party? That is, immigration? Or perhaps they decided the bleeding among hispanic voters was getting out of control. My guess is thats a genie they can’t put back in [...]
“Center For Immigration Studies”: Immigrant Farts Cause Global Warming
August 13th, 2008
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So, not only is the “Center for Immigration Studies” a racist white power group, they’re also refreshingly stupid.
The Tancredo Effect
June 12th, 2008
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The NBC/WSJ poll shows the hispanic vote going 62-28 for Obama, which echoes the similar double digit drop from the Gallup poll. The Republican party’s embrace of xenophobia may turn out to have the same demographic effect that adopting the southern strategy had for the GOP. It may be a generation before Republicans can contest [...]
McCain Steps Into Immigration Fight Again
May 22nd, 2008
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This will displease the rabid part of his base.
“Senator Kennedy and I tried very hard to get immigration reform, a comprehensive plan, through the Congress of the United States,” he said. “It is a federal responsibility and because of our failure as a federal obligation, we’re seeing all these various conflicts and problems throughout our [...]
Border Groups And The Neo-Nazis
May 8th, 2008
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More connections emerge. By some politician’s description these guys are the real hardworking Americans.
“Minutemen” Immigration Group Working With Nazis
May 4th, 2008
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Remember, when they tell you its all about securing the border and not about hating Hispanics that they’re working with Nazis.
Laura Ingraham: You Can’t Be American AND Latino
May 2nd, 2008
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On Fox News tonight substituting for Bill O’Reilly, conservative radio host Laura Ingraham made a point in a discussion of immigration to note that someone can be “American OR Latino”. Because surely nobody could be both, right?
Sometimes the mask slips and cons say what they truly believe. We must cherish those moments.
Even better is the [...]
Tom Tancredo Wants Border Fence Built North Of The Border
April 29th, 2008
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Tancredo is so aftaid of Hispanics he wants to put American soil on the other side of his wall. Idiot.
Republican Tom Tancredo supports the border wall. The U.S. representative attended the hearing in Brownsville yesterday.
During the hearing, he told the Brownsville landowners, “I suggest that you build this fence around the northern part of your [...]
Anti-Immigration Attack A Fake (Melanie Bowers)
April 9th, 2008
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The story smelled from the get-go. The little Michelle Malkin got busted.
A 13-year-old girl who claimed she was attacked by a group inside Athens Middle School was caught on a surveillance camera causing the injuries to herself.
The girl now faces disciplinary action from the school and will be charged with filing a false police report, [...]
Man Sends Death Threat To MD Governor O’Malley Over Illegal Aliens
March 21st, 2008
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Ah, the Republican base.
Walter C. Abbott Jr. has sent e-mails from time to time to the governor and state legislators complaining about losing construction work to illegal immigrants.
He never received anything but a form-letter type response.
This week, the 44-year-old Parkville man added something extra to his e-mail: a threat to strangle Gov. Martin O’Malley.
Within five [...]
