With this year’s election results now mostly tallied, it’s time to take stock: how did the federal and state level politicians that represent the interests of the established anti-immigrant movement fare? For clarity’s sake, we define such representatives as politicians … Continued
Tomorrow, Friday, August 17, at some point after 9:00 AM, Kris Kobach will speak before the US Commission on Civil Rights in defense of Alabama’s HB 56, of which he is the author. And so, yet again, the Kansas Secretary … Continued
Over the past week, some of the Tanton Network’s core muscle is flexing behind Rep. Lou Barletta’s call for hearings/investigations into the “Obama Amnesty decree.” It all certainly seems to be a play by Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) … Continued
In a news release from Friday, June 29th, Rep. Daryl Metcalfe, the founder of the Tanton Network’s State Legislators for Legal Immigration, was quoted as having said: “There are no innocent illegal aliens because their very first step across the … Continued
In the wake of the “papers, please” provision surviving the Supreme Court, we need to be ready to stand strong against racial profiling, pre-textual arrest, and anything else anti-immigrant legislators might throw at us. As Joe Hill, the legendary labor … Continued
While the Select Committee on the State’s Role in Immigration Policy is on break until after the SB1070 ruling, some of the state’s most virulently anti-immigrant legislators have switched gears to blocking relief for victims of the North Carolina’s mid-century … Continued
Although marriage equality suffered a setback in North Carolina this week, not all of the news out of Tuesday’s elections in the Tar Heel State was bad. A few major players in the state’s anti-immigrant movement suffered serious setbacks. Ilario … Continued
Kris Kobach has referred to his work making immigrants’ lives miserable as something he does in his “spare time.” What “spare time” exactly does Kobach plan on using to run his new political action committee, Prairie Fire PAC? In case … Continued
Originally posted by Mother Jones in the March/April 2012 issue. The anti-immigration movement has come out swinging in the past several years, writing and proposing hundreds of restrictive state-level bills and berating a president who has deported more than a million people … Continued
Alamance County Sheriff Terry Johnson is a well-known poster boy for the 287(g) program. He has been trotted out by the FIRE Coalition, a group which builds grassroots support for the Tanton Network. Johnson has been a speaker for the … Continued