GOP Muffs Up Hispanic Outreach Effort Pretty Much Immediately

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http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/01/republicans-hispanic-outreach-efforts-ignore-elephant-in-the-room.php

Pema Levy- January 12, 2012, 5:32 AM 410

When it comes to Hispanic outreach, Republicans on Wednesday took two tiny steps forward and one giant step back. The RNC announced they were ramping up their outreach efforts to Hispanic voters and Mitt Romney released an advertisement in Florida in Spanish. But it’s hard to see either of those overshadowing Romney’s embrace of the architect of notorious Arizona and Alabama anti-immigration laws.

Wednesday morning, the Romney campaign announced the endorsement of Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach. “I’m so proud to earn Kris’s support,” Romney said in the press release. “Kris has been a true leader on securing our borders and stopping the flow of illegal immigration into this country,” which Romney said he was “very pleased to get.”

But that’s not entirely what Kobach is known for. Rather than secure the border, Kobach is the architect of a different approach. As is evident in the Arizona and Alabama laws he helped design, the goal is to drive Hispanics, and particularly immigrants, out of the country. As Kobach put it, according to The Daily Beast, “People often see federal immigration policy as a dichotomy between amnesty and deportation. But the most rational approach is a third one: you ratchet up the enforcement so that people make their own decisions to start following the law.” Or, as the legislation itself says, “attrition through enforcement.” The Alabama law — portions of which have been blocked in court for now — has been blamed for prompting children to drop out of schools and devastating industries that depended on Hispanic labor. He is involved in legislation and lawsuits across the country, including suing states for granting in-state tuition to undocumented students, and is planning anti-immigration effort in Kansas this year.

Kobach, with degrees from Harvard, Oxford, and Yale, approaches the immigration question from a legal perspective and puts on a measured air, but his rhetoric is extreme. Kobach currently serves as counsel to the legal arm of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), recently listed as a nativist hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

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1. TYP GOP always muffing up

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2. Mitt has also been highlighting the endorsement of Nikki Haley......

Nikki Haley Signs Immigration Bill, Opponents Speak Out


Columbia, SC (WLTX, AP) -- Governor Nikki Haley has signed off on legislation to crack down on illegal immigration, but the American Civil Liberties Union announced plans to challenge the bill before that even happened.

Supports and protesters showed up at the signing today to praise and sound off against the new law.

"I've never been humiliated before," said Greg Torrales, remembering a time he says he experienced racial profiling. "The only good part about it was that the officer apologized profusely afterwards," he recalled.

Torrales, born and raised in America, serves as President of the South Carolina Hispanic Leadership Council. He says the state's immigration crack down will result in more profiling and he's not the only one who thinks so. The ACLU announced plans to legally challenge the law for that very reason.


http://www.wltx.com/news/article/141747/2/Nikki-Haley-Signs-Immigration-Bill-Opponents-Speak-Out

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3. Wait for it.....

Mitt will change his position as soon as he sees that it is expedient and will blame the Democrats and the "liberal media" for distorting his position. The clock starts now.....