Kan. lawyer is architect of many immigration laws

[cory777]

Source: AP

TOPEKA, Kan. – When politicians and police across the country want to crack down on illegal immigration, they often reach out to the same man: a little-known Kansas attorney with an Ivy League education who is the architect behind many of the nation's most controversial immigration laws.

Kris Kobach could not attend West Point because of diabetes, but he regards his efforts on immigration as a substitute for military service.

"They can't call him trailer park trash, which is the kind of comment you hear about advocates on our side," said Michael Hethmon, director of the Washington-based Immigration Reform Law Institute.

Kobach helps draft proposed laws and, after they are adopted, trains officers to enforce them. If the laws are challenged, he goes to court to defend them.

His most recent project was advising Arizona officials on a new law that empowers police to question anyone they suspect of being in the country illegally. Critics say it violates the Constitution's provisions against unreasonable search and seizure by allowing police to engage in racial profiling.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100510/ap_on_re_us/us_immigration_architect

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Boy, this makes me feel good to be a Kansan!

NOT

[pinboy3niner]

1. What's the matter with Kansas?

From the link:

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Mayor Lou Barletta, of Hazleton, Pa., called Kobach in 2006 to discuss a proposal to fine landlords who rent to illegal immigrants and to deny permits to businesses hiring them. Kobach later defended the law in federal court.

The mayor said he contacted Kobach after a news report quoted him saying Hazleton had the authority to enact such an ordinance, contradicting other legal scholars.

"It really only took one conversation to realize that he truly knew what he was talking about," Barletta recalled.

Kobach largely wrote and then defended a similar ordinance in Valley Park, Mo., that was upheld by a federal appeals court.

Last year, he defended Farmers Branch, Texas, in a federal lawsuit targeting its landlord law. And this year, he represented residents of Fremont, Neb., outside Omaha, as they forced a vote on their own immigration proposals.

Federal judges struck down the Farmers Branch and Hazleton ordinances, but both are on appeal.

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So the guy who's already been struck down twice by the courts is some kind of legal genius? Bigoted charlatan, more like.

I can't wait until the courts take on his Arizona law. I only wish there were some kind of "three strikes" law that would apply to him . . .

His photo ought to be in the dictionary--next to the entry, "Disingenuous."

[opihimoimoi]

2. Attention whore getting tanned by all them tv lites

[Judi Lynn]

3. What a slimy, nasty, vicious, malicious man.

http://kansas.watchdog.org.nyud.net:8090/files/2010/03/Krazy-Kris-Kobach.jpg
The world needs far FEWER people like this.

Hope he burns out soon, stops trying to push himself and his sociopathic ideas into office, and ends up a bitter, broken brittle old man, muttering to himself as he is driven to his next Klan meeting.

What a shame there have been enough lost souls in Kansas to egg him on this far.

[no_hypocrisy]

4. Swell, George Babbitt, Esq,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babbitt_(novel)

[EFerrari]

5. This sounds like The Onion.

"They can't call him trailer park trash, which is the kind of comment you hear about advocates on our side," said Michael Hethmon . . ."

It's interesting that's the quote the reporter decided to use.

[peace frog]

6. Sounds like an attempt to distinguish him

from the teabaggers, ie "trailer trash" by their own definition.

[No Elephants]

7. Kris Kobach is trailer park trash.