Anti-Immigrant Group Pulls Support For Lou Dobbs’ Presidential Run

[babylonsister]

http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/immigration/anti-immigrant-group-pulls-support-for-lou-dobbs-presidential-run/

Anti-Immigrant Group Pulls Support For Lou Dobbs’ Presidential Run


Wow. Lou Dobbs, putative presidential candidate, just can’t catch a break.

An anti-immigrant group is now making it official: It’s pulling its support for Dobbs and his presidential run, in the wake of Dobbs’ recent claim that he in fact supports a path to legalization for undocumented workers, saying that Dobbs “deeply offended his base.”

Previously, Dobbs had spent years blasting “amnesty” for illegals and trafficking in other anti-immigrant sentiment, prompting the long-running campaign to oust him from CNN. In a recent interview with Telemundo, however, he surprised a lot of observers by declaring he’d always been supportive of a route to legalization.

Dobbs’ new declaration is too much for the anti-immigrant group Americans for Legal Immigration, which just blasted out this release:

Americans for Legal Immigration PAC is withdrawing support for Lou Dobbs after years including the suspension of websites calling on Dobbs to run for President due to the perceived change in Mr. Dobbs’s stances on immigration issues.

“While Mr. Dobbs claims his positions have not changed, however, that is not the perception of many of our mutual supporters,” said William Gheen of ALIPAC…

“Lou Dobbs has deeply offended his base of supporters and ALIPAC is going to remain loyal to those Americans who support our existing immigration laws instead of Amnesty disguised as reform.”

The group, the first to call for Dobbs to run for president, has now suspended all support for his campaign. It had previously expressed its chagrin about Dobbs’ apparent change of heart; now they’ve officially yanked support for good.

Xenophobes for a Dobbs Presidency is no more! It’s unclear how his presidential hopes can recover from such a severe blow. Thanks to reporter Beth Marlowe for the catch.

[Shagbark Hickory]

1. The first step on the road to the whitehouse is to shake off any hint of radical ambitions.

Those that can't, never make it. Those that do, all end out in the same positions and nothing ever gets done.

[Lance_Boyle]

2. It is disingenuous to refer to a group opposing illegal immigration as 'anti-immigration.'

[babylonsister]

3. What would be a better term to call a group that opposes immigration? nt

[Lance_Boyle]

4. they oppose ILLEGAL immigration, not immigration.

You do nobody any favors by furthering the dishonesty of the original author. ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION is wholly distinct from IMMIGRATION. This concept is not rocket surgery, and the dishonesty about it by amnesty and open-borders proponents is appalling.